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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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