I’ve had a few clients recently ask me to setup a blogging system. I nearly always recommend Wordpress because it is one of the most common and powerful blogging systems available and is free to download and use. Setting up the blog is straightforward if you know how to FTP and create a MySQL database on your web hosting account. Once setup it is ready to go, you can start blogging right away.
The only issue in my mind is the blog design. The default design is quite bland and probably very common, yet there are thousands of free designs available that are far more professional and just look much better, so why not change it? This blog describes how to obtain and install a new theme.
RSS Feeds are a very useful and powerful feature of websites that are still little understood by website owners and internet users. Many website owners I meet have either not heard of them or do not know the benefit they could bring to their online website or blog or for their own benefit it keeping up to date with news and information online. This blog hopes to explain what RSS Feeds are the benefits to you either as a website owner or as a website reader for keeping up to date with information on line.
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There are so many websites still not being developed with the fundamental and necessary techniques that can dramatically increase their search engine rankings. Most of them are easy to implement. So I thought I would write a brief article on what I consider the top 10 best and fundamental techniques to try to improve search engine rankings. It is by no means a complete solution, and may or not work for you, but can be considered the bare minimum necessary techniques you should implement.
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I am big fan of the Joomla Content Management System. I must have developed over 50 websites using Joomla over the past few years. With so many advantages over other systems it is my CMS of choice. That said, it’s still not widely known outside the tech world, with so many website owners not hearing of it.
This blog is to provide some information about the benefits of using Joomla.
One of the biggest issues I have with some web and graphic designers is that they still do not provide website content management systems (CMS) for clients and are still developing static websites in plain HTML. That means separate files for each webpage with the design and content embedded into each file <shivers run down spine>. Not at all good for updating design or maintaining content.
Not all website owners are at fault… very often when networking and meeting website owners I explain what a CMS is and the advantages of using one and some of them have either not heard of a CMS or don’t know the advantages of using one. So many of these website owners have static websites and complain “I can’t update my website“, “the developer charges a lot to do so“, or “I cant get hold of the developer“. I get so frustrated hearing their woes because I know it does not have to be like this.
In my opinion it is vital, maybe even necessary, for a successful website to have a content management system. Without it the website will be left outdated or costly to keep updated. There are also other reasons that content management should be considered a requirement.
It should not cost more for a web developer to provide a content manager compared to a static website. In fact, it should even cost less due to the nature of design being separated from content if the developer is familiar with their CMS of choice. Only a few files need to be created to provide the design for every page.
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