The Reality? it takes a lot of hard work and late nights to get your blog up and running. Webhosts, themes, plugins -- not to mention SEO. Do you really have the time?
The Solution: I’m MommyGeek, and I’m here to help.
The newest beta version of Headway 1.7 has been released to the lucky ones holding a developers license, and geeks, web designers and WordPress newbies around the world are clapping their hands with glee and squealing with joy like kids at Christmas. This next version is the bomb, guys. New Features ...
It's official! The Headway Beginner site has launched, with several tutorials already up for you to look through. I have a few more scheduled over the next few days, and I'm busy cranking out as much user-friendly and beginner-friendly Headway knowledge as I can. What are ...
Headway does a pretty good job of being optimized for IE, considering the vast number of user options that are configurable. On top of all that, the Headway Theme for WordPress offers unique options, such as easily targeting certain browsers with custom css classes.
Until recently, the only real competitor in the theme framework space was the Thesis Theme by DIY Themes, until Clay Griffiths and his father, Grant Griffiths, came up with the idea of the Headway Theme by G2 Web Media. I honestly and truly believe that you can achieve anything with Headway. While you could also achieve nearly anything in Thesis, I think you’ll have to do a lot more work to get it there.
A recent client (NFMChamber.org*) had a need to show a page listing in the footer of their site. This isn’t an unusual need, and it’s simple enough to do with standard HTML & text links. The challenge for this particular client is that they needed the listing to be dynamic; the users and administrators are not very technology-savvy and couldn’t tell their HTML from their elbow.
It took me a while to figure out how to get the redirects to work so that the old blog posts (there were hundreds) would redirect to the new blog posts. Just adding a redirect to redirect any URLs with /blog didn’t work, as the new blog page was ALSO examplesite.com/blog, but all the posts were examplesite.com/month/day/postname.
Because the truth is that PR staff at firms are as busy as you and I are. They, too, have deadlines and intense timeframes to work in, and so if they can’t find out immediatately why they should ocntact you and how they can, they’re going to vanish from your site. Fast.
Wordpress isn’t just a blogging platform. It’s a Content Management System, and as such, it’s often used for small businesses (or even large corporate websites) that want to include a blog, or some of the other easy to use features or plugins that Wordpress as a platform provides.
One of the most common questions that I receive as a designer and all-around Wordpress geek is How do I create a front page for my website or How can I use Wordpress as a website for small business? or Can I put my Wordpress blog as a separate tab or page?
Caitlin, a.k.a MommyGeek, loves designing for WordPress. In fact, she loves anything that let's her geek show. Always up for a challenge and usually with a smile on her face (aside from a few adorable temper tantrums when her code won't cooperate), Caitlin wants to design your site. Yes, yours.
