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Wedding Invitation Wording: What to say

GloTaryn — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:20:28 +0000

This is the third in a multi-part series. We hope you find the advice in this series helpful as you navigate the world of Save the Date cards, wedding invitations, and wedding websites! The time to finalize RSVP wording and send out wedding invitations is fast approaching – eek! Although you’ve likely sent Save the Date cards, giving your guests plenty of notice on the final wedding details helps them to cement their plans. If any of your are traveling to your wedding, they may need extra time to prepare, so don’t feel pressured into waiting to send those invitations out! Your wedding invitation design is definitely important. However, your wedding invitation wording also sets the tone of your celebration, while giving guests important information about the who, what, when, where and how. Kristin and Bröen captured the beachy vibe of their destination wedding with their wedding invitation wording – see the live version here. They honor all the people who made the day happen—showcased by “together with their families. Their intentional choice of the words “held on the beach” subtly tells guests the dress code is beach-appropriate clothing and footwear. Because their online wedding invitation linked directly to their wedding website, […]

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Helpful how to’s when editing your paperless wedding invitations and wedding website

GloTaryn — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:30:46 +0000

It dawned on me today that you might not know about our Glö YouTube Channel. Here you’ll find several helpful how to’s, including: How to add a picture to your Glösite (wedding website) pages and more advanced (but still not difficult) features like: How To add an image that links to another webpage (this is great for registry pages…)

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Add a flickr slideshow or photo to your wedding website

GloTaryn — Tue, 24 May 2011 11:00:31 +0000

I’ve written before about adding a Picasa slideshow to your Glö wedding website, but I know that lots of you also use flickr to store all of your fabulous photos. We don’t like anyone to feel left out, so here’s a similar tutorial on how to add a flickr slideshow to your Glösite. This “how to” will focus on adding a slideshow of a particular album I have on flickr, but the same principle applies to adding a slideshow of your photostream or an individual photo. 1) Go to your flickr account and on your photostream, set or album you’d like to add, click on an individual photo. 2) Click on the three dots in the bottom-right corner and choose “View Slideshow” from the pop-up menu 3) This takes you to a black page with your slideshow or photo in the middle. Click on “Share” in the top-right corner of this page 4) You can either select the code from the “Grab HTML code” box or else you can click on “customize HTML code” below to change the size of your slideshow 4b) If you click on “customize HTML code” make your selections (I like the medium size for Glösites) […]

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Adding a facebook badge to your wedding website

GloTaryn — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:30:10 +0000

Do you pretty much live on Facebook? Me too. Want lots of people to like you? Me too! Here are the steps you can take to add a facebook badge to the “Contact Us” page on your Glö wedding website 1) Go to facebook and view your profile 2) Scroll to the bottom of the left column and click on “Add a badge to your site” 3) Click on “Edit This Badge” 4) Customize what you’d like to have on your badge and click ‘Save’ 5) Click on “other”, then highlight and copy the code below 6) go to glosite.com > “Manage Glösite” > “Edit pages” and click on “edit” for your Contact Us page Scroll to the bottom and paste the code into the widget box or else use the HTML button to paste the code into the text area of your page. Then click “save page” 7) View your Glösite and see how it looks!

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Adding a Picasa slideshow to your Glosite

GloTaryn — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:00:26 +0000

UPDATE: Now that Picasa is linked to Google+, some of the features have changed slightly. The directions below are still valid if you work via the old Picasa web interface, which you can find but cutting and pasting the original link into your browser: https://picasaweb.google.com/home I’ve had a few questions lately about how to add a Picasa slideshow to one of your Glösite pages. In case others are wondering the same thing, here’s a quick video that should help. (for some reason, the video appears to go faster than the recording, but I hope it’s close enough to make sense!) To recap, the key steps are: 1) Ensure your album (or image) has the right visibility settings: Either Public or Visible to anyone with the link 2) grab the embed code from the lower-right side of the picasa page for that album or image 3) Paste the embed code onto your Glösite page – either into the widget box or using the “html” button of the text editor 4) Save your page, and view!

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Adding a forum for conversation to your wedding website

GloTaryn — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:16:12 +0000

Your wedding website is a great way to build a connection with your guests, but what about when your guests want to connect with one another? As we say around Glö HQ – there’s a widget for that! In this case, the widget is a forum. A forum is a perfect way to facilitated conversations between guests who may not know one another, be friends on facebook, etc. It’s perfect for organizing rides from the airport, spare beds in hotel rooms, and other travel logistics. One forum provider who appears popular with Glö-bies is Nabble. With a few steps, you can get a forum up, running and embedded onto a page in your Glösite. Here’s a quick overview: 1) sign up for a Nabble (or another forum) account 2) Customize appearance, etc. 3) Grab the embed code 4) On your Glösite – choose a page where you’d like to add your forum. Click on the “html” button on the text editor and paste in the code, or paste the code in to the widget box at the bottom of the page. Save 5) Enjoy your forum!

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How to: Adding photos to you Glösite is easy-peasey

GloTaryn — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:56:51 +0000

I’ve had a few questions about how to spice up a Glösite with extra photos in the past few days. So I made a handy-dandy video explaining exactly how to do it. Just in case you have the same question..I hope you enjoy!

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Tweet Tweet glosite background

GloTaryn — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:16:00 +0000

Do you know that you can use most twitter background with your Glösite? There are tons of free twitter background available on the web – giving endless Glösite design possibilities. Love that! Here’s an adorable example I found on Free Twitter Skins – this one is called Winged Messenger. I uploaded the twitter design as the Glösite “background image” – anchored left. And then chose an existing Glö design for the “page design.” I think it’s a perfect match! Are ya diggin’ it?

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Custom HTML on Glösite pages – did ‘ya know?

GloTaryn — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:25:25 +0000

We recently asked several Glöbies to fill out a survey to help us understand what you think about Glö and how we can improve. One comment I saw was a request for custom HTML on Glösite pages. The person didn’t leave their name, so I thought I’d just broadcast to everyone to let you know that this is possible! Using the HTML function, you can add photos, widgets, text, etc anywhere within the Glösite page. If the idea of HTML totally scares you, you can also continue to paste in widgets in the “widget box” – these will simply appear at the bottom of the page. Let’s go through a quick step-by-step using a PacMan widget that I found on Widgetbox (My total go-to source for fun widgets!) Go to ‘Manage Glövites’ > edit page and scroll down to the text box area. Here you’ll find a button labeled HTML. Click that bad-boy and another window will pop open. Now, flip over to the browser window with the widget you’re coveting and click ‘get widget’ A box will pop up with the code you need to capture, so click ‘copy’ Now, flip back to the browser window with glosite.com open […]

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