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WordPress Tips – Building your Website with WordPress

Posted by Ben on January 25th, 2011 in Tutorials & Resources, Web Design Articles | No Comments

Whatever your niche, the key is to be individual, and to stand out from the crowd. With all the thousands of new WordPress themes out there, it seems as though sites are becoming a little standardized, with new sites being created in hours instead of weeks – it’s important that your website looks like some serious time and effort has been put into it and it doesn’t look like every other cut and paste job out there. When building your website with WordPress, your main objective should be to build a site that is seamless, wordpress should simply be the ...

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How to change the length of the_excerpt() in wordpress

Posted by Ben on September 28th, 2010 in Tutorials & Resources | No Comments

Time spent as a freelance web designer often means i come across problems – this particular one was driving me crazy for a while! – Often is the case, you’re in WordPress you’ve created your index page, your featured post content slider and your page is coming together… but the WordPress post excerpt is either too long or too short. Maybe you need to change the length of the_excerpt to better fit in with your design or maybe you just want more juicy text in the page for Google to chew. For those who haven’t dealt with excerpts in WordPress ...

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CliffHiStory

Posted by Ben on September 17th, 2010 in Showcase | No Comments

CliffHiStory is the official authorised website for Cliff Richard’s new photographic memoirs and souvenir slip case. The book has been authorised by Sir Cliff Richard himself and is available now for purchase through the website. The Cliff Richard: History Website has been built on top of a wordpress framework utilizing the popular and powerful wp-ecommerce plug in and google checkout. Link to this post!

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RealityOMG

Posted by Ben on September 17th, 2010 in Showcase | No Comments

RealityOMG is another website in the OMG series, a network of TV gossip and rumour sites conceptualised by Tom Thurlow. The RealityOMG site focuses on all reality TV shows, from britains got talent to big brother. The site is the only UK website to recieve exclusive content from MTV. Link to this post!

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Hollyoaks OMG

Posted by Ben on March 17th, 2010 in Showcase | No Comments

HollyoaksOMG is part of a network of news, gossip and rumour sites – the brain child of entrepreneur and rising star Tom Thurlow (view his Wikipedia page). Tom envisaged a complex network of UGC websites aimed at building on community spirit and social media . Over the past 18 months i have worked closely with Tom to launch his vision. The first of the websites to Launch was the aforementioned HollyoaksOMG. Hollyoaks OMG is built on a wordpress framework and is running on a bespoke built unique template and various custom plugins. The site data base has been integrated with ...

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Lightlake Therapeutics Inc

Posted by Ben on March 17th, 2010 in Showcase | No Comments

Lightlake Therapeutics is an international team of research scientists, pharmacologists and doctors backed by investors, who are pioneering a safe, effective and simple remedy to the epidemic of obesity and unhealthy eating. I joined the project as part of the Bosschimp Marketing Services group to provide accessible web design services. Lightlake.org was built partially on the wordpress framework, to allow for simple content management of news articles and downloadable documents. Link to this post!

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