Are you looking for a WordPress theme designer? Do you need help installing, updating or supporting your current WordPress theme and/or database? Do you need installing, setting up or support with plug-ins and widgets?

Contact us today and we will be glad to answer any questions you have with absolutely no obligation. You can use the contact form to get in touch with us. Responses usually occur within 24 hours.

WordPress is the blogging platform of choice today, and is one of the most popular blogging solutions. It will soon be the Content Management Solution as well. Should you decide to use WordPress as your blog or content management system, you have made an excellent decision!

We specialize some of the custom WordPress theme designs created specifically for our customers. If you are on a budget, consider the purchase of a pre-built WordPress template. We have hundreds to choose from.

WordPress Setup and Help

Creative Web Design 123 has years of experience working with WordPress. Whether you want to start your first blog or manage several blogs in a single installation, we can help you get online and stay online.

As with any software program, WordPress requires regular website maintenance to keep running at full potential. Keeping your WordPress files up to date will help protect your website, blog or content management system from all the bad guys that want to hack into your system. Updating will also keep you connected to the newest features WordPress has to offer and make for a better running site overall.

To help you make the most of your WordPress installation we offer the following services, including everything connected to setting up and configuring WordPress.

Don’t want to call us every time your website needs updating? Then you need a content management system (CMS) that will allow you to manage, update and add content to your website long after it’s gone live. We build websites on top of the powerful and easy to-use WordPress publishing platform, giving you control of your site’s content. If WordPress isn’t a good fit for your site, we’ll work with what works for you.

Specializing in creating custom web sites and custom WordPress themes. From the initial design concepts to the final coded web site, we will create a stunning web site to help you grow your business. Get Your Own Customized Theme!

A WordPress maintenance schedule plan, is needed to keep plugins, security updates and your website database backup current and safe. This will prevent security problems and make it easy to recover in case of data loss. pdates are always being made to WordPress itself as well as themes and plugins, and keeping your installation up-to-date is extremely important, especially since so many WordPress updates are security fixes and patches that will prevent potential exploits of the vulnerabilities of your website and/or blog.

Because WordPress is so popular, it is constantly being targeted by hackers who will try to tap into your site and wreak havoc. If your WordPress website is hacked, and you do not have the proper back ups, it will be too late and you will have to start your website all over again. We take the pain out of security and maintenance. Please ask  yourself the following questions:

Is your WordPress website secure?

• Have you maintained your WordPress installation to ensure the latest version of WordPress is installed?
• Are all of your WordPress plug-ins updated and compatible with the current version of WordPress?
• Have you properly backed-up  your WordPress pages, posts and database?
• Have you backed up your Content folder?

If the answer to any of these questions are NO, then please contact us right away!

We will properly secure and maintain/update your WordPress installation with the latest versions of all running programs.

$100 Security and Maintenance special. Includes the following:

• Back-up  your WordPress website [pages, post and database]
• Back-up your CONTENT FOLDER
• Regular, automatic backups of your pages and posts.

Monthly WordPress security updates, plugin maintenance, database repairs, database optimization, database backup, .htaccess backup, updates.

Because this can be a cumbersome task, Creative Web Design 123 has created a suite of WordPress Maintenance Service Packages. Each one will help you make the most of WordPress and stay on top of a variety of features that can give you ideas for improving your website.

we offer you solutions to help fix your hacked WordPress website and implement malware security on it to prevent future malicious attacks. Additionally, we provide comprehensive secure WordPress installation to ensure your new website is safe.

WordPress the ultimate: 6 reasons to use the content management system (CMS)

WordPress is a system that has been around for about a decade, developed as a free, open-source content management system (CMS).  The outside can look like a regular Web site, not necessarily a blog. The back end allows changes easily – as if using a word processor or checking e-mail.  But don’t be fooled. The power of WordPress is demonstrated by majors who use it, such as CNN, Samsung, Wall Street Journal and General Electric.  This is not to mention the many universities and celebrities who take advantage of its capabilities, (even New Kids on the Block and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen!).

Here’s why WordPress is great for a business:

1)     Changes can be made, pronto.  You always have access to the back end for adding photos, writing posts or making edits, without having to know computer code.  This is cost-effective because it eliminates the need to pay a Web developer every time changes are necessary.  It also saves the time and hassle of sending instructions to an on-board techie.

2)     It comes with a blog AND static pages.  You can write “posts”, and also have static info about your company on “pages”.  Having a blog is essential for search engine optimization (SEO).  If you don’t update your site AT LEAST once a week, you can expect Google meta spiders will stop indexing your site.  The best is to have the blog inside the Web site, so your whole site gets good rankings.

3)     It’s customizable. Your WordPress site doesn’t have to look like everyone else’s.  Branding and layout are as adjustable as any other type of site.

