WordPress Design & Development
About the author: Dan Cannon is the CTO of Nicasio Design. Follow Dan on Twitter.
With WordPress gaining in popularity at an exponential rate there are more and more sites out there running on WordPress. Some are running on pre-made themes, some are running on custom designs.
Regardless of how your WordPress Site’s design will be implemented the following 10 WordPress Design Tips will help you organize your content, get more return users, and have a better WordPress experience.
Here’s what I think you should do: I think you need to check out Nicasio’s latest site development, Inside Sonoma. Why? Because between the layout, the ease of use of the site, and the overall Sonoma experience, there is no better online tourist magazine.
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Wordpress is good for business. This is convenient because Nicasio’s business is designing Wordpress websites, and they’re great at what they do. Don’t believe me? Just take a look at their latest site launch, The Lighthouse Inn Bed and Breakfast.
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We’ve talked about this before: if you want a website go with Wordpress and if you want professionals to customize your Wordpress go with the guys at Nicasio Design. But, sometimes you need a list—reasons why Wordpress is truly the best for your business. Here it is. The top seven reasons why Wordpress is a perfect fit for your e-commerce business model.
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People love top ten lists. I’m pretty sure there are even top ten lists of the top ten reasons why people love top ten lists. As a recent college graduate (Go Dawgs!), I thought it would be fun to look at how colleges and universities are using custom Wordpress sites. It’s a great example of how experts like those at Nicasio Design can design your Wordpress site. Wordpress is so much more than blogging. Just take a look at what people at these colleges and universities were able to accomplish with a little bit of Wordpress design. In no particular order, these are my top ten.
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It seems like the beginning of a joke, right? Two horses and Wordpress walk into a bar. Cue the snare drum. You must be asking yourself, “Why would I pay someone good money to handle something as simple and easy-to-use as Wordpress?” Or maybe you are thinking it is not worth paying someone for something you could do yourself. These are valid thoughts, but let me let you in on a little secret. Why is it worth paying professionals? Because people judge books by their covers. Let me show you what I mean.
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“Creative thinking and the determination to push the limits on innovation are the hallmark characteristics of entrepreneurs. Having a strong presence on the Web gives business owners a great launch pad to showcase their innovative spirit and build brand awareness for the products and services they offer.” source.
The question is – what does a strong presence on the web look like? And once you have it, how do you maintain it?
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We just completed the launch of our latest project: an e-commerce website for Strong Learning, Inc.
Strong Learning had several needs going into this project. They needed a custom design, they needed a CMS that would allow them to quickly and easily manage their content, and they needed e-commerce integration into their existing 1 Shopping Cart account for both purchases and newsletter signups.
Through the use of WordPress, custom post types, custom taxonomies, and a custom navigation, all of these needs were met.
Screenshot after the break.
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This is a fairly unique website that we had the pleasure of building out. eTrain Today already had a logo and a basic idea of where they wanted to go with design, but needed help getting their new business venture up and running.
eTrain provides online training and testing for people that work with hazardous materials and other jobs that require various certifications. This site had to be part e-commerce, part membership management, and part distance learning.
We ended up building the site on WordPress. Through the use of a custom theme, the Shopp plugin, a custom, AJAX powered e-learning plugin (written by Nicasio) and integration with Articulate’s Presenter software we delivered a solution that is functional, intuitive, and easy to use (for both the site admin and test takers).
Screenshot after the break.
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We are proud to announce the launch of our latest custom WordPress Design and Development project.
R&J Public Relations required a robust content management system that allowed them to manage, edit and display several different types of data in innovative ways.
As there are several site editors, a simple and intuitive backend interface was required.
The solution we chose was a custom site using WordPress, built on a child theme of the TwentyTen theme. To accommodate the different data types being used on the site we used several different custom post types, each with its own custom taxonomies and custom meta boxes. This created a very intuitive and user friendly interface in the admin area of the site. Mix in some clean AJAX UI effects on the front end of the site (powered by jQuery) and you have R&J’s new, sleek site.
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On 8/21 I did a presentation at WordCamp Savannah entitled “Automating your WordPress plugin with WP-Cron”.
As promised here are the links to my slides and code demo:
Demo Plugin (zip of PHP file)
Thanks to all those who attended.
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It’s almost that time! WordCamp Savannah is this weekend (August 20-22).
There are supposed to be somewhere between 150-200 people attending.
I will be doing a presentation on “Automating Your Plugin With WP-Cron on Saturday at 1:30″
The rest of the speaker list is absolutely amazing and I’m honored to be in such good company.
If you’re coming we’ll see you there!
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