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By default, Atahualpa stripes all tables that it displays. While table striping is nice, I find it a lot better to specify which tables I want to use striping on.

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If you are using the Atahualpa theme, you may want to replace or remove the three blocks which display to the left of your site title.

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The theme Atahualpa can display banners if you wish it to. In fact, it can display random banners.

While there are quite a few options, this quick tutorial will cover setting up a single banner with the Atahualpa theme and the various settings within it which relate to displaying banners.

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While using the default display for WordPress is fine, I feel it is worth the little bit of extra effort to change the way WordPress creates your posts and pages.

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If you make changes to the themes you use or build your own themes, you should do so with care, especially if you are using a newer wordpress version that has syntax highlighting built into it.

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Unless you want to use the default wordpress theme ( which is fine for a basic blog, but not so great for a store traffic website ), you will need to select a suitable theme and then get it setup on your site.

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The fastest way to upload multiple files to your web server is typically to use FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

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If you are not sure which directory in a WordPress theme is the main directory for it, locate the directory with a style.css file in it.

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If you have a zip file containing something that you want to try out, but are not sure how to go about using such a file, you just need to extract it.

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While you are first setting up your web site, it is a good idea to tell search engine robots not to scan and index your site yet. If you wait until you have all of the basic sections of your store traffic site finished to let search engine bots index it, your site will most likely be treated a little bit better.

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