We are currently working on the final touches on a new website for FCHK. FCHK represents a brand new evolution in influential marketing as an interactive promotional platform within a contest community. They host, facilitate and aggregate contests on the…
Antispam Bee is a great WordPress plugin for protecting your website and blogs from digital spam called Antispam Bee. Antispam Bee detects comment and trackback spam and even includes statistics and notifications about the spam being blocked.  Download it now…
As local Beijing based brewery opens it's doors and start to fill local bars and pubs with it's unqiue brew, we prepare to launch their new website. Featured below is a small taste of the companies new homepage, focused on…
Recently Google has made some changes to their Google Place service, which allows business, restaurants, shops etc. to register themselves so they appear on Google Maps. Now when you open up a business in Google Maps and click on the…
Whenever you have read something really interesting, probably the first thing you want to do is tell all your friends, family and distant relatives what was so interesting about it. Luckily there’s now an easy way of sharing with that information with the people you know using a very useful and handy little tool called “ShareThis”. As a writer of blogs or articles it allows you to add the functionality of letting people share your article without too much fussing around. As a user it allows you to tell your friends about anything interesting you’ve read and to store it in your favorite bookmark website for future reference.
When using WordPress for special character websites such as Chinese, you have to be careful to manually specify the Permalinks. If you use Chinese characters for the title of a page or a post, then the Permalink that is automatically generated by WordPress will be come out in a strange format and won’t work correctly.
During my university years studying Interactive Media, we often discussed what is truly interactive. It was a time when the internet was emerging, interactive TV was coming, video games consoles were going online and I got my first mobile phone with a built in camera. A lot of the things we discussed have already come to pass and the proliferation of the internet has gone global. So what is the shift that traditional media is making and how can businesses do more to utilise their own websites?
A great way to promote your blog is to include your latest posts in your email signature. This way every time someone opens an email from you, they get reminded of your blog and hopefully will pay a visit.
On the left is an example of my email signature, which also includes links to my Linkedin page, Facebook page and Eggplant Flickr account. These are also pretty useful in getting colleague’s, clients and friends to connect with you.
Whether you are a developer or a content writer, WordPress offers a multitude of ways in which to update your site. The question is are you utilising them all?
