WordPress blog

Our team of WordPress experts regularly publish WordPress focused articles as well as covering tips and tricks for SEO and digital marketing.

The dark side of the Daily Deal

Daily Deal web sites: loads of new customers, great exposure for your business, but be aware of the side effects these deals may bring.

Australian online marketing trends – 2011

A general round up of social media and online marketing usage in Australia

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WordPress plugins

WordPress plugins, they make our work as developers much quicker and in turn websites are less expensive for our customers. Here are some that we’ve started using recently.

Lemon

Does your domain name suck?

Choosing the right domain name can be fraught with mistakes, read this quick summary to avoid common mistakes.

WordPress Security

Over the weekend I came across a new resource on the topic that I had not seen before, wptavern.com. The reason for stopping by there was a note on twitter that mentioned there was a post about wordpress security. After reading it I’ve bookmarked it to ensure that the steps are implemented with each new…

Is your web site looking its best?

It’s true, the web browser wars of the late 90’s are over but it doesn’t mean as a web developer or a web site owner that it is time to be complacent. When said ‘wars’ were still running hot it was hard work for web developers. Trying to make your site look good in Internet…

Web Site Statistics: Are your users coming via the front door?

Learn more about Web Site Statistic.
This instalment discusses Entry Pages – How users enter your web site.

Automate newsletter signups with Mailchimp & Gravity Forms

Integration between WordPress and MailChimp is easy to do. There are a number of different methods, to get the two systems talking, our preferred is to use the Gravity Forms Plugin, read on to discover what it can do.

Analytics Data

Web Site Statistics: Understand Your Site’s Performance

This post is the first in a series to help web site owner understand and use web site statistics.

Why specialise in wordpress?

It is true, here at The DMA we love WordPress. We use it for 100% of our own web site properties, and we also use it exclusively for our client work. So, what is it? WordPress started life as a blogging tool but now it is very well regarded as a complete content management system,…

Designing for wordpress? – Part II

If you have arrived here without reading part 1, you might like to start there. In this post we look at the functionality that is available with wordpress plugins so that when you’re designing for wordpress you have more of an idea of what is possible and what to include in your design that is…

Designing for wordpress?

While wordpress is very flexible it’s worth having a few things in your mind when doing the site design. We commonly work with external graphic designers who are working for one of our clients or come to us directly to build a wordpress theme for a site they are creating. We have been providing for a…