In my previous article “Why I think that template based websites are a good idea” I discussed the possibility of creating a website from a well constructed template or wordpress theme. Using a template (or a theme as it is called in Wordpress) is especially useful when you choose to build a dynamic site with Wordpress. read more
As I was looking for a new wordpress theme for the creation of a new website, I did a thorough investigation of the best wordpress themes for business websites. I focussed mainly on cms style websites for small businesses, magazine style website for resources sites and portfolio websites. As I like a clean style and flexibility, most of these themes feature a clutter free interface and lots of functionality and ability to customize. This is my shortlist below; it will be hard to choose between them. read more
A premium wordpress theme can be an enormous timesaver when you want to have a high quality website up and running quickly. But make sure that you know what you want to achieve with your site before you buy. Otherwise you may end up having to do a lot more modifcations than you expected (or start all over again if you are not happy with the result) and your template may prove not to be such a time saver after all. read more
Do you have ideas for a good website but don’t know where to start about getting one? Then this website can help you get started. What are the steps involved in getting a new website?
The start of a new year is a good time to reflect and set your goals for the upcoming year. Now you may have done this before and you may have been disappointed that so few of these goals were actually achieved. So how can we set goals that can be accomplished? If you can try to answer the below questions for yourself you may be a lot more successful in achieving your goal. read more
What determines the price of a website?
Well, the principle is simple the more hours your web developer spends on a website the more it will cost.
So what do we spend those hours on and how can you minimise the cost of creating a website? To illustrate, let’s go through the various steps of creating a website and see where you can save costs. read more
Not necessarily. In order to understand which visuals or tools you will need for your site it can be good to look at your intended audience. What kind of people are they and what would they respond to? read more
The corelink website is a good example of a website that is easy to navigate, quick to load and clear in its purpose. On various points in the site it also encourages the client to take action.
Most businesses these days have a website. But how many of these are actually producing the results that they wanted? All too often a pretty looking website is created that noone can find or when it does get found, it is left within seconds. So why is this? In many cases it’s because not enough thought went into the usability of the website. read more
Website builders are online tools that allow you to build websies “in minutes”. They take you through a number of steps and after that you have a website! No programming is needed although in some cases it takes some time to figure out how to use these builders. You usually pay a monthly fee for hosting and access to website admin panel. Website builders can be a lot cheaper than hiring a website designer but will it also generate results? read more
Starting a site from scratch basically means that you will have to design a site, then translate it into code and upload it to the web. If you are not a coder then a very good tool to do this is Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
I am a big fan of hostgator hosting and am using it for most of my sites. They are reliable and offer good support. You can use it for all your sites (not just a wordpress site) but if you use the coupon code wordpress you will get an amazing discount. Highly recommended!
