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Introduction to WordPress

WordPress was initially started by the developers as blogging software. A blog is a term used for an online journal, diary or serial, published by a person or a group of people. Blogs to start with were generally personal in nature, reflecting the opinions and interests of the creator and owner. However, recently blogs have developed into an important tool in the world of business, politics, and entertainment. Everybody gets a chance to voice their opinions and you do not really need someone else to do the job for you.

Posts are the main element or content of a blog. Posts can be of any form such as writings, compositions and discussions and blogs also provide the readers with the option of learning more about the blog’s owner and guest authors and to interact with them. Posts, in most cases, are the lifeline of a blog. It is only what gets written in the blog that helps the blog to exist. With no content, there is no blog. To facilitate the post writing process, WordPress provides an authoring tool with flexible modules that can be used as per the user’s preference. It contains all features to help the author and the simple drag and drop facility makes changing things extremely convenient. The dashboard quick press module is also one of the features it provides, it makes it easy to quickly write and publish a post.

WordPress is one of the finest personal publishing platforms with a spotlight on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is free to use and priceless in terms of its usage. WordPress offers easy to use back end functions for writing content and making other changes to your site. It has numerous themes and plugins which are again mostly free. With WordPress it is also very easy to build your own theme or customize an existing one.  A blog is also integrated with pictures, images, sounds, and movies. This variety in media offered boosts and enriches the blog’s content. WordPress offers a straightforward and easy method of inserting media directly into posts along with a scheme to upload media that can be later attached to posts.

An important part of the posting process is assigning posts to categories. Each post in WordPress is filed under one or more categories. In addition to categories, keywords called tags can be assigned to each post. Tags also act as navigation tools. Post categories and tags are called post meta data. Post meta data refers to information associated with each post and includes author’s name, date and post categories. Besides post meta data, Meta is the HTML tag used to describe and define a web page to the World Wide Web. After a post is made, a reader can respond, via comments, to that post, and in turn, authors may reply. Comments enable the communication process and facilitate learning as well.

Flexibility and versatility are the most important features of WordPress and that is exactly why it is the most preferred blogging media today.

eBusiness Consulting

Hello Everyone,

We would like to take this post to let you know that our team of consultants are here to help.  Our consultants are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding our company, website design and development information, software solutions, etc.  We are here to help your eBusiness along to success and so, whatever you need, we would be happy to provide.

You can connect with us by phone (CAN 1 (226) 220-3156, USA 1 (347) 783-6986), email (info@designtm.ca) or instant messaging (Skype: “tmdesignca”) and we would be to answer any of your questions or help you to find what you need.

- TM Design “Professional, Affordable, Reliable”

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

It has been a busy couple months for the TM Design team, but with a few large site launches in December and January, we are looking forward to a great year!

Please take a look at our latest launch found at www.thevitalgroup.ca.  The Vital Group is a marketing agency based out of Toronto, Ontario.  Here is a small clip from their About page:

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Installing a WordPress Template in 5 Simple Steps

We have found that many personal bloggers out there are purchasing WordPress templates from sites like www.themeforest.net in order to give their site a unique look. I would encourage those looking for a unique look to go the custom template route and hire a designer (Note: Make sure the designer has worked in WordPress before) and a WordPress developer. We offer both services including installing a template and setting up the blog for you as well as custom design.

Having said that already, you may not have the time or money to get a custom template done, and so, here is a quick guide to installing and configuring a template in 5 Simple Steps: read more

9 Essential WordPress Plugins

For our first official blog post, we thought we would list what we consider the 9 most essential WordPress plugins.  We use these plugins a lot for ourselves as well as each client.

However, first, we need to introduce WordPress quickly.  Wordpress is a content management system (CMS) that allows you as the owner of the site to add, edit and delete the content of your website.  You can add pages, posts, and pictures as well as monitor trackbacks and comments.  As a side note, TM Design uses WordPress for most of our clients’ websites, so if  you are looking for someone to help you out with WordPress, we would be happy to answer your questions and even design and develop your WordPress site. read more

Welcome!

Welcome to TM Designs’ newest look!  We decided to keep the site as simple and clean as possible in this latest version!  We hope you enjoy taking a look through the site.  We have now added a blog page as well where we hope to post updates about the company, tips for eBusiness owners/designers/developers, and overall helpful information!

We look forward to talking to each and every one of our visitors, so make sure to comment as much as you like!  We also would appreciate hearing from you through our contact form or via direct email (info@designtm.ca).

Thanks for reading. Feel free to comment!

- TM Design “Professional, Affordable, Reliable”