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Wordpress Solutions
Ever wanted to setup your own website but don’t want to spend a fortune on just to get the site up and running? We offer wordpress solutions for individuals or businesses looking to setup their online presence.
It is also transparent to Google and it optimizes for search with ease. Wordress gives our clients the ability to edit their own text 24/7 and actually makes updating websites fun.  Would like to learn how fun Wordpress is to update?  Take our Wordpress video based online class.
Our services cover any combination or all of the following:

• Installation
• Configuration
• Customization
  
• Maintenance
• Optimization
• Plug-in installation (VBS researches the best plug-ins available)
  
• Mutimedia integration- audio(podcasting) video (videocast)

Perfect for those who want to leave the technical side to the experts and concentrate on running your business/site.
We provide the technical expertise so you can do what you do best.

Never heard of Wordpress?

Wordpress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms)

Wordpress Pages

• Wordpress Pages
• Wordpress Links
• Wordpress Themes, Template driven designs
• Plug-ins
• Cross-blog communication tools
• Comments
• Spam protection
• Full user registration
• Password Protected Posts
• Easy installation and upgrades
• Easy Importing
• XML-RPC interface
  
• RSS Feeds
  
• Newsletter Friendly
• Workflow
• Typography& Text formatting
  
• Multiple authors
• Bookmarklets
• Ping away

User management
WordPress uses user-levels to control user-access to different features, so you can restrict the ability of individual users to create or modify content in your weblog, by changing their user-level.

User profiles
Each user on your website can define a profile, with details such as their email address, instant messaging aliases etc, if they want to. Users can also control the way in which their details are displayed on the website.

Dynamic page generation
No rebuilding of all your pages each time you update your website, or any aspect of it. All pages are generated using the database and the templates each time a page from your weblog is requested by a viewer. This means that updating your weblog, or its design is as fast as possible, and required server storage space usage is minimal.

Internationalization and Localization
You can now create a website that is localized to your choice, and delivered in a language of your choice. The gettext method is used to translate and localize WordPress to the fullest extent.

Publicizing Your Work

Feeds
The RSS 1.0 (aka RDF), RSS 2.0 and ATOM specifications are fully supported by WordPress, and what’s more, just about any page on your website has an associated feed that your readers can subscribe to - there’s a feed for the latest posts, for categories, comment.  The more options your readers have to keep track of different sections of your website, the easier it is for you to spread the word around the world. WordPress also fully supports RSS 2.0 with enclosures, so adding mp3 files (such as podcasts) to your RSS feeds is an easy installation.

Inter-blog Communication
In an increasingly connected world, WordPress comes ready for PingBack and TrackBack, two very useful ways of connecting to other websites and blogs, and to enable them to do the same.

Creating Content

Password protection
So you want to share something with some people, but not everyone? Easy, protect the article in question with a password.

Post Slug
If you are using clean PermaLinks on your website, you can define the link to an individual post by using a post-slug.

Post to the future
You can write a post today and have it appear on the website at a future date, automatically.

Multi paged posts
If your post is too long, cut it up into pages, so your readers don’t have to scroll to the end of the world.

File/picture uploading
You can upload pictures or files, and link to them or display them in your articles. You have the option of creating thumbnails of pictures when you upload them.

Categories
Organize your posts into categories, and sub-categories, and sub-sub categories…

Emoticons
WordPress is smart enough to convert character smileys, like “:)” into the graphical image counterparts.

Save Drafts
Save your unfinished articles, improve them later, publish when you’re done.

Previewing Posts
Before you press the “Publish” button, you can look at the preview for the article you just wrote to check if everything is the way you want it. In fact, you can do that at any time, since the preview is “live”.

Bookmarklets
Add the “Press It!” bookmarklet provided by WordPress to your browser and you have a shortcut to create an article with a link to the page currently displayed on your browser!

Sidebar
If you don’t like a bookmarklet, use our friendly browser sidebar, which can be used in a similar fashion.

Formatting
Think of WordPress as something that makes your words smoother, and your pages more appealing. WordPress ships with text-formatting plugins that clean up your content and add typographic goodness to your articles.

Archives and Search

Archiving
After you’ve been blogging and writting articles for an extended period of time, what matters is how well your posts are organized, and for that, WordPress provides you with several ready made options to display the archives of your blog, containing all the old posts. You can choose from yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, category-wise or author-wise archives, and easily link to the archive pages from the main page (or any other page) of your blog, using a template tag to generate the links to these archive pages. Since WordPress generates pages dynamically, all these archive pages come at no additional space-cost to your server.

Searching
WordPress has a functional built-in search tool, which allows visitors to your blog to search for terms they are interested in, and the search-hilite plugin that ships with WordPress can highlight their search terms, so it is even easier for them to find what they were searching for. In addition to this, the plugin also does the same for someone who arrives at your blog by clicking at a search result in a search engine, such as google. All in all, searching is fun, with WordPress.

Comments

Moderation
WordPress provides an array of moderation options. You can moderate

* all comments before they appear on the blog
* comments with specific words in them
* comments posted from specific IP addresses
* comments containing more than some specified number of links.

All these moderation options keep spammers and vandals in check.

Notification
WordPress can keep you in the loop by sending you an email each time there is a new comment or a comment awaiting moderation.

Creating and Managing your links

Blogroll (links)
The blogroll is where you link to the blogs you read frequently - a friendly way of acknowledging the good blogs out there. WordPress’ built-in Links Manager allows you to add and manage links effortlessly
Bookmarklet
The effortlessness begins with a neat bookmarklet that you can add to the bookmarks or favourites in your browser. Adding a link to an interesting blog or website is as simple as clicking on the bookmark or favourite when you visit the blog or website the next time!

Categorizing
The links in your blogroll can be categorized and neatly organized

Importing/Exporting
If you already have a list o’ links as an OPML file, you can import it to your WordPress blog. For those coming from other blogging tools, this means that you can import your blogroll from Blogrolling.com and never use a third-party service to manage your blogroll, again.