Wordpress 3.0 release will bring with it something I feel has been missing from the great publishing system – we will finally have a great navigation system. It looks to work similar to the widgets menu system and allow multiple menu control from one screen. The ability to add and order menu links by drag and drop and great control over the menu links themselves; you can add any existing page, a category of posts, a sub category of posts and external hyperlinks. Wordpress 3.0 is shaping up to be a great release.
Start your website marketing efforts by laying good foundations – a properly ordered HTML structure should have the main content at the top of the web page, followed by your secondary content like your sidebars.
This will give greater emphasis to the information most relevant to the web page. Google knows that the content at the top of a web page is more likely to represent the page as a whole and its a good idea to make Googles life easier.
It’s official, Shopify rocks! if you’ve used it you already know that, but now its official as the new Foo Fighters shop is built on Shopify, the shop is a typical Shopify design easy to use, minimal layout and a user friendly checkout system. Check it out.
This weeks design critique is for the domestic diva and Opera Singer Juliette Pochin, designed by Designbit, the design replicates the visuals of Juliette’s album, a high contrast color scheme of passionate reds and the metaphor of a piece of paper to represent the written word. Lets Discuss.
I wanted to clear up the difference between categories and tags in Wordpress, something I find myself explaining very often to clients new to the Wordpress publshing platform. Wordpress Categories are your table of contents. Wordpress Tags are your index words, think of a book metaphor;
Freelance designers often know HTML / CSS inside out, along with graphical editing, so it makes sense to monetize that skill set as much as possible. You can add another string to your bow by offering a email marketing service, there’s some differences
