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14 of our Favorite WordPress Plugins

November 4, 2011February 22, 2011 by Bill Forsyth III

WordPress has grown vastly from a blogging platform in 2003 to being very popularly used broadly by bloggers, designers and developers alike. This largely is due to the fact that people looking for a simple CMS with lots of useful plugins have found it in WordPress. It comes with an arsenal of plugins available which can make your life so much easier. Your site can be customized to endless possibilities with the use of WordPress Plugins. WordPress offers a flexibility and versatility to enhance online portfolios, online galleries, photo blogs, news, magazine sites or even article libraries.

In no particular order, Here are our top 14 plugins that seem to make it into every site we build:

Woodworking Business

November 4, 2011February 21, 2011 by Bill Forsyth III

We were recently asked to look at a woodworking site. The quality of woodworking capabilities that was displayed was amazing, but unfortunately the site was not doing these artists any good.

The site wasn’t bad, but it needed a lot more content. If you turned off the images on the site, you had no idea what is was that they did. Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words, but the search engines are blind when it comes to pictures.

Form over function – Post Cereals

November 4, 2011February 20, 2011 by Bill Forsyth III

Since our son has a peanut and soy allergy, I was trying to find the ingredients of Post’s Honeycomb cereal. Shouldn’t be that big of deal, after a quick search I found this page: http://cereals.com/cereals/post_honeycomb/, and that’s where the fun began.

What is it?

November 4, 2011February 18, 2011 by Bill Forsyth III

We were asked to review the site of a business that had grown in many directions over the years. The website as well as the business had developed Severe Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Furniture Store

November 4, 2011February 10, 2011 by Bill Forsyth III

We were recently asked to look at a website of a furniture store. The site was very attractive, but it wasn’t generating any interest for the owner. We took a look at it and found a few things that concerned us.

Websites need to be more than pretty

November 22, 2011January 6, 2011 by Bill Forsyth III

Are you a web site owner looking to discover how to increase your website traffic? Maybe you are a potential website owner researching what it takes to build a successful, reputable, well put together website? Maybe you have already spent a lot of money on a website, which receives lots of page impressions due to constant traffic and paid for trafficking help. Yet you have made little to no sales? Or maybe no actual site activity? What could be the problem? Well the problem could “simply” be down to the actual page design of the website itself. What makes a website design user friendly?

5 Things every non-sadistic website should have

November 4, 2011November 27, 2010 by Bill Forsyth III

As you develop or review your website, make sure that you’re not annoying your visitors by ensuring these 5 items have been addressed.

Human Cannonball shot into a brick wall

November 4, 2011September 12, 2010 by Bill Forsyth III

Okay, the title might be a little gruesome sounding, but I want you to think of that image. Don’t go into too much detail, all you need to do is convince yourself that the experience would be most unpleasant.

When search engines send visitors to your site, they are coming in fast. One could say that your visitors are arriving “at the speed of thought.” If the page they land on doesn’t have the information they are looking for, they will feel like they’ve hit a brick wall.

The Perfect Way to Shop

November 5, 2020August 19, 2010 by Bill Forsyth III

Imagine that you need an obscure part from a hardware store (I know it’s not much of a stretch, but work with me.)

Keep your website on target

November 4, 2011July 19, 2010 by Bill Forsyth III

When one is preparing to build their website it is important to have the website geared towards only one subject. Not only will this help keep things appropriate for the reader, but it will help them not to be confused on what your website is about. Generating page views and an audience is important when it comes to the website that is being presented. Often more then not, websites tend to be cluttered with more the one topic making it difficult for readers to stay interested and focused on the website.