Today we’re going to cover WordPress. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be covering the reason why you need a particular type of website. Weather it be a small one page website or a full blown Content Management System. This is intended for those interested in either establishing a web presence or simply giving their current website a fresh new look.
So sit tight and let me explain to you why you need a WordPress driven website.
Backing up your site is important, very important. However, this is something that nobody wants to think about, but once it happens – you know, doom. The kind that is waiting for you because you have the-worst-luck-ever-and-if-you-didn’t-have-bad-luck-you-wouldn’t-have-any-luck-at-all-kind of doom – your site, for whatever reason goes down. Not only that, but your files, images, drafts, settings…all gone. Forever. Unless of course you set up VaultPress.
I was recently given a golden ticket to try out the new premium service, VaultPress. The service is provided by the same people behind WordPress, Automattic. It seems the team over there has really out done themselves. As they say on their site: “Disaster happens. Things go wrong. Aliens attack. Enter VaultPress.”
There are plenty of things on the web about CSS3. It seems like everyone has said anything and everything there is to say about the next iteration of Cascading Style Sheets. Having been using it recently on my site’s redesign, I’ve decided to jot down a quick note about using CSS3 today; even if that means that browsers like IE 6, 7 or 8 don’t get any CSS3 love.
You don’t ever want to design from the bottom up, but rather from the top down. Start with the best possible out come, then ensure that your sites degrade gracefully. We shouldn’t be limiting ourselves by developing sites for the most common browser or the most out dated. As Andy Clarke says, “I strongly believe that to achieve the best design that I can, I should design to the best browser I can, not to the lowest common denominator or the most widely installed.”
I wanted to write a quick update on how things are going for this guy. If you’re reading this you can probably tell that I haven’t been updating the blog as frequent as I had hoped. Frankly, work has been taking a lot of time and when I’m not working I like to take time off. For me. Now I haven’t been completely disconnected from this site. I’ve been working on a new look and feel for the site. I’ve never really been happy with my site. Truth be told, I started working on a redesign since I last launched. I was in a hurry to get my site up and running so I could find work - work that I eventually got. I’ll be
Well, that time has come again. I’m going to aggressively start looking for freelance work soon . Business cards are being designed and I am in the middle of coding up my new home page. I’m hoping to have something up and running before the end of the year.
Fin.
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