WordPress Websites
Flexibility, Functionality, Adaptability
WordPress Website Design & Development
Easy to Customize
WordPress revolutionized web design, since it was built around blogging (and updateable content), and it enabling interchangeable themes! Themes allow you to download and install different pre-configured designs or “skin” for your website. While the theme may be shared by thousands of others, you can customize and configure it uniquely for your business, using your colours, your branding, and navigation (form follows function!). It takes a skilled web designer to start with a theme and customize it properly. Then you can focus on website content and flow.
With a WordPress website modestly tech-savvy business owners can update their website content. RSS feeds helps you reach to more users, and chat integration helps you answer questions form your smartphone. You can upload files & photos directly to the website sing your hosting platform or a plugin.
Low tech-savvy to update the website
Great for content-intensive sites
We use WordPress to create content intensive sites. The content management system (CMS) is open source and they uses open source technologies like PHP, MySQL that reduces cost of management and hosting.The many “themes” (templates), and plugins (tools) are available at modest cost, to provide a starting point for design, enable enhancements with quick features integration, and simplify site updates and maintenance. A WordPess website design may be the solution.
If you’ve ever tried to design your own website, you know how hard it can be! Trying to figure out layout, colours, and code can be so frustrating. It was hard enough in the early days when all monitors has 800 x 600 pixel resolution (the “Y2K” era), but now with all the devices and browsers, responsive design requires you not to understand HTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript. Half the time, your site will end up just a big mess that you end up abandoning, writing off your invested time, and spending more money to fix it.
Low or no coding required
FAST IMPLEMENTATION
Develop quickly, evolve in iterations!
Be a fast-moving target
No matter how good your website is, your competitors will copy it and try to surpass it as soon as you launch. They will quickly reverse-engineer your keywords, your coding, and your SEO strategy. BE PREPARED TO IMPROVE.
Implementation typically includes:, content (the words), imagery (photos, diagrams, and logos), site structure and navigation, and any custom coding (including stylesheets, plugins, scripts, etcetera). Allow proper time (but not too much) for writing, review, proofreading, and approvals. Put the subject matter experts (the “SMEs”) in charge of their content (at least, the first draft of it).
Consider the concept of “Minimum Viable Product”, a concept used in “app” development.Your first version is a fully viable website, but with some reduced features or content. Delay some lower priority features for the next release.
In developing content, consider what are your “Core pages” and largely static, which are “news” / articles, are created over time as your business grows and evolves, and thirdly your “product” pages. Your product pages can launch with the highest-demand items, and can grow to include more and more of your offerings, and incrementally add detail.
As well, once your new website is launched your clients will start giving you feedback, the good ones because they want you to succeed. Never underestimate the interest of your clients!
Some of our WordPress websites
MovingInCanada.com discusses the many towns & cities across Canada, and thousands of great livable neighbourhoods (over 1600, in fact). For each community, you can search our very complete business directory…
Leeward Capital Corp is an unlisted Canadian junior mining exploration company incorporated and registered in Alberta, British Columbia and Nunavut with headquarters in Calgary, Alberta. The company is planning to…
Hoffman Dorchik LLP is a 40 year old Calgary-based law firm that had a simple problem: they could not be found online. A referral from another client, we identified their…
Tamino Minerals is a Mexico-based company, Junior Gold & Silver Exploration Company that seeks to explore the Amalia, Porfido & El Volcan Properties in Northern Sonora. The company is public…
Canadian North Resources - Responsive Public Company Website Dinatrum Real Estateis a property administrator based in Canada with properties in Mexico, Canada and the United States. The company is public…
Alumifuel Power Corporation is a Mexican-headquartered company, developing a new generation of hydrogen fuel generators for the clean-energy and defence industries worldwide, and has several patents registered with the US…
Minera Virray S. de R.L. is a Mexican geological consulting service company in is based in Hermosillo, in the Mexican state of Sonora, with its corporate head office in Huntsville,…
Canadian North Resources is a Mississauga-based company, developing a mine in Nunavut, near Ferguson Lake (west of Rankin Inlet) that has high-grade Palladium, Platinum, Rhodium and Copper, Nickel, Cobalt potential…
World Wide Customs Brokers is a Calgary-based company, with 12 locations across western Canada in major cities and border points. World Wide Customs has been a client since 2003. They…
Max Juby is a 90-some year old retired gold prospector, now active singer-songwriter, poet and book author living in Montreal. Over the years, Max Juby has written 7,000 songs (and…
The Oak and Priest Wine Company is a venture by movie producer Chad Oakes (Nomadic Pictures, producers of Van Helsing, Hell on Wheels, and Farbo) and television star and producer…
What they do Chataway Homes is a Calgary based design-build home builder for custom homes and for multi-unit condos and rental units. What we did We managed their website since…
Asia Green Biotechnology Corp. is an early-stage international agri-technology company (publicly traded as CSE:ASIA), moving toward the planting, growing, and harvesting of new and valuable strains of hemp and related…
Who they are Her Royal Hair is a Vancouver & Calgary custom wig, hair extensions typically sold in bundles, and hair products company doing business in both e-commerce and…
EGB Manufacturing wasis a specialized full-service manufacturing facility featuring design, prototyping, and fabrication in the Calgary area, family-run and operating since 1974. They provide precision-machined components and assemblies for a…
J.R. Paine & Associates Ltd. is a 50 year old employee owned engineering consulting firm specializing in the fields of geotechnical engineering, materials engineering, materials testing and environmental engineering. J.R…
Calgary AutoLeader South is the city’s top automotive mechanics, providing a wide range of automotive services including repairs. They also do performance upgrade installations, and custom fabrication to a wide…
Dr. Karen Massey, Registered Counselling Psychologist (Emergo.ca) website What they do When patients are overwhelmed and upset, they call Dr. Karen Massey, Registered Counselling Psychologist, for support and solutions. Whether…
What they do Ross Drysdale is a lawyer with over 45 years of experience in the legal profession. He specializes in corporate, securities and business law, with a particular focus on…
Asi aCannabis Corp-desktop Asia Cannabis Corp. is an early-stage international agri-technology company (publicly traded as CSE:ASIA),centred on the planting, growing, and harvesting of new and valuable strains of hemp and…
When WordPress isn’t Perfect
We have been programming websites for TWO DECADES, and are not married to just one set of tools and methods.
Many sites have over a dozen CSS and JavaScript files, and are often too graphics heavy, so are really slow to load on many devices… For example, using JQuery for JavaScript library can add over 600 kilobytes of load time to a website. FoundLocally.com’s main website has a single 60 kb CSS file and about 30 kb of JavaScript to speed page load.
You may create “micro site” for a special event of product launch, and ongoing interaction with your customers is all done on Email or Social Media, so once finished, the site is hard-coded, and stays that way until it is no longer needed.
Sometimes your branding and design concept is too complex for an off-the-shelf WordPress theme (it happens!), and needs to be custom coded.
When you need to integrate with a company product database in Microsoft SQL or Oracle, or Microsoft Access, then hosting on a Linux environment is not an option, or the programming to integrate with WordPress is no longer an off-the-shelf possibility. Another strategy needs to be considered.
The FoundLocally.com website, for example is over 100,000 pages of content. Can you imagine the Pages menu for that? WordPress websites work well for sites from 1 to 100 pages, and above that become rapidly unmanageable.