13 Reasons You Should WordPress Use to Design Your Business Website
We believe WordPress can be used to run small business websites … although it was originally created as blog software, and that’s what it’s famous for, we’re trying showcase WordPress as a full-fledged content management system. (In fact, you can see some of the backstory of why we started iThemes and why we think it’s
Intermediate WordPress Developer Training in Oklahoma City
Main Street Open who handles all of our custom/modification requests at iThemes has announced a one-day Intermediate WordPress Developer Training seminar in Oklahoma City on Saturday, Aug. 2. This would be a great seminar who those interested in developing websites and plugins in WordPress. Check out the details here for the training seminar, which I
Business Web Design 101 Links
Here are some links to posts that we’ve done at iThemes highlighting some tips and ideas for business web design: 5 Tips for Making the Most of Your Business Website 3 Tips to Improve Your Online Writing Local Search is What Matters 5 Tips For Writing Headlines That Work What Is SEO and Why Do
Portfolio WordPress Theme: Viz | Biz
Viz | Biz is our new premium portfolio/photo gallery WordPress theme. It seems like we’ve been working forever on this theme. Test drive it here and purchase it here
Super Easy File Uploading in WordPress
WP programming genius Chris Jean has recently posted a new plugin called WP Easy Uploader that allows you to upload files, like images, plugins and even THEMES to WordPress inside WordPress (read: no FTP needed) … This is an awesome plugin and helps present a neat solution for our WP clients. Before this plugin, if
Asides: Easy, Free Event Invites
Check out Goovite for easy, free event invites
End Customers Emails With a Question
I’ve mentioned before that every freelancer as well as small business website should have a contact form on their website. If you’re using WordPress, there are two great free contact form plugins you could start using today. Actual contact forms are FAR superior to the the old mailto email links, where you click on an
A Simple CMS WordPress Theme: Notepad
Our free Notepad Theme at iThemes is a simple CMS type theme that could run a brochure-like website. We wanted to release this theme to the WP community. It comes in 13 pre-built color styles and have a Options tab to enter your contact information in the footer. Download the theme here and test drive
Tutorial: How to Use FTP for Uploading Files to Your Website
Our great forum moderator Jesse just posted a tutorial on how to use FTP called FTP Demystified
Aside: Posts Too Good Just to Bookmark
15 Entrepreneurial Blogs, A Checklist For Sending Email, Useful WordPress Tricks, and 10 Videos for Learning Web Design