It always amazes me, how many business owners do NOT have a Gravatar.com account. It’s free and you set it up once. It’s the system that WordPress uses to pull little photos of you when you leave a comment on a WordPress site. It can be your own blog, or any WordPress site where comments are visible. See the Image below that explains:
Those are all Spam comments, and they are easy to spot, because there is no picture with the comment.
Compare it to the following image:
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Christina and her team have finessed the tricky balance between challenge and encouragement through an on-line platform allowing for even the most technically-challenged entrepreneur to be successful with developing their own website. I have gained skills and confidence in designing my own site – and now maintaining it — all while having fun! I’m so glad I found you when I did.
If it weren’t for the Website Creation Workshop, I might still not have a website up and running! Christina goes through things step by step so that you not only know what buttons to click, but why.
The knowledge will continue to be helpful so that even if I have someone else manage updates on my website, I can easily go in and make quick changes myself and will understand what I’m asking someone else to do. This was a great way to get myself going!
After following Christina Hills online for a while I found her instruction to be very thorough, and honest in approach, so I decided to give the Website Creation Workshop a try. It happened at a time when I was struggling with another web designer, again, a grand total of four designers over a period of 15 years!!! I couldn’t be happier to not have to make those angry, frustrated calls anymore. Seriously!
Aside from things typically taking way too long, if they were even done, creative differences tended to be a problem for me as well. “What do you mean you don’t want to do that?” I find myself repeating over and over for things like “Why is the site not mobile responsive?”….. Never again!
Super empowering to not be subjugated to the will of another. With my vision, and the skills I’ve learned, I can build what I want, and change/modify it when I see fit, or necessary. Super big thank you to Christina and the WCW team for helping me get here!
I am very grateful for Christina and her team to develop such a wonderful and useful course!
The workshop is so well-organized that a non-technical person like me can learn and master at my own pace. It teaches almost anything you can think of while building a website. I also had chances to ask my own questions and get answers on live calls. I feel so empowered that I can put up my own beautiful websites, and produce content that I want to share with the world.
I love the precious “real estate” on the Internet that belongs to me, instead of building on the rented land such as social media. I used to work with web developers on websites, it’s very time consuming with numerous back-and-forth emails and calls on any design idea or change, let alone the cost, time delay, and headache associated with it.
I would recommend the Website Creation Workshop to anyone who wants to gain the freedom of building their own online presence. I did it in four months with about an hour a day. It is an incredibly freeing experience to learn from Christina. Thank you!
Christina Hills is a natural teacher! The Website Creation Workshop is a superb, comprehensive program to learn and implement technologies that are typically out of reach to non-techies. As a tool for every size business to establish an online brand, I’m confident that an investment in this program is worth the time and every penny spent working with Christina and her team. The support and guidance are invaluable!
Christina Hills’ Website Creation Workshop course is The Best online course I’ve ever taken! Here’s why: It’s way more than information-packed (which it is). It took me, step-by-step, to create my own website in a way that was thorough, and easy to understand, and supportive, and encouraging, and easy to follow … AND FUN!
Yes, there’s a learning curve, but after the first few modules, I was having FUN being creative, building my very own website exactly how I wanted it. I’m thrilled with the result, and I’m excited to show off my new site to a new and wider audience!
I want to deeply thank you Christina Hills and Team for the outstanding quality of the program and the kind and helpful assistance I received all along my Website Creation Workshop journey. I will keep being and attached member of Christina Hills Community and I’m honored to be one of her students.
I never thought I would be this happy with a website! I was stuck between paying AT LEAST $5000 for someone else to create a good website vs. creating a website myself that I wouldn’t really like. I didn’t want to pay that much, but I knew that I didn’t have the expertise to create even a bad website.
But with Christina’s Website Creation Workshop, I produced something that I am proud of and that is constantly getting me compliments! The step-by-step process is very straightforward and easy. Christina has “game-a-fied” the creation process so you see yourself making progress as you go. Not only do I love my site, but I’ve been able to even help some other people because of the training I’ve received!
The Website Creation Workshop has been extraordinarily helpful and made it fun to build a website – and in a shorter time than expected. Building a website used to be something I dreaded, but knew that I had to take care of as a new online entrepreneur. I feel proud of what I have accomplished, and empowered to maintain and improve the site on an ongoing basis. Thank you so much Christina and team!
Christina’s methodical and detailed approach to teaching WordPress is amazing! I had been afraid of WordPress before joining the WCW!! But Christina and her team make it all feel manageable, one step at a time.
I love my new site and I feel very proud of myself for pushing through my anxiety to learn so many new skills. There is no way I could have done it (or would have had the nerve to try) without Christina Hills and the WCW. Thank you so much!!
Christina’s Website Creation Workshop was FANTASTIC! As a graphic designer, I know how to make things look pretty! But I learned so much more about building an interesting and effective website.
Christina teaches at a pace that is slow and powerful, so all of the details have time to soak in. I highly recommend, and do to all of my entrepreneur friends, Christina’s training. It is EMPOWERING! Thanks!
I have attempted to learn WordPress many times with online tutorials, and continued to hit “roadblocks” where I couldn’t figure out how to move forward.
With the Website Creation Workshop, I was able to understand how WordPress works so much more clearly and was able to ask critical questions when needed. I am glad to have taken a chance on this course and am so happy to have completed this website – one that I hope will be the first of many more!
