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Twitter’s New Follow Button
Jun 7th
The team at WordPress.com have been working hard with the guys at Twitter to unveil the new Follow Button to the online world for the first time.
The new Follow Button is designed for your readers to easily follow you on twitter without ever leaving your WordPress website. This is a huge benefit for businesses that previously had to redirect users back to their respective Twitter accounts and risked losing customers once they had left the company web page. The new Follow Button will act similarly to the Facebook “Like” button. You can incorporate the new Follow Button into your site by:
- Adding the new Follow Button to posts, pages or text widgets. You can customize the colours, show a count of your followers and display a link to your Twitter page.
- Using Twitter’s Blackbird Pie tool to embed fully functioning web Tweets on your posts and pages.
- Displaying the Follow button on your site’s side bar using the Twitter Widget.
The new Follow Button should help increase your site’s reach and exposure. If you would like to know more about incorporating this feature in to your website or would like to know more about the social media services that Areatrade provide, contact us here.
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Wedding Accessories Ecommerce Web Design
Feb 2nd
We are proud to launch this website design project for a wedding tiaras / accessories company. The initial brief was to design the company logo / branding.
Once the logo was complete we moved onto the ecommerce web design, the platform we chose for this project was WordPress. WordPress Cart was an ideal solution for the client to begin selling her products online, as it is easy to update and gives the client full control over her products. We set up a blog and implemented her social media accounts, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Google analytics was installed on the website to allow us to gauge the success of the Google Adwords (PPC) and Search Engine Optimisation campaigns we are currently providing.
Visit the website: http://www.glitz-n-glam-uk.co.uk
Let us know what you think of this new ecommerce web design.
WordPress wins 2010 CMS Hall of Fame Award
Dec 21st
If you need help with your CMS or would like to comment on your favourite CMS just let us know.
Builders Website Design Example
Dec 1st
We are proud to launch this website design project for the North London Builders DCL – Direct Construction Ltd. The initial brief was to design the company logo / branding.
Once branding was complete we moved our focus onto the website design. We took the time to understand the clients services and planned the website content around this information, we provided 5 bespoke home page designs and this was the outcome. The website design is built inside the WordPress platform which means the blog was seemlessly integrated and future social media interaction will be simple and cost effective to implement.
WordPress for iOS Mobile App Updated 3
Nov 26th
The WordPress mobile app has been updated which has seen huge bug fixes and the following new features:
- Video: record video inside the app and post direct. - Local Drafts: saves all post locally before being puclished or saved online. - Autosaves: Allows you to revert back to older verions of a post. - Set Up Process: Allows WordPress.com users a quick way to add their blogs, and WordPress.org users a more streamlined experience when adding their sites - Media Library: New media library.
Let us know if these updates help improve your website design or Ecommerce Web Design wordpress platform.
Website Design / Blogging Platform Hits 100 Million Downloads
Oct 20th
Website Design / Blogging Platform Hits 100 Million Downloads
WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads last month, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads.
The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major part of that will be improving the infrastructure of the plugins directory. More than 10,000 plugins are in the directory, every one of them GPL compatible and free as in both beer and speech. Here’s what we have in mind:
We want to provide developers the tools they need to build the best possible plugins. We’re going to provide better integration with the forums so you can support your users. We’ll make more statistics available to you so you can analyze your user base, and over time we hope to make it easier for you to manage, build, and release localized plugins.
We want to improve how the core software works with your plugin and the plugin directory. We’re going to focus on ensuring seamless upgrades by making the best possible determinations about compatibility, and offer continual improvements to More >
WordPress – History of the Website Design Platform
Oct 13th
Due to the huge demand for social media integration and the importance blogs play with on-page search engine optimisation we use WordPress as a first choice platform for our website design and website redesign clients. Here is a little history about the platform.
WordPress History
WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal website design publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is modern software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. WordPress believe that focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.
2001 – b2 cafelog launched by Michel Valdrighi.
2003 – Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little fork b2 and create WordPress.
2004 – Plugins are introduced with Version 1.2 (Mingus).
2005 – Theme system and static pages are introduced with Version 1.5 (Strayhorn), followed by persistent caching, a new user role system, and a new backend UI in Version 2.0 (Duke).
2007 – A new UI, autosave, spell check and other new features were introduced in Version 2.1 (Ella). Widgets, better Atom feed support, and speed optimizations came out More >