Commercial Bus Expert Witness Website

A simple, clean design is what WordPress’s twentyten theme gives you. With a few tweaks by me it can still  represent your brand AND be a great, top-notch, quality website: Search Engine Friendly, blog ready and able to handle as many pages as you need. Even if you don’t have a lot of money to spend, don’t sacrifice quality. Robert Berkstresser has been doing expert witness work for a few years, but needed a website: he needed it fast, he needed it to be inexpensive and he needed search engine friendly. That’s what he got.

I Want a Great USA Web Development Magazine Website

There’s no reason you can’t have more than one website on your domain. Maybe you have three related sites, maybe you just want to run some different sites for your family: reunions, new babies, family gossip….whatever. WordPress is can handle that fine and you can install multiple WordPress programs on one hosting account with many hosting companies.

In my own case, as a web developer, I am currently running three distinct websites on sweetthursdayweb.com that all relate to my business. The last my quest to motivate someone to create a great USA Web Development Magazine. My site: “I Want a Great USA Web Magazine” is hosted at http://usawebmagazine.sweetthursdayweb.com/. It’s also a WordPress website and I put it up in a couple of hours. It uses the WP twentyten theme. Search engines are already giving it some decent rankings…..though a new magazine would even be better……..

SweetBooks WordPress Website

You may think that because I’m a web developer and programmer that I have tons of money to spend on the design of my own websites. Yes, go ahead, think that. However, like many of you, this is not the case. I programmed SweetBooks to “Manage Your Business on Your Website” and now I’d like to start selling it to the public. But I don’t have a lot of extra cash floating around my house to pay for a customized design as much as I’d like to do that. I learned a long time ago that I’m a skilled programmer, not a designer (A man’s got to know his limitations!).

SweetBooks Support Forum

So I decided to find a premium WordPress template and then adapt it to my own needs. For SweetBooks I’m using the Genesis framework with their child theme: Delicious. I have modified it, changed some colors, added some buttons, etc., but their basic framework and design is there which not only saved me lots of money, but also lots of time. WordPress is great. I also needed a store. There’s an ecommerce plugin for that. And I wanted a forum. The same people who programmed WordPress have also programmed BBpress. This site goes beyond the scope of my $499.00 WordPress website, but using WordPress, the ecommerce plugin and BBpress allows me (and you if you want), to roll out a sophisticated web site in a reasonable amount of time for a reasonable amount of money.

She also wants to have control over what people see if they search her name on the internet. Here’s a nice little test: search your name and/or company in Google or any major search engine. Do you like what comes up? If so, you’re good. If not, a website that you have control over is a great answer.

This site will be launching in the next week or so…..

The Old Morris & Giacinti Website

Morris & Giacinti LLP had a one page website that needed to be updated. Attorneys Suzanne and Nicole wanted something that they could update themselves, something they could blog with and something good for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). They didn’t have a lot of money to spend. WordPress was a perfect fit.

The Artisteer templates didn’t fit what they wanted, but they could not afford custom design and customized implementation of that design into WordPress.

The New Morris & Giacinti WordPress Website

One of the things that I love about WordPress is its versatility. While reading one of my trade magazines I came across a WordPress theme that I thought would work for Morris & Giacinti. There are literally thousands and thousands of WordPress themes out there. Some are free, some you have to pay for. This theme cost about a hundred dollars.

Once the theme was installed I tweaked it to Suzanne’s and Nicole’s specifications: added a new header with image logo searchable by search engines, new image heading on home page, dual sidebars (one for regular pages one for their blog) along with CSS changes throughout (this affects letter-spacing, font-colors, etc).

The result is a clean, professional looking website. WordPress comes through again.

BNI Synergy Network New WordPress Website

BNI needed a new website and needed it quickly and at minimal expense. As with all the sites listed here, Artisteer made website building process quick and efficient.

The new site can handle as many pages as they want, can be updated themselves, is good for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and if they get tired of this look they find free themes or pay for themes if they wish.

You don’t have to spend a lot of money for a great website. Contact me (Glen) at Sweet Thursday Web Development if you have any questions (619.303.3796).

Great Hands 4 U Old Website

David Neff is a massage therapist. He’s had his site, GreatHands4U.com for quite awhile. It was built with tables and the design of the site was outdated. However, like a lot of people in this economy David didn’t have a lot to spend. Once again Artisteer, WordPress and Sweet Thursday Web Development make the perfect solution.

Great Hands 4 U New Website

David’s old design was revamped quickly and efficiently with Artisteer, but more important than that, the underlying code is suitable for search engines and if David wants to add his own pages or blog consistently, WordPress will automatically add the appropriate tags for search engines or if David wants he can add his own customized meta tags.

The site incorporates WordPress plugins for: SEO, Twitter, Google Sitemap, Spam and Forms. Another great site for a very reasonable price.

Old Website

Alan’s Music Center has been around for a long time…since 1954. They sell and rent instruments, repair instruments, provide music lessons, sell sheet music and much more in the La Mesa / San Diego area.

Their website has been up for a long time and like a lot of websites it was adequate when it first launched. The internet, however, marches on at an alarming pace and what was adequate 10 years ago is not so today.

The new site will be an informational site only, but they still wanted the ability to list instruments and prices and they want to be able to blog regularly. WordPress, once again, is the perfect answer. The site was built quickly using Artisteer and then I added a page to handle photo gallery pictures which will be used as product pages for instruments.

The Development Site Ready for Content

I spent an hour with Alan’s Music Owners Jan, Alan and Bob showing them how to use the very intuitive WordPress administrative area. The site is basically complete, all that is left now is for Alan’s Music to add their content and when that’s complete, I’ll launch the site.

I purchased inexpensive, professional images for much of the site and Alan’s music will be able to obtain many more professional images from their suppliers.

The new website is clean and SEO ready with a full Content Management System. All this at a price they can easily live with.

Sweet!