Web Design Company, Hampshire UK

The guv’nor has decided that our website would be better served being based on wordpress than it’s current Joomla installation. This has meant searching through the vast number of designers that we wished to work with. We finally settled on a design which we feel really brings something new to our site.

The sheer volume of designs available for wordpress means that you are blessed as a developer. In other words, you pay a very small amount of money for a fantastic design that incorperates functionality with beauty.

When changing your template with WordPress it is very important that you are flexible with your approach. Each design and therefore template has it’s own ways of accessing the full potential. Usually there will be examples of just what the template can do that are included as pages within the navigation. If not just checkout the demo.

Here is the new site

You can see how we have used the the built-in functionality to make the site stand out. Take a look at the ‘Latest from our Blog’ section at the bottom of the ‘home page’. The simple combination of content with margins and an image, makes the site look professional and different.

On this page here

This is a page I am not so happy with.

Oh dear!

We had an idea to include vector portraits of ourselves as it seems to be the ‘in’ thing. Sadly I have ended up looking like I am made of rubber. Not so good.

We have decided to build a Marine Directory and this has meant looking into the huge number of directory software solutions available. The main issue to begin with is cost, then which framework to use? I am confident using Joomla, Drupal and WordPress but which will provide the most functionality to meet our requirements?

I have spent the last two days creating a directory using DirectoryPress. DirectoryPress is an add on script for WordPress which aims to turn your simple blog into a directory website within minutes. At a discounted cost of $79 it provides a powerful and affordable solution. The software does seem to have some bugs  and the support available is not as good as you might hope, though this may be due to how recently the product was created.

Ultimately we have decided not to use DocumentPress, though I do believe it competes well against MUCH more expensive competition. The reason being that the back end is not very intuitive. Whilst it is easy for a WordPress professional to use, it may cause untrained clients no end of problems.