WordPress was originally blog software but it has come a long way from its origins and is now used as a content management system (CMS) for blogs and for websites. You can learn how to use WordPress as a CMS on our WordPress Training Course.
These days, with the rise of social media, most websites will have at least one blog section on them. WordPress enables you to create multiple blog-type sections of Posts as well as ‘static’ Pages. Most websites contain content which is suited to being either a Page or a Post and will usually have a mixture of the two.
How are WordPress Posts & Pages Different?
Pages
Pages are ‘static’. Like all WordPress content they are generated from a database but they are static in the sense that they are a single page with specific content, e.g. an “About” or Contact page. They originally provided background information about a blog and evolved as WordPress developed towards being used for complete sites rather than just blogs.
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Posted by Giselle in Blogging & Content Marketing, News, WordPress on November 28th, 2012| No Comments »
Here at Silicon Beach Training we have a great offer on our SEO, Social Media & Internet Marketing courses in Brighton. We recognise that these disciplines overlap more than ever and a well rounded marketing team must have experience in all areas to succeed.
Our 5 day ‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’ deal is just £995 + vat. Pick from any of the courses below to create your own 5 day custom package:
You can take these courses at dates to suit you (visit the individual course pages for upcoming dates) or you can complete the training in the same week with one of our suggested packages. Call us on 01273 622272 to discuss availability.
Not sure which package to pick? Here is an overview of each course to help you understand how they work together as a complete online marketing package: Read the rest of "SEO, Social Media & Internet Marketing ‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’ Training Packages"
Posted by Aaron Charlie in Blogging & Content Marketing, Brighton, Email Marketing, Marketing, News, Offers, PPC, SEO, Social Media, Web Analytics, WordPress on May 9th, 2012| 1 Comment »
Google have just announced that they are going to start showing author information in search results. This is great for author awareness and can help Google raise the rankings of pages written by authority figures. It is also great for SEO‘s who are worried that al the great content they are writing is getting ripped off or assigned to the wrong author!
Even better, Google are replacing ‘rel=author’ and ‘rel=me’ tags and are instead automatically linking your Google+ profile to content you have written. All you have to do now is add the URLs of the sites you write for to your Google+ profile, and then when scanning those sites, Google will attribute any posts with your author name to you. Then when those posts appear in search results they will come with a ‘Written by’ box including a link to your G+ page. It should end up looking like this:
So why the need for this new change when Google first announced author tags last year? Read the rest of "How to Connect Content to Google+ Accounts for Authorship"
Posted by Aaron Charlie in Marketing, News, SEO, Social Media, WordPress on January 13th, 2012| 4 Comments »
Why you should upgrade to Dreamweaver CS5?
The best updates in Dreamweaver CS5 are the development tools for dynamic sites built using PHP-based content management systems like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal.
Using Dreamweaver CS5 with Joomla, WordPress and Drupal
Silicon Beach Training provide a great 2 day Dreamweaver Training course in Brighton, Sussex, as well as WordPress Training, Designing custom Templates in WordPress, Joomla Training, CSS training, in fact everything a web developer could need. See our full range of Web Design Training.
There is a general shift in business sites towards content management systems because of the growing popularity of blogs and community sites so this is a welcome addition. These CMS’s (Content Management Systems) don’t create static HTML files, most of the pages on a WordPress blog or a Drupal site are generated using templates and include files. This made it impossible previously for Dreamweaver to render previews of the pages. Dreamweaver CS5 now gives you tools to design templates and see what your layout will look like in your final design. Using the built-in WebKit engine Dreamweaver CS5 now renders your page as it would render in WordPress (or whatever PHP-based CMS system you’re using).
Dreamweaver CS5 can now identify and establish the relationship between the pages created in WordPress, Joomla!, or Drupal based Web sites and their dependant files. This makes finding what file you needed to edit and making a specific change much easier.
The addition of new inspection tools in Dreamweaver CS5 let you make adjustments to the CSS or the DOM of pages and see them rendered in real time. The inspector shows you how your code will change as you interact with dynamic elements on a page, and it will show you how various changes you make to stylesheets show up on the rendered page.
There is extra support for PHP with new code hints for WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, with support for custom functions and classes, so you can even create your own code hints and error highlights for other PHP frameworks.
Added support for WordPress and other like-minded CMS tools is a big improvement, and one that’s necessary since so much of web publishing has moved to PHP-based systems. If you have a joomla, WordPress or Drupal site you should test out Dreamweaver CS5 and see if it helps to make designing templates easier.
Posted by Heather Buckley in News, Web Design, WordPress on December 29th, 2010| No Comments »
If you’re going to attend our WordPress Training course in Brighton, Sussex, we recommend that you download and familiarise yourself with FileZilla prior to attending. FileZilla is a free FTP client that we use on the course.
If you’re not attending the WordPress course but need to know how to use an FTP client to manage the local and remote files in your website, this guide to setting up FTP using FileZilla will be a useful reference guide.
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Posted by Aaron Charlie in News, Web Design, WordPress on March 9th, 2010| 6 Comments »
