Realtime Indexing, Peddling Mistruths and Pinging Google

One thing that really annoys me about the web design and development industry is so called professionals peddling mistruths. Take the post I read today; a local company offering "real time indexing" to its clients. There’s no such thing, but the version of it they present is available to everyone free, not a service to [...]

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Web Design FAQs: Can I have any Control over the Layout

This is the first web design FAQ; questions we are frequently asked when discussing projects with clients. Q: Is There Anyway We Can Control the Layout after you Design our Website? A: Yes.

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Tweet Slider V1 from Small Coders

Our wholly owned subsidiary Small Coders just unveiled its first snippet of free code based on a client project. The firm was asked to display a user’s recent tweets on a website, but not vertically as there are 100 widgets for, but horizontally. The firm came up with Tweet Slider V1, a jQuery based Javascript [...]

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WordPress 3.0: Theme Customisation APIs Exciting and Daunting

The release of WordPress 3.0 contains something that is both exciting and daunting for developers. The new APIs for creating customisable themes: They are exciting because they will allow us developers to make themes customisable much more easily than before. But at the same time it is daunting because it is a lot of new [...]

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Default WordPress No Good for Property Websites

In my career as a web developer, I have seen WordPress perfectly powering a great number of different websites. In fact, WordPress can be easily modified to be a website replacement for most types of websites, except property websites. Don’t get me wrong I have seen people attempt to use WordPress to power a property [...]

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Another Problem Solved with a Customised WordPress CMS

I wanted to share with you another example of WordPress’s versatility as a website CMS. I was recently asked to put a website online as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Immediately WordPress with a customised free theme, sprung to mind, but the client wanted to have an enquiry form on the site. Now, I [...]

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How to Make a Seamless Transition from Hand-Written CMS to WordPress

In my last post for this blog I explained how WordPress could be used as a full website content management system. Today I am going to explain how it can be incorporated into an existing website, and how it can replace a hand-written CMS.

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Using WordPress as a Full Website CMS

WordPress is among the best content management systems that are currently available, not least among its benefits is the fact that it is completely free. WordPress is misconstrued as simply a blogging platform, when, in reality it can be used to power an entire website and blog.

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Why Every Business Needs an Online Presence

Something funny happened the other night and it completely changed my thoughts on the need for an online presence in business; it made me believe that absolutely all businesses need, not only a presence online, but an online presence. People are starting their search for knowledge on more and more things online, so to not [...]

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Creating the Ultimate WordPress Urls for SEO

In the last few weeks I have seen several tutorials claiming to show how to create an SEO url structure in self-hosted WordPress powered blogs and websites, only to find that all they did was go into WordPress settings and select one of the click and go options (fig 1). Luckily I already knew how [...]

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