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ARIZONA ROOF RESCUE

A Wordpress Website designed and developed by Arizona Wordpress Expert Joshua Jacoby

Custom Website Designed And Developed On The WordPress Plaftom For Arizona Roof Rescue

This website was designed and developed for Arizona Roof Rescue by My Favorite Web Designs of Mesa, AZ. We created the graphics from scratch in Adobe Photoshop, and then sent the customer the proof for approval, at which point we built it out on the WordPress platform, using CSS, HTML, PHP and a little bit of Javascript.

Advantages Of The WordPress Website Platform

Easy Upgrades

The WordPress plugin system is a sweet time saver. Programs which normally would take many hours to install can be set up in just a few minutes. Applications like SEO tools, E-commerce and even complex systems, such as ticket management or events booking apps are easily installed and uninstalled by webmasters or even end users.

Awesome Search Advantages

The search advantages of a WordPress system designed by My Favorite Web Designs is huge. We consider SEO in everything, and use only the most sensible design elements. For instance, there are hundreds of slideshows on the market, but only a handful that meet the optimization criteria adequately.

Content Management

The editing system of a WordPress website means contents of the website can be altered by anybody with the correct login. In fact, there are many levels of users, so you can have people who simply contribute, or people who simply comment, whatever you wish. This means you can have employees make updates right away, it empowers the user.

Of course, even with a good website design and a solid CMS, there are plenty of times when you may want to have a web designer professionally design a page. Now you can grant limited access to contractors, so they cannot do damage by accident, to other parts of you site. There is even a database feature that saves the previous versions of any page, so every copy ever published is available to be restored, in the event of accidental deletion or overwriting.

Arizona Roof Rescue Website Design Features

This WordPress Design features components such as a customized contact form 7 sidebar quick quote form, Nextgen gallery pictures for the gallery page, set up for perfect optimization. It also has a front page slider which is content managed by the Gallery plugin, and custom artwork for the slides which are in the slider. Lastly, I am formatting his business info with microdata, and we will add an Hcard for the final My Favorite Web Designs search engine optimization boost.

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ENGINEER DESIGNER

Website Design by Mesa Arizona Web Designer Joshua Jacoby - Engineer Designer Wordpress Website, Thesis theme

This custom WordPress website was built for Ken Risley, owner of the Engineer Designer. Ken uses the very popular Thesis theme for his content management, which is really a nice CMS system. I personally prefer to design and code my own CMS features, but if you are OK with something a little more out of the box, it is a good starting point.

The fun thing about creating and designing a thesis theme is the restrictions. Anyone familiar with designing wordpress websites knows that when you upgrade, core files are overridden. Due to this, you have several different ways to design a WordPress website theme.

Most themes would be static, meaning they are coded once, and then the content is controlled through the database and widgets. This regular type of setup is a standard WordPress theme. When you upgrade the WordPress installation, the theme files displaying the data remain the same. the advantage is that you can upgrade to your hearts content. The downside is that the code will eventually degrade, and the people using your theme will need to switch. You won’t be able to upgrade your theme without overwriting the individuals changes.

So how do you code a theme that can be upgraded? The answer is to use overrides. Thesis very intelligently provided a section that does not get overwritten during upgrades, where we can place custom functions and CSS. Since they override existing CSS or hook to current functions, all the Thesis authors need to do is stick to their current naming conventions when designing and coding the upgrades, and they will install seamlessly.

This becomes fun for me as the Website Designer, since I am achieving things I do everyday anyway, but in a different way than I would normally do them. As a CSS purist and fanatic, I prefer to use CSS over Javascript or PHP when possible, it is a cleaner, lighter weight language and can often accomplish the same objective with less load on the server.

Anyway, the new site looks great, I hope you guys take the time to check it out. Many thanks to Ken Risley and his Wife Kim, great people to work for, I look forward to helping them maintain a dominant web presence well into the future.

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THE NATURAL ROAD

A Thesis Wordpress Design, Customized thesis theme by My Favorite Web Designs of Mesa Arizon

This website was designed and developed for a health supplement company who was looking to increase their conversion rate. The website was originally built on the Thesis WordPress theme. This aspect of the web design was tricky, as Thesis require you add content via custom hooks, delete no content, and achieve all styling with CSS overrides. While CSS makes many aspects of website design and development quite simple, it is much more complicated in an override system. In order for the override to take effect, the exact instance of the html selector must be called, which can be very tricky.

This was also a great project because it involved a remodel of an existing site, without any changing of the content. Many website are made more complicated by using non-standard classes and id’s to style output, instead of building a cross browser compliant website design, seamlessly integrated into a theme which can then be upgraded and updated. It also retain 100% of the original search engine optimization advantages for which the Thesis theme is renowned.

Arizona WordPress Website Design by My Favorite Web Design of Mesa is a terrifically valuable web design service. Our WP customers are able to jump up the search engine rankings far fast and easier than customers without this advantage. In fact, the Natural Choice has ranked many #1 keywords with the benefits of their article system, so they can create landing pages at will.

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WOODLAND BEAM

Website Designed for a custom wood box beam business

Website Design for a custom wood beam maker in North Scottsdale. We performed web design and SEO for this company, with spectacular results. The design has been widely complimented, and the professional look and feel has resulted in over $300,000 of orders from web customers. The e-marketing made the difference. All the pages were optimized for search, and the website ranks third nationally for Box Beams.

This web site features a gallery to showcase the companies projects, a slideshow for the front page, custom contact form and email newsletter signup form, highslide integration and pay pal buy now buttons. Written almost entirely by hand from scratch, this site is one of my earlier pieces of work, and yet still gets compliments to this day.