Why wordpress is the bomb!

Mar06
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WordPress is the most widely used Content Management System used (2013) built using the most widely adopted program language (PHP). It’s currently running more than 68 MILLION websites as I type this.

Let that sink in for a moment. 10 years ago, there were only 70 million internet users. That is just an epic statistic.

68,000,000

But it’s not the numbers that should convince you to use wordpress, it’s the following 3 reasons.

1. It’s free

Well you can’t beat free, and such is the case with wordpress. Because of it’s open source nature, it’s free to use by all.

2. It’s got loads of plugins

WordPress has a vibrant plugin community. If you are a small business, you can get some amazing plugins that will increase your sales and drive more users in your doors. A few of my favs? Gravity Forms Ninja Popups WordPress Super Cache

3. It’s super easy to learn

Towards the end of a project I train all of my clients on how to use wordpress, and guess what? It only takes them about 30 minutes to get the hang of it. If you know what a mouse and a keyboard is, than you’ll pick it up quickly.

Sneak peek of a new site.

Mar27
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New Solid Giant!

Mar16
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Welcome to the new site!

Take a poke around and if you feel so inclined leave your digits (or thoughts) below. I promise not to spam your email… well only if it’s a bad comment.

Leveraging WordPress for the Small Business

Feb10
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It’s no surprise that wordpress is the #1 Content Management System on the planet right now. If you are surprised than checkity check out the reasons why it is.

1. It’s free
2. Widely suported by developers everywhere
3. Huge list of plugins that do everything
4. Complete creative control on the look of a website
5. You can install it on your own server
6. Massive community of Themes
7. Easy to understand content editor

There are way more reasons that I could list here, but I’m sure you probably already know what wordpress is, because you are reading this article right now. And guess what? The article you are reading is built on WordPress.

Surprise!

Now that we have a basis for why WordPress is awesome, lets get started on how to leverage it for your business. And keep in mind, business can be swapped out for nonprofit, startup, church… anything that you need a website for.

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Finally version 3 of Solid Giant is live!

Jan19
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Since it’s 2011, I thought it would be nice to re-design the Solid Giant website to reflect where I’m taking this business this year. So here it is! If you like or don’t like it, sound off in the comments below. As you can see this whole shebang is built upon WordPress, out with Tumblr! Tumblr turned out to be an abomination, and is down probably 10 times a day. So not very useful from a business perspective.

This new site uses League Gothic as it’s main font, being served up by fontsquirrel, and uses Thematic as it’s hardcore foundation. Everything is completely designed by me (Josh Starr). I’ve slaved hours and hours into this new site, so if you have something mean to say, keep it to yourself. Just kidding, go ahead and say it in the comments.

I tried really hard to make this site different than other sites, and wanted to add little things here and there that would surprise and reward the user for finding them. Check out the big G in the header. It floats and the shadow is realistic. Once you click on it, it takes you back home. It’s rocking jQuery. It’s the small things that matter right?

Oh and you can comment with Facebook or Twitter. More options to sound off in the comments. You’re. Welcome.

Anyway, it’s good to be new, and I hope you like this version.