Tag Archives: Website Design

A peek inside a simple website design

Posted on April 11, 2012 by in Examples, Website Design

I’m really excited today to announce the re-development of our main company website Web Circle. Here is a screenshot of the final site which you can click on to be taken to the site.

The new 'simple' Web Circle site.

In re-designing this site my focus was on simplicity. We started working on it about 2 months ago when I decided I wanted a site that represented the way we approach designing and building sites and apps. I also wanted to do this without overloading the site with content.  Read More…

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WordPress menus

Posted on July 4, 2011 by in WordPress training

Once you’ve mastered pages, you’ll want to know how to manage the menus in your site. WordPress menus are fairly straight forward particularly with the new menu features introduced in WordPress 3.

There are 2 ways of working with menus in WordPress. In this video I run through both options.

If you’re not a youtube lover  right click and choose Save As for the MP4 version.

I would suggest where possible when setting up WordPress menus, to use the newer method which is the inbuilt menu manager.

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Adding and editing pages in WordPress

Posted on July 4, 2011 by in WordPress training

This is one of the first things people will want to do once they take over ownership of their websites, modify existing pages and create new ones. Luckily it’s super easy check out this video.

If you’re not a youtube lover  right click and choose Save As for the MP4 version.

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What is WordPress and why should you use it?

Posted on July 4, 2011 by in WordPress training

This video is my general introduction to WordPress, covering basic topics like why choose WordPress and what is WordPress.

If you’re not a youtube lover  right click and choose Save As for the MP4 version.

What is WordPress

WordPress is free software that enables people to manage their own blogs and websites. Check out the video for more on what is WordPress.

Why choose WordPress?

The video identifies 3 main reasons for choosing WordPress including the fact that WordPress is free, it’s really simple and it’s popular (which as benefits).

 

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The 10 best WordPress plugins for small businesses

Posted on June 22, 2011 by in CMS

We have been using WordPress for quite a few years for our small business websites. In this post I’ll run through our 10 best WordPress plugins for small businesses (well it’s slightly more than 10 but there are 10 main plugins or plugin groups – some of them with a few options).

These are the plugins we always install.

Contact form 7 – This is what we use for our contact forms, it’s easy to use and you can easily just add the default form to a page and set up a contact page instantly. I haven’t spent a lot of time testing other form extensions but this one seems to do the job nicely. It also speaks to Akismet (see below) to reduce spam.

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