Graphic, Web Design and Marketing, London | Rob Cubbon
Design, marketing, graphics, internet, print, London
One of the ways WordPress can be made to act like an all-singing, all-dancing CMS is with custom page templates. These give you the ability to make any page on your website look and/or function differently to all the others. Here I’d like to explain how you make a custom page template for Genesis. Genesis [...]
The first time I saw WordPress widgets I thought “what on earth are these useless pieces of dog’s do?” Now I think that widgets are awesome website building devices that should have pride of place in any website designer’s toolbox. What are WordPress widgets? WordPress widgets are self contained bits of website code that can [...]
Every WordPress site is different. This is because everybody chooses a different theme or “look and feel” for their site. Creating a header and top navigation menu in WordPress will be a slightly different process for each site. Here I am using the Genesis theme framework for WordPress because I absolutely love it. However, there [...]
In my last post and video I explained how to make a child theme for the Genesis theme framework in WordPress. In this article I explain how to start styling the Genesis child theme. Here you can see where we left off last time with the Genesis child theme only just set up plus an [...]
I often ask the visitors here what they would like to me write about and the most common subject people mention is making your own WordPress theme. WordPress is a powerful publishing platform which can be made to act and look like just about any kind of website. What are WordPress themes and how do [...]
I moved a WordPress blog to a new server and a new address this week. It was one of those jobs that I dreaded doing but didn’t turn out to be too complicated. And I’ve not lost any traffic! Why was I moving a WordPress site to a new domain? A few months back I [...]
WordPress is the best CMS (Content Management System) for business websites. There are many successful business websites that use WordPress, for example Ford, The Wall Street Journal and Sony. WordPress is usually chosen to power a company’s website because it creates websites that are well-structured for SEO and can rank highly in search engines it [...]
There comes a time when you have to fly the nest. Leave the safe but structured environment of your WordPress.com site for the freedom and responsibility of owning your very own self-hosted WordPress.org site. What is the difference between a WordPress.com site and a WordPress.org site? Having a WordPress.com site is like renting an apartment [...]
One of the easiest ways to sell content online is with a membership site using WordPress as a CMS with WishList Member as the membership plugin. A membership site is where visitors have to register or pay to access information in a password protected area. Paid for content has long been a lucrative revenue model [...]
WordPress is constantly being upgraded, improved and securitized. You should change the functionality with plugins and the look with the theme so, whenever WordPress gets updated, the functionality and look of your site will remain whilst the engine that powers it gets an upgrade. The number one reason for getting a site hacked is a [...]
Everything you will need to know about self-marketing on the web, including:
Learn how to develop a successful blog that brings customers to your business
