Tips, Tricks and Uniqueness

I have really been immersing myself in website building the last week or so, and I think I am getting the hang of it fairly well. Every time I work on the site I am learning something new, or a better way to do something. I am also figuring out a lot of the wrong ways to do things – but that is how you really learn something inside and out.

I have a few great free word press and website resources to share today that I have found interesting.

Web Site Articles, Tutorials, and Tips
WebsiteTips.com is an educational Web site design and development resource especially for Web site owners, Web designers, Web professionals, webmasters, teachers and educators, students, and anyone wanting to learn about Web sites.

13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for MAX Performance
Performance is a key factor for any successful website. And since WordPress is becoming more popular than ever, it will only be at its best when raised in the proper conditions. Here are a few things to try if you find that your WordPress site is not performing as well as it could be due to high traffic or hidden issues you don’t know about.

48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress
WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms (if not the most), is capable of being more than just a blog platform. It’s capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). As someone who has both written small, custom CMSes from scratch as well as evaluated million-dollar professional CMSes for large corporations, WordPress‘ robustness never ceases to amaze me.

That’s it for now, I will have more to share tomorrow!

The “complicated” life of learning WordPress

After several days messing with WordPress, I am starting to see that it is a lot more complicated than the blogger interface. I shouldn’t say complicated, I should say sophisticated. Code that was easy to update in blogger is just not that easy in WordPress, so I may be holding off just a while until I can get a better handle on WP to make the move over.

I think that the sophistication of WP is going to really make the site worth the effort. I can see how I could use WP for other projects as well, my mind is racing with ideas while I am reading and researching, and long after I have stopped playing with it. I can see I am going to enjoy the process of it, once I feel a little more comfortable. I want to take my time, though, and not rush it so that all of our sites are very professional and clear. I am using another one of our sites are a guinea pig right now, and once I get that one down I will move to Sean’s other site and follow it up with this one. That is the plan for now at least.