One of the main ways for your visitor to navigate through your website is the Sidebar. In the sidebar of your WordPress layout, you can place a lot of widgets. However, what you really need in there are the things that will help your visitor to get a clear image about the topic your website is about. Besides that it should show them how they can find what they are looking … [Read more...]
WordPress has come a long way since its beginning, it was created as a blogging platform but is now way beyond that. You can easily make WordPress look like a website with just a few configuration and theme options. With the latest versions, especially version 3.0 where the custom menu feature was introduced you can use it for any kind of website. Using WordPress custom menu's you can … [Read more...]
If you login to your WordPress website you will see a notice about the new WordPress 3.4 release. If you want to start a new WordPress website, this release is the new stable version. There are several great improvements in this release, like the theme preview function. With this option, you can check how your website would look with a new theme, and you can change configuration options … [Read more...]
Brain Gardner, WordPress theme designer extraordinaire, just announced the release of a new theme specifically targeted to Real Estate Agents. This theme comes with great features like automatic thumbnail creation and special pages for your real estate listing. There are separate writing panels for your listings with fields for price and other items pertaining to the property. You write … [Read more...]
Brian Gardner is showing off the redesign of his Magazine Theme, which is already a classic. If you look at the new features in the header, you can see why this is going to be a great theme to use for Building a website with WordPress. The tabs at the top are great for extra pages, and the category links will make it easy to "theme" your site. In Brian's post, he also shows the new … [Read more...]
I was just thinking about this project of Building a Website with WordPress and the use of a Magazine Style Theme. As I was working on the manual for the use of that special kind of themes, I suddenly realized that the whole project was not going to work.... You see, if you have a customer that is not as WordPress and Computer savvy as you are, you need to explain how this thing with … [Read more...]
