As mentioned in the post about the week ahead, we are going to be digging into the SimpleCSS Template to learn how to change several areas of the page. In order to fully understand the underlying code and how the page layout is controlled, you must first know what you are looking at!
Things you are going to need:

FireFox Web Browser

FireBug Plugin for FireFox

FireBug for FireFox is an extension that allows you, in real time, to view all aspects of a page layout and design. The video below is a very …

Last week, I started posting a weekly review of not only what I have posted, but what I will be posting about in the coming week. All can be tracked in the Weekly Review category of posts.
First and foremost, I think my Flu is gone! Last week, I was still on the tail end of it… but it finally departed for good about mid week and I feel on top of the world again! Another key milestone for the past week was that I made the Top 100 blogs list …

As I mentioned in my post yesterday about the newest BANS Template for WordPress, the SimpleCSS Theme pack is ready for purchase on the Templates page!
This theme is actually a great starting point for anyone who may want to try and do a bit of template editing on their own as well, since it is very basic css driven, with the exception of the BANS code. Like the Flex-BANS Template, there are no changes to the actual Build a Niche Store software… you just drop in the theme package, configure a …

Everyone has been asking about a very simple and easy to modify css template for BANS and WordPress… here it is! With this very easy to use template for Build a Niche Store and WordPress, you have the ability to change everything!
I am finishing up a few of the cross browser issues on the site right now, but should have it posted for you all within a few hours.
http://simple-css.trybans.com/
Some Notables:

99.9% Image Free – The only images used on this site are BANS related for the listings, and a single logo …

Anyone who watched the installation video of BANS Flex yesterday, knows how much code work was involved in getting everything working in the right places. As I was preparing the Orange Crush BANS Theme for you all this morning, it became apparent that it just needs to be easier!
In order to make this as drop and go as possible, I want to revisit a few of the sections of code and develop a few ways to do this with much less editing.
In the meantime, I will let you know that I …

As I stated earlier this week, this video (Long overdue) walks through the process of installing and general configuration of the BANS Flex template for Build a Niche Store and WordPress. If you need to get the template, it can be on the BANS Templates page.

BANS Flex Installation Instructions 
I should also mention that since this was the first template released to you all, I took some extra steps (many include files) to be sure diagnosis of issues was easy to track. With this template, you need to edit about 12-15 …

I just got an email from my Wordze account manager…
I hope everyone is enjoying July.  As I had talked about to some of you we have
something really special for July that is going to knock your socks off!
Until July 14th you or your friends can get access to Wordze for ALL of July for
only $4, then in April you will only pay 38.98 a month to continue to use Wordze.
I have still not used Wordze enough to really know how to explain it to you all… but if you want …

After my last post about Google Search Volume Metrics, I just had to jump in and see a quick and easy way to use the figures alongside WordTracker, to build visitor based content! This is actually a 10-12 minute video walking through the process… only because I talk alot though! The actual keyword research can be done in less than 5 minutes!
The most important data we get comes in part from both tools. From Google, we get search volume and from the WordTracker database, we can see the number of …

All I can say is WOW – Google is sharing Search Volume Stats!
If you have ever used the Google Keyword Tool, you know it has been frustrating seeing nothing but small image graphs with the various amounts of volume. Guess what… it now shows actual search volume numbers!

If thats not too cool… I don’t know what is!
To learn more about the stats… visit the Google Answers section for the tool.

Google External Keyword Tool

Google Help Center Docs

This is the part that caught my eye:
Date range: The Approx Search Volume [Previous Month] …

Following along with my posting schedule for the week, I wanted to create a short video that explains how to install BANS into a site folder, versus on the main root of the domain.

Once Build a Niche Store (I used PJN Version for this video) is installed, setup is like normal!
Mark