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A Blog is What?

For the uninitiated, here are a few Blogging concepts explained (there is an unashamed slant to the superior capabilities of WordPress ). What is a Blog A Weblog (as it was called in the ‘early years’) is essentially a chronologically ordered group of articles. There were, way back, typically journal/diary type entries. As time went [...]

St George Players Thank You Letter

I’ve recently completed a WordPress Website for a music school called St George Players in Oatley near Sydney, Australia. Jan and David (of St. George Players) had an existing HTML Website, a wordpress.com blog and Facebook and Twitter Pages. In addition to a more cohesive and integrated Website experience for visitors, Jan and David need [...]

Understanding WordPress Software, Content, Themes and Plugins

One of the challenges in training people in the use of WordPress is the huge number of variances between WordPress WebSites. Of course, one of the great strengths of WordPress is its Content Management System (CMS) architecture/characteristics that separates the functionality from the content and the ‘look and feel’. For example, one may change the [...]

Adobe Selects WordPress.com

Hot on the heels of Microsoft moving 30 million Blogs to WordPress.com we learn of Adobe migrating 1200 of their Blogs to WordPress.com (from MovableType). O.k., Adobe actually beat Microsoft to it but the news has taken awhile to spread. The number of Blogs moved by Adobe to WordPress.com is small (in the context of [...]