We’ll be building the shape in Illustrator using the 3D Revolve tool before going into Photoshop to texture it all up using clipping masks and blend modes and layer styles and all that modern doohickory.
The new version of Adobe’s successful CS series of creative products has just recently launched and Dreamweaver has received an extensive upgrade full of exciting new features for WordPress developers. For a long while, I was content using Notepad++ to do all of my development but, after switching to a Mac, I thought I’d give DreamWeaver another go and this new version has been well worth it.
The launch of Never Ending Voyage was one of our most successful website launches to date, receiving over 8,000 visits and over 5,000 unique visitors in its first three months. Our site was launched on February 19th 2010 and the image above is a picture of our Analytics account for those initial months (until May 18th 2010).
We launched with one post and a posting schedule of 3 a week (which we managed to keep to until we ran out of internet in Paraguay!) and we’ve been fortunate to have over 470 comments in the four and something months we’ve been live. We’ve also managed to earn some income through affiliate sales which has paid for the hosting costs for all of our sites for the year. Not bad for such a young site!
Ask me what the most important aspect of a website is and I’m likely to reply ‘Conversion Rate’. I believe it’s even more important than visitor numbers and I would rather have a high Conversion Rate than a high visitor count (of course, having both would be best of all!)
Of course, you need to have a certain number of visitors to begin with, but even 100 visits is enough for you to start to see which aspects of your site are working.
The recent release of the world’s most popular blogging platform has seen some huge additions, including the ability to add custom Post Types and custom Taxonomies, and support for multiple blogs.
Other improvements include support for custom stylesheets to style the post and page editors. What this means is that what you see in the editor more closely resembles the final product.
To take advantage of these amazing new features, you’ll need to upgrade. Upgrading your current version of WordPress to the new version is pretty easy and all of the core functionality should just continue to work as normal and you shouldn’t lose anything.
However, there have been reports of bugs in some plugins and themes after the new version has been installed, so some care should be taken.
In order to celebrate the launch of my new site, I’d like to offer up to three people the opportunity to have their blog streamlined for FREE!
All you have to do to enter is refer someone to me who is looking for a website, a custom plugin or a consultation and, provided they purchase a service worth more than £200, you will get 2 hours free consultation on your blog or website. It’s that simple.
In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a big fan of WordPress. I use it as a base to build all of my websites and here’s why:
1) It’s only good for blogs, right?
I think the upcoming release of WordPress 3 takes it closer to putting that debate to bed with a resounding ‘No’. WordPress 3 allows custom post types and taxonomies, which makes creating different content editing areas for different parts of the site a breeze.
Downloading the iPhone SDK although it looks like it uses a REAL programming language...
Hi! I'm Simon Fairbairn and I am very fortunate because I love what I do!
I spend my days designing and building websites and teaching people about Search Engine Optimisation, traffic analysis and conversion rates.
In other words, I help people create beautiful websites and then I help make those websites perform.