We make running your website or blog easy.
W ordPress is the leading open source blogging and content management sytem platform and we simply love making it do what you need it to.
We create custom designed WordPress themes that work as corporate websites, awesome blogs or a combination of both. There have been projects where we have turned WordPress into a specialised directory, a shopping cart and a membership platform. This website also runs on the WordPress platform.
Another great thing about WordPress is that there are numerous plugins available to make doing things a whole lot easier and better. We make use of quality plugins with every WordPress website we create.
We include these plugins with every new custom designed WordPress website we create for clients:
Custom Admin
We create a customised admin section for your WordPress theme and remove all the uneccessary stuff to make it easier for you to use.
All in one SEO Pack
This is a very improtant tool for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). With it you are able to customise every page title, description, keywords and a host of other things.
Google XML Sitemaps
This handy tool is fantastic. It submits an XML version of your sitemap to Google, Bing (formerly MSN Live Search), Ask and Yahoo every time the content of your website or blog changes. It makes a huge difference in terms of search engine rankings because the search engines always know when you have added something new. So they pay your site another visit.
Google Analytics
What is the use of having a website if it is not effective? A great way to measure what is happening is using a free tool from Google called Google Analytics. With the help of a plugin we are able to track and measure all the visits, page views, searches, keywords, regioins etc. to your website. Another great feature is that it includes a daily snapshot on the admin dashboard. So you are able to see what is happening daily.
Quick Cache
A great looking website that takes forever to load is incredibly frustrating and may cause you to lose visitors. As with most dynamic applications running on a PHP base (WordPress is no exception) bages are built by the server on the fly as a user requests them. This can cause some pages to load slowly especially when a website starts attracting a high volume of traffic. With the help of this handy plugin we are able to cache the website files on the server. Which means that the site is not being rebuilt at every visit. It saves on load time and system resources, which is a win for you and for us. We set it to refresh the cache every hour, but it is automatically refreshed everytime you update your content as well.
Contact Form
A contact form is a vital part of any website. This handy tool helps us to make sure we have a lightweight form that works everytime. It also includes a capcha image generator which stops spam bots from sending you rubbish emails from the site.
Mobile Friendly
Mobile phones have become a huge player in the way people have started to browse the web. There are many more people that have mobile phones than those who have access to computers. So it naturally makes sense to cater for mobile users as well. This plugin creates a mobile friendly version of your website that displays cleanly accross mobile phone devices.
We now have WordPress video tutorials added directly into the admin of all of the WordPress websites we create. This makes using the WordPress admin even easier than before.
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