WOW! I can’t believe I created my own website! When I began this journey I was not sure I could really do it. After years of having paid others to create and maintain a website, I thought I might be getting in over my head. Thank God I found Christina and her team!
They have a fantastic program that allows you to move at your own pace and ask questions along the way. Everything is beautifully put together and well thought out. I think this is the only way I could’ve accomplished this. I did the work knowing someone was there to patiently guide and support me when I needed it. Thanks to Christina and her team for a putting together this beautiful program.
“I am not a technically savvy person. And I just completed a gorgeous website that I’m really pleased with! Christina’s WCW is extremely well organized and detailed. Even I could follow it with ease! I feel empowered, because the world of websites is no longer a big mystery. What a wonderfully surprising silver lining.”
Christina provides a wealth of information in a clear, concise, practical and fun manner. I tried to do my own WordPress website and ended up frustrated and with unsatisfactory results. After attending a free webinar about the Website Creation Workshop, I knew immediately that she was an excellent teacher, presenter and a person of heart.
I am so thrilled with my new website and my ability to control and grow my content over time. I ran into some challenges along the way, but Christina and her team were there every step of the way. That is a sign of a great teacher! Thank you Christina and I look forward to continuing the journey with you in other workshops.
One of the things I love about you and your company Christina, is that you run it from an abundant loving place, like you’re caring for your fellow human. Along with all your brilliant teaching skills, you make it easy to want to stay connected to you, Christina, because you have built in the space for people to be human and change their mind or go through hard things and you support us in that.
I have found you and your staff to be some of the best in the industry to work with when issues come up. I appreciate this about you and it’s what will keep me coming back!
Leaving a comment to see how my gravatar looks.
Heather,
woo hoo! Your pic shows up great! You may want to crop it in a little, so we can see your face more. But it’s great as it is
🙂
Great tool. Should save time. Thanks Christina Hills!
Ken,
it totally saves time!
I love you…
Thanks for the tip. I updated my Gravatar Account with all the other links too. Very Helpful.
Rick,
Looks great! yes you can add multiple email addresses too
Do you get spammed if you add email links to your Gravatar account?
Karen,
Not sure what you mean by email links. There are website links but not email links. You have an email address that you add. Go ahead and go to http://www.gravatar.com and open a free account and try it
Done….Thanks!
Craig,
You are rockin it! 😉
Let’s see if it works! Thanks for this info!
How about now? 🙂
Clair, My blog is set for comments moderated, that’s why there was a delay before your comment showed up. But yer lookin pretty 😉
I went to sign up and forgot I had an account! But forgot my password. Resetting it now.
Monique, looking good!
Thanks!
I had to edit my previous image..
I couldn’t for the life of me remember how to do it!
Hmm..still displaying the old one..weird.
Jessamina,
Sometimes there is a delay before the new one shows up. So you just have to give it time. And I think the new image will only show up when you leave new comments.
Thanks for the reminder.
Scott,
Nice to finally see your face 🙂
Let’s see how this shows up. Thanks for the video.
Joy, Showing up great!
Will be interesting to see if I show up–I think I do…
Barbara, nope not yet. If you just set it up, give it a couple of hours and come back and post a comment again
Thanks Christina. Good advice – as always.
Oops, wrong email for my gravatar.
Christina,
Does this mean that I need to set up a new gravatar account for each email?
Linda,
No, you can use the same Gravatar account and add many email addresses to it. I use about 5 different email addresses, and they are all linked to one gravatar. 🙂
I have had a gravatar for a long time BUT…. it didn’t dawn on me to add a comment so that when I do post it shows who I am and what I do. Thank you Christina for showing me what I have missed! 🙂
Deborah,
yes it will keep you from looking like a spammer when you post on other blogs. That way a biz owner will see you have a photo, and that you are a real person. It also helps in communication, cause we can see your smiling face!
Thanks Christina! I wanted to test if it picks up the new email I added to my Gravatar account.
Bobbye, yep! picked it up
Thanks Christina! Just checking to see if it works…
Joan, looking good…. 🙂
Okay…but will I be able to change the picture?
Cyndy,
cute coffee cup! 😉
I’ve never seen my gravitar photo so hope it shows up.
Kem,
not quite yet
I seem to have a gravatar account. Wondering if it works . . . ?
Looks like a yes. Thanks for the reminder!
Penny, yes that is a big YES! 🙂
Wonderful. Next I would like to learn how to protect my website from spammers.
Joel,
You can get the plugin Akismet.com (it will stop spammers), but it’s not free.
You can also add a capatcha plugin.
Here is one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/captcha/
or just once a week, look at your comments and delete all comments that don’t have a picture next to them 🙂 It’s the simplest method and very low tech 😉
Thanks for the confirmation about this
wondering about the connection with my email so I changed it
Vicki,
we see your pic now!
Does my picture show up?
Sierra Sue,
nope, your pic is not showing up yet. Check your email address inside gravatar.com
Great advise thanks Christina!
Lois,
Nice to “See” ya! 😉
Christine…
I enjoyed your blog post on the Gravitar even though I’ve been using it for quite some time. I was mainly snooping to get a look at your well designed blog site. I truly enjoyed it!
To your health,
Les
I just signed up at Gravitar. New to me, but it seems like a great idea.
Mitchell,
and your picture looks great!
Hi Christina,
Nice article! I love the opportunity to test our Gravatar.
Just checking to see if my gravatar pic shows up.
looking good
your gravatar showed up