Web Design & SEO Services

This website uses the WordPress™ blogging platform with some valuable extras -

• additional Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) features
• multi-language translation
• comment anti-spam
• easy sharing and bookmarking
• visitor analytics
• auto-updating sitemap.xml generation, etc.

Wordpress can also be adapted to look like a typical website but with blogging features – a hybrid if you like.

If you would like us to make you a search engine optimised website, blogging site or a hybrid of the two – give us a call on +44(0)1543-415423, visit our main website Roxbourne Ltd – The Marketing Designers, or fill out the contact form on this website.

ROXBOURNE Ltd – Web Design, Marketing and SEO Consultants – Lichfield Staffordshire Birmingham Midlands

A plugin for Wordpress called IE6 Upgrade Option. This is a preferred plugin over the many alternatives due to the fact that the message is displayed with a Lightbox effect and not placed at the top of the code forcing content down and drastically altering the page appearance…

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Key features of a blog for owners :

• Allows multiple user logins
• Easy for users to write and upload posts and edit them later if needed
• Allows users to save drafts prior to final posting – so a post doesn’t have to be completed in one go
• Easy for users to embed images and videos and provide optimised alt text
• Allows full coding rather than just plain text so that posts can have hyperlinks to other pages in the main website or to other posts, or to another website or blog, etc
• Looks and works the same in all popular browsers
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Introduction to Blogging

(courtesy of WordPress.org)

What is a “blog”?

“Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles on other Web sites.

Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.  Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as news, web design, travel, sports, or mobile technology.

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