WordPress is, by far the heavy hitter in open source content management systems (CMS). With a WordPress CMS all the power of a world class online presence is delivered, stable and at a click of a button. Not only does WordPress provide the ultimate in content management it also is highly extensible using a myriad of freely available plugins for your site. Everything from event calendars to photo galleries can instantly be integrated into your web presence giving you new ways to interact with your target audience.
Moving a WordPress site without FTP access
We got involved in a project where we were needing to move a WordPress site, but we didn’t have FTP access to the server that the site resided.
Going on the theory that “there’s a plugin for that”, we found a new plugin to add to our arsenal of handy plugins: WordPress Backup (by BTE).
14 of our Favorite WordPress Plugins
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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.