Tag Archives | Wordpress
metric-screenshot

Case study: Union website redeveloped using WordPress

I recently stumbled across the website of Illinois Education Association (Regions 14 & 62) which I think is an excellent example of a union using an inexpensive Premium WordPress Theme to create a professional, feature rich website. It’s worth highlighting this website to give union communicators and officials an example of what can be achieved [...]

Read full story Comments { 4 }
blogger_vs_wp

Why using free web services for your union campaign website is a bad move

It is a bad idea for your union campaign to use a free website service like Blogspot, WordPress or Typepad, for four reasons. Unfortunately, I see a lot of union campaign websites using WordPress.com or Blogspot.com websites for small campaigns (and not just unions, but other non-profits, like environment groups). Firstly, the website doesn’t belong [...]

Read full story Comments { 2 }
customdesign

Setting up a website for your union campaign

I see a lot of union campaign websites. Some are good, some are not so good. One of the things I consistently hear is concern about the cost, the difficulty and the time. This article is about how to simply, quickly and cheaply set up a website for your campaign. There are lots of resources [...]

Read full story Comments { 0 }
wordpress-logo-shine_02

Should your union invest in a proprietary CMS?

I’ve been having a few conversations with people around the traps about content management systems for websites. For those who may not be familiar with the lingo, a content management system is the online software that runs websites. Most complicated websites use a content management system (CMS) to look after all the various pages and [...]

Read full story Comments { 1 }

Updated to WordPress 2.8

Just a quick note – I’ve updated to WordPress 2.8 and added a Twitter plugin to automatically notify Twitter of new posts. Still struggling with a few theme compatibility issues.

Read full story Comments { 0 }