In this blog post, I would like to pay tribute to the best Online Content Management System (for me) which is WORDPRESS.
WordPress is a well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL.
Started in May 2003 by its co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as the successor to b2/cafelog. Launched with just a handful of users, Wordpress is now used by over 62.8 million websites.
The birth of Wordpress was encourage by the announcement that b2/cafelog would stop it’s development and Matt Mullenweg who’s using b2 as the primary blogging software on his sites announced that he was going to create a similar software from the b2 codebase. He was later contacted by Mike Little and they developed a modern folk software of b2 which was current with web standards.
WordPress 0.7 , the first version was released on May 27, 2003. It was the upgrade from b2 version 0.62. It was XHTML 1.1 complaint, had new default templates and a new admin interface.
Succeeding versions was released in a few months time for upgrades and bug fixes. …
Almost everyone turns to the internet to search for almost anything. More and more people are using search engines to look for services and products instead of the yellow pages for the simple fact that it’s easier. Statistic shows that Over 60 percent of consumers search for a local business on the Internet, and only 33 percent use the yellow pages.
The main reason why a business should have a website is advertising. Advertising has evolved from print media to television and radios and it has now reached to computers. And every business should keep up with the latest trend of advertising. I mean why not? Isn’t advertising very important in getting more customers, thus enhancing your business and gaining more profit. Plus it’s a 24 hours a day 7 days a week advertisement available anywhere in the world.
Every business owner should take advantage of the powerful marketing opportunities that exist in owning a website. Internet advertising is more targeted to a specific audience. The clients who visit your website are there because they have a specific interest in your company’s …
Any Internet marketing strategy needs to take advantage of searching. Search engine optimization is the first place to start this process. This video covers the details of how to optimize a specific web page for search engines.
Enter your username and password, and then click the Log In button.
At any time, you can click the Visit Site button at the top of the page to return to your site. You might want to bookmark the link you entered in Step 1 for future reference.
Create a Page
Pages are for content such as About Me, Contact Me, Legal Information, Company Information, etc. Pages are often used to present information about your company or your site that is somehow timeless — information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content. (By the way, it’s a good idea to always have an About page and a Contact page — see this advice from Lorelle.) You create pages by clicking the Add New tab under the Pages heading. Add a title and content, and then click the Publish button. At …
I use WordPress on all of my clients’ websites, unless they specifically request another content management system, and here is why:
Publishing
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform. It allows you to add and remove pages, edit content, add blog posts, review comments and more, all within a well designed and regularly updated web interface. The workflow is intuitive, and it stays out of your way, giving you only the tools you need, and only when you need them.
Design
It allows for entirely custom design layouts and unlimited templates. With WordPress, it’s simple to create one template for the home page, another for regular pages, another for blog posts, etc.
Extendability
There are, as of this writing, 4,245 available plugins on the WordPress website. Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine, from shopping carts to image galleries to contact forms.
Reliability
The WordPress website claims over 22 million downloads of the software. With this many users, they offer almost endless plugins, fantastic documentation, active user forums, and regular maintenance and feature updates. Many web designers know WordPress so you can feel secure that you will always …
These prices assume you are a business or organization looking for a site with a professional design and the ability to easily add/edit/remove pages and blog posts. If you are looking for something else, such as e-commerce capability or highly customized features, we will have to negotiate further.
At this time, a standard website is around $1500. A website at this price comes with a rock-solid system to update your website for free, using any web browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox), from any computer with Internet access. You also get a simple (but beautiful) design and a fully featured blog. You get a website that is set up with SEO (search engine optimization) in mind, and Google Analytics installed to monitor how many people are going to your site and how they got there.
In most cases, bells and whistles like extra plugins, unique page designs, email setup and extra graphics push the price up into the $2000 range. From there, the price can continue rising if you need more custom work. Any extra work is billed at $75/hour, and we will give …
I studied Art & Design and Speech Communication at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and briefly worked toward a Masters degree in Architecture at Columbia University in New York. I eventually withdrew from my graduate program, recognizing that I was entering the wrong field. I had done web design as a side job for several years, and realized that I was far happier creating websites than making blueprints and site plans.
I worked at several web design firms upon returning to Chicago. These jobs didn’t offer me the control over my projects that I wanted, and often produced sites in chunks, with designers and developers having little internal communication. For these reasons I started my own web design firm, and I am now free to take on any project I want and can see it through from beginning to end. I truly enjoy my job, and I take pride in my craft and build every website as if it were my own.
Many of my first time clients don’t fully understand how websites work, but they need to make an educated purchase nonetheless. If you’re in that category, here’s everything you need to know:
If you want to build a website you will need to rent space to store the actual files that make up the website; this is called hosting. I do all of my hosting through Telana, and if you don’t already have a host I can set up hosting for you through their secure servers. I charge $100/yr and offer the advantage that you only have to deal with one person for all of your website needs.
Along with a web host, you will also need to rent a domain name, such as www.google.com. You can rent a domain name at domain.com, with most priced around $9/year. I can set this up for you if you prefer.
Once you have these two requirements, hosting and a domain, your website can be installed.
The process of creating the website goes something like this:
We discuss the requirements and goals for the site, in terms of both design and functionality. Once …
