WordPress Development for your Business

Will WordPress tick all the boxes for your requirements?

WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination. Wordpress can be used for Community organisations such as Youth Clubs, Charities, Sporting Clubs etc, whereby they can publish their event calendars, stories and add their own blogs.

Although WordPress has the functions of delivering 'Blog' interaction to the audience it can also be configured to serve as a website without the 'blogs'. An electrical company would simply want to display their services with a contact form and maybe a few other pages added to build up their portfolio. With the WordPress platform it gives companies the ability to change their content via a simple admin control panel and as they go on they can add more pages and content without the need of employing the services of a web designer.

Wordpress can be developed for any online business

So why should you use WordPress?

Most Cost effective CMS Platform

WordPress puts you in full control of the structure and gives you the power to develop the website adding as many pages as you wish. This cuts out any cost for further development via a third party developer and over the years will save you money as well as bringing in new business for you.

Open Source Software

WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial website without having to pay to get future updates done such as adding pages or changing content. It is built on PHP / MySQL (which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL .

User Friendly

You don't really have to be experienced to use WordPress on your website. Once we have configured the website to your specification you are free to run with it. There are numerous forums and websites giving advice on how to complete the simple tasks and for £30.00 or less you can invest in many WordPress user guides. At a single click of the mouse you will have full control within your admin panel to make the changes you require.

SEO Friendly

Search Engines have to be definitely kept in mind when building a website. WordPress uses different functions which allow it to be search engine friendly. For example sending pings to other sites, making categories, tagging your posts, use of h1/h2 tags etc. All Meta Description and Meta Keywords can simply be added to each page to your liking.

What we offer

BDI Media will help you pick your WordPress 'theme' and then we will develop it to your specification. Once we have completed the project we will spend a half day session training you on how you can upload images, change content, add more pages and how to navigate through the control panel. We will show you how best to optimise your website for SEO purposes to ensure you drive as much traffic possible through to your online Business.

And after all that we hand you a comprehensive 'User Guide' on using WordPress to help you on your way.

Prices for your WordPress website start from £370.00 depending on the requirements of your project. We will be happy to discuss your WordPress project with you and advise on layout and the structure that will best suit you.

Call us today to discuss your Wordpress needs on 07732 675 404

We are always happy to talk!

Key Features of Wordpress

The following is a list of some of the features that come standard with WordPress, however there are literally hundreds of plugins that extend what WordPress does, so the actual functionality is nearly limitless. You are also free to do whatever you like with the WordPress code, extend it or modify in any way or use it for commercial projects without any licensing fees. That is the beauty of free software , free meaning not only price but also the freedom to have complete control over it.

Full standards compliance

Wordpress have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today's browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less. In this day and age there are not many people who don't use at least one Social Networking Site. A recent survey suggests that visiting social network sites has become more popular then sending an email. Here in the UK one in every six minutes of the average web user is spent at a Social Site.

No rebuilding

Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.

WordPress Pages

Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static "About" page that you manage through WordPress. For an idea of how powerful this is, the entire WordPress.org site could be run off WordPress alone.

WordPress Links

Links allow you to create, maintain, and update any number of blogrolls through your administration interface. This is much faster than calling an external blogroll manager.

WordPress Themes

WordPress comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and you can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you switch with a single click. Have a new design every day.

Comments

Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.

Multiple authors

WordPress' highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.

Ping away

WordPress supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines.