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WordPress Blog Design and Development

Blogging is a great form of interactive social networking that allows you to share your expertise and engage in a two way conversation with customers. Readers can easily comment on, share, and bookmark your content.

Blogs get listed on search engines quickly and typically rank well because of the frequent content updates. Another advantage of a blog is the built in RSS feed. An RSS feed allows visitors to get your blog updates through their feed reader.

Smart Solutions will help you:

• Determine if a blog is right for you and your business
• Identify your audience
• Choose your blog subject matter and prepare or write content for your blog
• Select a blogging platform such as Wordpress or Blogger
• Name your blog including purchasing a domain name if necessary
• Create your blog and customize its look using a pre-made template or designing a completely custom look from scratch
• Develop the blog or blog site using HTML and style sheets
• Incorporate keywords and formatting strategies for search engine optimization
• Post blogs and maintain content

Why WordPress?

• WordPress is open source so it can be used free of charge.
• WordPress is not only a popular blogging tool but it is a powerful content management system as well.  Fresh, unique content helps with search positioning.
• Web-based content management will allow content editors to update the website from any computer with Internet access.
• WordPress sites with useful, popular content will acquire an interactive social community of users. 
• Design themes can be custom built resulting in few design limitations.  Drop down menus, photo sliders, photo galleries, and video can be integrated.
• It is user-friendly and easy to learn. 
• There is a large, thriving system of plug-ins that will allow you to easily extend the functionality of your website without having to build the feature from scratch.
• WordPress is web standards compliant.  Text will be converted to standards compliant XHTML.
• WordPress is search engine friendly.
• There is a large user community backing the development of this software.

Here are some links to useful resources for those interested in blogging.

• Pro Blogger
• Tips for New Bloggers
• Daily Blog Tips
• Twitter Blog Tips