WordPress – Increasing Speed, Reducing Time to First Byte
Posted on 29. Sep, 2010 by Robert Steers in Web Design, Wordpress
Last week, as part of our ongoing quest to increase the speed of our website, we were tweaking our WordPress blog, we noticed a couple of things. The first was that there was a large portion of the loading time spent waiting for the database to respond. The second was that the time to first [...]
WordPress now owned by WordPress
Posted on 23. Sep, 2010 by Robert Steers in Wordpress
Just following the trends in WordPress right now, it seems the trademark for WordPress has been passed to the foundations itself. This is probably an very altruistic gesture on the part of Matt at Automattic. The WordPress community took a big step forward today when Matt announced that Automattic has donated the WordPress trademark to [...]
Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in wp-admin/includes/update.php on line 49
Posted on 16. Sep, 2010 by Robert Steers in Wordpress
We experienced some sort of strange error last night when we were updating our site. Suddenly we go the following error after logging in to the admin section; Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /wp-admin/includes/update.php on line 49 After going through the files and the database, we could [...]
Faster WordPress – WP Super Cache vs W3 Total Cache
Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by Robert Steers in Marketing, Web Design, Wordpress
We had a few websites hammered by big traffic recently, so we started playing around with CDNs like Amazon S3 and the like. After getting some pretty good gains from using S3 for video, we thought we would turn to our own website to see if we could increase the load times here. After getting [...]
Blog Content – Attracting Attention For Your Business or Law Firm
Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Robert Steers in blogging, How To, Tutorials, Wordpress
Sometimes it can be hard to find enough content to write about, especially when attempting to blog weekly. However, once you have some techniques on finding content, you will find there is more than eenough out there to last a few years. Blogging for a law firm can be perilous, because you don’t want to [...]
WordPress 3.0 Bigger, Better, Beautiful
Posted on 18. Jun, 2010 by Robert Steers in Web Design, Wordpress
With over 10 million downloads, WordPress has now overtaken every other open source CMS as the system of choice. For ease of use, level of support and ease of development, it is hands down the most flexible content management systems available. We can also safely say that it has thrown off the shackles of being [...]
The Best WordPress Themes for Business – WordPress Templating pt2
Posted on 16. Jun, 2010 by Robert Steers in Tutorials, Web Design, Wordpress
Since we our first post on the best wordpress themes for business, there has been an update to WordPress, Google and to the quality of themes available to businesses who want to use WordPress as a CMS system for their business. If you are using WordPress for your business, it should at least have the [...]
Creative Ideas For Better Food Marketing
Posted on 13. May, 2010 by Robert Steers in Marketing, Tutorials, Web Design, Wordpress
The White House has come forward and said there is too much marketing of unhealthy food aimed at children. In the US at least there are two battles being waged. The first is between food manufacturers, particularly those that produce high sugar, high fat foods, and a wave of anti-obesity campaigners. The second is between [...]
French Sheldon Web Design
Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by Robert Steers in Web Design, Wordpress
French Sheldon is a wholesaler of leather and PVC handbags and purses. They asked Creative Development to create a website that would showcase their range of over 60 products. Creative Development created their website using the world class WordPress system, which allows them to regularly update their range quickly and without excess costs. We optimised [...]
Top WordPress Tutorials for April
Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by Robert Steers in Tutorials, Wordpress
We often use WordPress to build websites for our clients. So we thought we would throw together the top tutorials for wordpress on the web right now. 9 Handy Twitter Plugins for WordPress Blogs 10 WordPress Traffic Builder Plugins That Work 45+ Fresh WordPress Tutorials, Techniques and Hacks 40 Excellent Web Design Tutorials for Busy [...]
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