Wordpress is one of the mostly used CMS in web sphere these days. Wordpress was initially built as a blogging platform in competition with Blogger. Now, Wordpress is not merely a blogging engine, but rather a full fledge Content Management System that can do much more than the designers and developers can think of. The availability of thousands of customized plug-ins makes the life of web developers a lot easier, and cut the cost for business owners.
You can create a highly customized website with unique design and extra-ordinary functionality with few clicks and your website can be a ready to go live within few hours. When we first used Wordpress for our clients, we were totally blown away with the functionality it provides and how feature rich and easy to use Wordpress was. Our total time and cost of website development were cut in half as soon as we started using it.
No matter, if your website is a corporate website, informational website or an entertainment website. Wordpress provides enough functionality to fulfill all your requirements.
Wordpress provides thousands of features, only few of them are listed below to make you understand just how powerful wordpress is.
1. Option to choose from thousands of Free and Paid themes.
2. Ability to create dynamic headers and backgrounds.
3. Complete branding options – including customized logo,etc.
4. Dynamic footer for different pages.
5. Nested Pages and categories.
6. Schedule posts and pages.
7. Tagging posts and pages to increase indexing and internal linking.
8. Option to choose a Time zone for your website publishing.
9. Different layout options – 1 Column, 2 Column, no Column, etc.
10. Custom permalinks and Meta tags options.
11. Option to add excerpt to each post.
12. Easily incorporate images and videos into your post.
13. Easily create photo galleries, portfolios, etc.
14. Easy integration and sharing with Social Media
15. Thousands of plug-ins available to fulfill all your needs.
Advantages of using Wordpress are endless and sometime overwhelming. However, what I think as the biggest advantage of Wordpress, is that there is tons of documentation, tips and tutorials available free on internet regarding basic and advanced usage of Wordpress. Even complete beginners in website development and designing can start using wordpress like a PRO with very little study and practice. Adding and editing posts in Wordpress is just like using a Word Processor program like MS Word.
Choosing the right theme sometimes become a very tough task for most of the website owners, as there are literally millions of paid and free wordpress themes available over internet and each one look better than others. There are some stores available where you can view, preview and buy premium wordpress themes at a very low cost. However, if you are short in budget, you can easily find a free alternative; as there are tons of stunning themes available that are completely free to use. If you have not started using Wordpress for your clients or for your own websites, you have to act now – you will surely be amazed.
Mike is a veteran SEO & E-Marketing professional, currently working in a top Web Design Dubai company, and serving local clients in UAE. Sitsols is offering Web Design, Web Development, SEO, cms development uae and SMS Marketing to Top Brands in UAE.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Web Design Dubai - Key Principles of Web Designing You Cannot Miss
If you are looking to get a new website built to promote your business online you might get puzzled since there are too much options available in this web world. Since there are too many options and choices to make from, we often overlook the basics and therefore make some fatal mistakes that make our business suffer in the long run.
In this article we are outlining four of those basic principles that we found people overlooking very often. This will help you avoid these mistakes no matter if you are a web designer yourself, or if you are a business man looking to get your website built by some other web designer.
1- Website with no goal
First of all, stay assured of everything that you want to do with your website. What are the business goals that this website can help you achieve? Keep those goals in mind throughout the process of website designing and development, this will make a lot of things clear and will keep you stay away from a lot of hassle and fancy stuff. Sometimes we get over excited if we see some new kind of widget or script that makes our website more fancy and advanced, but what you should have in mind is your business goal and what your visitors want to see on your website.
The best way to proceed with a website design and development process is to look at other websites in your target market. You can get an idea of what other successful business are doing to be successful instead of going for a fancy and over the top designs and widgets.
2- Thorough Design of all pages
Second thing that you should do is to create a final and thorough design mockup for all of your pages. Sometimes designers and design companies just create homepage designs and they keep the same layout for all the other inner pages, which is not always possible. Hence make sure that while in the first phase of your website designs, you make complete layouts for all of the pages and keep the possible expansion in mind and tell your designer that you might need to add more pages later. This will ensure that you don’t have to pay more in case you need to add few pages in future.
3- Clean Navigation
Third thing to do is to create clear and clean navigation menu for your website. The menu can either make or break your user`s experience on your website. So make sure that you don’t ruin your user`s experience by providing him/her with a complex and un-clear menu. Make sure that you provide them with a bread crumb, so that your visitor knows on which part of the website he/she is at and where to go after that. In case your website is intended to sell products or services online, make sure that cart and checkout links are prominent and clearly mentioned in your menu so that users don’t have to work hard to find them.
4- Useful Content
There is a famous saying in the World Wide Web that “Content is King”, don’t forget that. Keep in mind that user is coming on your website to buy something, and you have to provide them with useful and informative content about the product or service so that they can make the decision. With improper and irrelevant content your visitor would just close your website without browsing through. So put some effort and time in developing your content strategy and creating useful content for your website.
It does not matter if you use a web design company to design your website or your do it yourself, you have to keep all of the above mentioned points in mind in order to make your website successful.
Mike is Marketing Manager of top Web Design Dubai & Web Design Abu Dhabi Company and loves to write about Web Design, Web Development, SEO and other Web related stuff.
In this article we are outlining four of those basic principles that we found people overlooking very often. This will help you avoid these mistakes no matter if you are a web designer yourself, or if you are a business man looking to get your website built by some other web designer.
1- Website with no goal
First of all, stay assured of everything that you want to do with your website. What are the business goals that this website can help you achieve? Keep those goals in mind throughout the process of website designing and development, this will make a lot of things clear and will keep you stay away from a lot of hassle and fancy stuff. Sometimes we get over excited if we see some new kind of widget or script that makes our website more fancy and advanced, but what you should have in mind is your business goal and what your visitors want to see on your website.
The best way to proceed with a website design and development process is to look at other websites in your target market. You can get an idea of what other successful business are doing to be successful instead of going for a fancy and over the top designs and widgets.
2- Thorough Design of all pages
Second thing that you should do is to create a final and thorough design mockup for all of your pages. Sometimes designers and design companies just create homepage designs and they keep the same layout for all the other inner pages, which is not always possible. Hence make sure that while in the first phase of your website designs, you make complete layouts for all of the pages and keep the possible expansion in mind and tell your designer that you might need to add more pages later. This will ensure that you don’t have to pay more in case you need to add few pages in future.
3- Clean Navigation
Third thing to do is to create clear and clean navigation menu for your website. The menu can either make or break your user`s experience on your website. So make sure that you don’t ruin your user`s experience by providing him/her with a complex and un-clear menu. Make sure that you provide them with a bread crumb, so that your visitor knows on which part of the website he/she is at and where to go after that. In case your website is intended to sell products or services online, make sure that cart and checkout links are prominent and clearly mentioned in your menu so that users don’t have to work hard to find them.
4- Useful Content
There is a famous saying in the World Wide Web that “Content is King”, don’t forget that. Keep in mind that user is coming on your website to buy something, and you have to provide them with useful and informative content about the product or service so that they can make the decision. With improper and irrelevant content your visitor would just close your website without browsing through. So put some effort and time in developing your content strategy and creating useful content for your website.
It does not matter if you use a web design company to design your website or your do it yourself, you have to keep all of the above mentioned points in mind in order to make your website successful.
Mike is Marketing Manager of top Web Design Dubai & Web Design Abu Dhabi Company and loves to write about Web Design, Web Development, SEO and other Web related stuff.
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