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Upgrade WordPress – should you click the button?

Katie — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:43:11 +0000

Clients often ask us what they should do when they see the notice in the WordPress admin prompting them to upgrade WordPress to the latest version.

Upgrading WordPress yourself can be as simple as clicking a button, but things can go wrong. As a WordPress designer, I kind of take it [...]

DealMaker Academy

b2madmin — Sat, 19 May 2012 12:32:31 +0000

Customised WordPress theme

How to create WordPress SEO titles, descriptions & XML sitemaps

Katie — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:45:14 +0000

WordPress web design tip: Expanding the content editor box

Katie — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:13:31 +0000

In the first of a series of WordPress training posts and video tutorials, I’m going to give you a simple tip that will make it easier to work with pages and posts in WordPress.

Pre-designed WordPress themes: Good enough for professional websites?

Katie — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:36:57 +0000

In Is web design as we know it dying? Connor Turnbull shows how web design has changed direction:

“It’s no longer about creating a static page with a heading, some text and a couple of images to boot. However, the biggest change [...]

Should you optimise your website for mobile?

Katie — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:25:23 +0000

More and more clients are asking us about optimising their website to work on mobile and tablet devices such as iPhones and iPads. This is a good idea – Ofcom say that 23% of the world’s population use their phone for internet access – for 15-24 year olds, the figure [...]

A lament for the ones who get away

Katie — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:18:35 +0000

It’s always disappointing when a potential client chooses another web designer. We’ve spent time talking with them, listening to their requirements, planning the best way to approach the project and preparing a written proposal – so by then we’ve started to build a relationship with the client and are looking [...]

Perspective Joinery

b2madmin — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:56:15 +0000

Blog, gallery & social integration

Cricket Jobs

b2madmin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:20:36 +0000

PSD to WordPress theme

Why WordPress developers are the future of web design

Katie — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:12:24 +0000

Reading through back issues of .NET magazine, I noticed that there’s very little emphasis on WordPress developers. This is pretty strange given that 15% of the world’s top million sites are developed in WordPress.

Most of .NET’s articles seem to focus on designing and coding [...]