Posted on November 22, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

VERITAS ASSOCIATES, LLC

Arizona WordPress Designer

Custom WordPress Sites Provide SEO Advantages

Converting A Website To WordPress For SEO Benefit

As an Arizona WordPress Designer, I often run into situations where a site can be optimized in HTML, but if we are doing an ongoing SEO campaign, the cost benefit of running on a WordPress core increases dramatically. WordPressing a site is not hard, and can often be done as part of a website redesign.

The original design elements were left over from another website designer. I simply cleaned it up, big time. I replaced the bulky javascript that was running the slider menu with nice clean Jquery, I redid the table layout as clean CSS, I proportioned everything. I also put the site onto a WordPress platform, which was a great move. Since we also do the SEO for Veritas Associates LLC, creating a super SEO friendly web design like this was a good move. It paid off well, just search Google for an Arizona Private Investigator, he has been top 5 for a year, #3 right now and closing in on that #1 spot. He is also one of many that I have done and promoted with top AZ spots as an Arizona WordPress Design pro.

When designing a WordPress website, there are many tools to use for different elements. Sidebars can be hard coded, widgetized, dynamic, static, use default template commands, whatever. A really good template blends these elements together seamlessly, and provides for good SEO, which this WordPress Web Design does.

Advantages Of WordPress Content Management Systems

Conquering SEO With Intelligent, Custom CMS

Many people do not understand the need for a good content managed website. You may think, as I once did, I can simply manage my content with dreamweaver, or even notepad if you like to hand code your websites soup to nuts (I Do). Well, this is true. So why does WordPress provide an advantage?

Why Does A WordPress Site Really Make Matter?

Advantages Of WordPress

Every Arizona business could benefit from a WordPress website design. The benefits are many:

Manage all pages of the site in a super easy tree like structure
Manage all URLS for all pages in one place, with easy redirecting for changes
Add capabilities such as live chat, forums, analytics and more with an easy plugin system that anyone can learn in under 5 minutes
Manage all titles, meta tags, and other SEO characteristics from a master list inside the WordPress administration panel.
Fantastic Gallery for managing your website’s images

Posted on November 12, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

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.

Posted on August 23, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

ENGINEER DESIGNER

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.

Posted on June 29, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

HCG MOMMA

This website was created using wordpress CMS, HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript and Jquery. It features a slideshow on the front page that links to posts within the website, a great SEO friendly feature. It also features WordPress E-commerce Web Design that is built into the wordpress site via wp e-commerce and customized with an eye toward seamless upgrades. The customers were a Husband and Wife in Mesa, Arizona. They are selling HCG on the net, and they needed a designer who could establish a web presence for them that was both attractive and optimized for search engine results. They also wanted the ability to sell online, and needed a web designer who would be able to integrate the e-commerce with the CMS, as opposed to using the CMS abilities that come with most cart, which are serious disadvantage when going up a well optimized WordPress website. One of the coolest parts of this cart is the ability to feed the products via RSS to Google, so that they display in the merchant search results. The cart also features auto tagging of all products in RDFa format, which is great for search engine readability. I definitely consider this project a home run, and count the site amongst my favorites.

WP e-commerce is a terrific platform for doing commerce online. Though it had a rocky reputation in its earlier development, it now is on a very stable development line, and is the most widely supported and used E-commerce software on WordPress. In fact, the team at Get Shopped is an 8 man development core, that has been working together for years, and the future for this software just keeps getting brighter and brighter. As an Arizona WordPress E-commerce Designer, I have designed for storage shops, home health remedies, diet pages like this, and even complex product types like upload and print interfaces.