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01225 436109Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
After a few experiments* with things like Joomla, Drupal and a couple of other Content Management systems, we have pretty much standardised all our managed content websites on the WordPress platform.
* we call this the Dark Ages, about 5 years ago!
The question is why? Why is WordPress so good?Well there are a number of great reasons to use WordPress.
Firstly it’s FREE and Open Source and in constant development. This is really important. The World Wide Web is still a bit like the Wild Wild West out there and you need to make sure whatever software you are using is being properly maintained and protected.
Secondly it is immensely powerful. You can do pretty much anything with it from a simple blog site to a classified advert site with all points in-between. We’ve built shops, directories, and all sorts using WordPress plug-ins. WordPress scales up really well too, sites like Mashable are built on WordPress and we’ve used Amazon Cloudfront to speed sites up by delivering static content from the cloud.
WordPress lends itself to modern designs really well too, some of the premium themes are actually really good indeed too. If you take a look at some of the best design sites out there then about 40% of them are actually being built on WordPress. We can design sites for WordPress and be completely relaxed about being able to do the technical build of the website. (It helps that we are really good at it too).
WordPress can be a cost effective way of getting your own site built. Our £50 blog hosting package gives you a choice of the hundreds of standard themes that come with WordPress. For a few dollars more, you can choose a premium theme and get lots more functionality built in to your site. In fact if you pay us for a few hours of your time, we can help you set it all up and you can have a WordPress site with a premium theme that will look great, you can edit yourself and add unlimited pages, images and news/blog articles. We can also build you a custom design or fit your existing site design if you don’t want a change, but want the extra power.
One of the greatest things about WordPress is that Google loves it and WordPress loves Google back. WordPress is built from the ground up to work really well with Google; plus you can add Search Engine Optimisation plug-ins and things like the Google +1 plug-in to make sure your site plays the game in exactly the way that Google wants it played. Simply, WordPress sites perform well in Google and by adding regular news or blog articles you are doing exactly what Google wants you to do to keep your site fresh and important.
So we love WordPress. We are WordPress experts; we could write you a plug-in, build you a site and scale your site from an iddy biddy one to a great big one running on it’s own server with cloud delivered content. We can even teach you how to use WordPress yourself in our scheduled classroom training.
To find out more about our scheduled classroom training, our £50 blog hosting offer or to get us to help you build a WordPress site……drop us a line
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Godjira are pleased to announce the new Blogulator Package.
This is a £100 per month copywriting package for news or blog driven websites.
Our copywriters will contact you and pick your brains to produce beautifully written copy that will drive your on-line marketing.
Google loves news and it loves blogs (We love Google too). So if you have got a website capable of delivering news articles, then this is a great way to keep your copy fresh without having to spend loads of time and effort agonising over the words. Let our professional copywriters do that, it’s what they do best.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Godjira are very pleased to bring you this great special offer.
We have ten only of our WordPress blog hosting and domain packages available for sale this week at a bargain price of £25.
That’s half the price of our normal Blog Hosting package.
You need to act now to pick up on this special offer, we have only ten packages available at half price and the offer expires at the end of this week.
1) Search for a domain name here.
2) Search for a free WordPress theme here.
3) Pay with PayPal.
enter your chosen .co.uk domain name and custom theme names in the box
This offer is for the first twelve months hosting.
Choosing a blog hosting package from Godjira gives you full control over your domain name, your hosting and your blog software.
We use the best of breed blogging software: WordPress
One of the principle advantages of WordPress is that you are in control. Unlike remote-hosted scripts such as Blogger and LiveJournal, WordPress is hosted on your own Godjira supplied professional hosting space
WordPress is beautifully designed and really easy to use. You can be up and running with your own blog within an hour from start to finish.
You can use WordPress to post your own stories, ideas, rants, reviews, links, and pictures of your toothless Uncle Ernie at the wedding reception, if you choose.
Through the use of WordPress Themes , you can quickly change the look and style of your site. As you can see, its functionality exceeds or at least is similar to what is available in most blogging tools today.
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Go-go Wear is a shop website for a range of sexy shoes and boots.
We were asked to make it clean clear and simple to use with a focus on the products themselves. We were also asked to come up with a logo and branding.
We decided to use ZenCart, the free Open Source shopping cart software. Zen Cart is fully featured and has lots of available add-ons. Plus it’s free, which is the best price!
We came up with a logo design and site design that we felt reflected the nature of the shoes. Quite often these shoes are sold with a range of other products like lingerie and we wanted a look and feel that separated us from that market, hence the groovy chick in a seventies stylee.
We also wanted to promote the site using a blog, rather than throw it all in together and risk losing the clean nature of the shop site, we added a separate WordPress based blog at blog.gogowear.co.uk and then linked to two together by putting RSS feeds from each site on to the other. (Something you have to use a third party feed manager for, in this case we used Feedburner).
We also set up a Facebook Fan Page at facebook.com/gogowear and a Twitter feed at twitter.com/gogowear and populated both with the RSS feed.
We really like this one. It’s simple, elegant and yet technically very clever with lots of integration going on behind the scenes. The shoes also rock !
