Jul
18
2010
Am I a Calgary WordPress Developer and Blogger?
Author: Stuart R. CrawfordProbably not…but I think I took a good step forward on Saturday.
I have been a huge supporter of the blogging platform WordPress for many years. Like many of you, I cut my teeth on the free versions of WordPress and Blogger. However, when I started to take blogging seriously, I stumbled on a company called Siteground.com and the rest is history. Blogging is now part of my daily routine and this blog reaches thousands of folks each day.
WordPress offers one of the most reliable and easy to use blogging platforms available today. Over the course of my regular business day, I work with many Calgary and global companies on how they can leverage blogs in their business. Ulistic offers a wide range of blogging consulting services for business. From blog consulting to coaching. Contact me if I can help you with your business blogs at anytime.
WordPress is evolving to a fully functional web development platform.
For many years WordPress has strictly been used as a blogging platform. For a while, some of the leading web developers started developing great looking websites on WordPress. However over the past little while WordPress has become more acceptable in the mainstream web development world. WordPress is now making serious moves towards offering a full-featured and rich content management system and web development platform.
On Friday, I met up with a good friend of mine and fellow WordPress blogger in Calgary and we immediately jumped into sharing tips and tricks on how we can make our WordPress blogs really sing. I shared a few great plugins that I have found and started to use every day. Many of our Ulistic clients are also leveraging these great additional functions on their WordPress blog. Some of the plugins allow you to scroll testimonials, perform grammar/spelling checking and a wealth of other great added features. You can even send a thank you note to those folks who leave a comment on your blog.
Then my friend shared with me a service he has been using and having some great success with, headwaythemes.com. Headway is a blog development platform for WordPress. You can see it on this blog, this weekend I changed the layout of my blog to a headway designed blog. It took a bit of playing around at first, but after you learn how it really works and read the manual or watch the YouTube videos it is quite awesome. Headway takes all the confusion of CSS and HTML and offers a powerful interface for you to develop your own professional business blog. Upload your own header, change colours and really take ownership of your blog.
Don’t kiss your web developer goodbye just yet, but here is another web tool you can take advantage of for your blogs. Your web developer combined with Headway can really make your blog rock n’roll. I am not a developer, but as an avid blogger and marketing professional…I get this and the power a great locking blog can do for business.
Headway only works on your hosted WordPress blog.
Sorry folks…you need to have your own hosted version of WordPress to make this work. If you have your blog hosted on the free WordPress servers, you can’t take advantage of the power headway offers. However, don’t worry I have a solution for you. Get a hosted version of WordPress with your own domain name for only $9.95 for the first year. Click Here – Cheap WordPress Hosting. After the first year, your hosting is only $120 for the year. Great deal to get started.
Headway is about $90 for a personal version which allows you to run it on 2 of your websites, upgrade to the developers version for about $160.00 and use it on unlimited sites. This is an awesome tool for WordPress, if you are serious about your blogging – this service if for you.