4)     It’s super powerful. It can be as functional as you need it to be.  There are thousands of “plug-ins” available to install automatically.  These include shopping carts, image and video galleries, widget changers (for the info on your sidebars), site-map generators and SEO packs that automatically insert meta-tags for Google and other search engines to read.  The list is endless!

5)     It sends out pings. What are pings?  They are SEO-friendly notifications sent to the Internet every time you write a post.  They get you noticed before you know it!

6)     It’s constantly updated. The people who work on WordPress are always improving the software.  This means your CMS will stay up-to-date with the latest trends in technology.

Article in Business Fraser Valley News – Joyce Grace

Building a WordPress website is for your nonprofit isn’t not as hard as some people make it seem. Every nonprofit website is different and unique however our proven non-profit web design methodology delivers quality results over and over.

Websites for non profit organizations have evolved into powerful tools in charge of collecting donations, motivating supporters and helping organize events. Beyond the look of your website it’s important to consider the long term value a multi-functional website can have. Websites for non profits now-a-days should be search engine friendly, easily updateable with a content management system, integrate with event registration and donation tools, as well support social media engagement through use of a blog, newsletter, twitter feeds, or Facebook. Considering the long term marketing impact will enable your organization to build a marketing machine that will last for years to come.

Formatting your text in WordPress is fairly easy and intuitive if you have ever used any kind of computer software before.

An engaging and focused website design for a non profit can do wonders. First, design should quickly inform visitors about the mission of your organization, doing so with engaging images and copy. Second, good web design for non profits should incorporate simple navigation that highlights key pages helping visitors locate the information they are searching for within seconds. In terms of navigation another best practice is to include a sitemap which will help users and search engines find every page within your site. Perhaps, the most important aspect of successful web design for nonprofits is making sure every site page incorporates a call to action. For example, large buttons that drive newsletter signups or social media engagement. Other instances of a good call to action are making sure upcoming events are mentioned on every page, donation buttons, and contact information. Reinforcing these elements reinforces action from every visitor.

Behind any good website for a non profit is a reliable hosting provider, and peace of mind that your website is always there for you 24/7. Attacks and viruses are a real threat to any site. A hosting solution should include regular website backups, and someone to call encase downtime does occur.

The conditions

• Website must be easy to maintain
• Must have a backend
• Must have a backend in a language that can be used by the people maintaining it
• Multilingual support
• Economical
• Site should be up as quickly as possible
• Big developer community

With all that in mind I suggested to use WordPress as a CMS to drive the website. WordPress is recognized the world over as a blogging platform, however, it also happens to be one of the most convenient and easy to use Content Management Systems.

We ensure you’ll be able to manage your website using a personalized training video and a webinar style one-on-one training. In person training is also available.

Generally the last thing people think about when building a WordPress theme is search optimization. Features and design come first, and search optimization generally comes last or not at all. This article will discuss a few easy steps to make your WordPress theme a little friendlier to search engines. More specifically I’ll concentrated on explaining why it’s a good idea to optimize your WordPress theme, what the key elements of good on page SEO are, and discuss today’s best practices for on page SEO when designing websites that use WordPress as a CMS.

There isn’t a whole lot you can do for on page SEO, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. We’ll look at the following best practices for on page SEO and then see how we can apply them to our WordPress themes.

• Using descriptive page titles.
• Having unique meta description for your pages and posts.
• Having clean URLs.

Descriptive title tags for WordPress themes

Your title tags should clearly describe what the content of the page or post is about and should be unique for every page. It’s also a good idea for the title to include your site’s name. Fortunately the default theme for WordPress does this out of the box. 

This is great. However, if your using WordPress as a CMS you’re probably going to be using pages more often than posts and you may want to keep your page names to one word or less to keep your navigation menu at a reasonable size. For example your about page is most likely titled “about”. If this is the title for your page and you’re using the default WordPress title function, then your title will be “about « your site’s WordPress title”.

I recommend that you do this for all of your pages by using conditional statements. You can even go further by creating unique titles for all of your different post categories.

Creating meaningful meta descriptions

Meta keywords aren’t incredibly important when it comes to achieving better search engine results, so I don’t put much effort into these. However, having a good meta description for your site’s pages and posts is important. Some search engines use these descriptions when displaying results, and it’s these descriptions that can make the difference between a user choosing whether or not to visit your web site. Needless to say, it’s a good idea to make unique meta descriptions for all of your pages and posts.

Clean URLs for a better search engine ranking

Using clean URLs improves your site and the search engine rankings. It’s more likely that people will be able to remember certain locations within the site. Your page-rank in Google is likely to go up and you stand a better chance of turning up in search engines.

Google — “If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.”

It’s better to send people the URL http://example.com/pagename.

Happy SEO writing!