Top 5 WordPress Corporate/Business Themes

Websites are one of the most powerful marketing tools you can use to promote your business. Thanks to numerous themes on WordPress, it is easy to create a corporate/business website. Image Credits: Flickr If you want to create an engaging and striking corporate/business website, here are the top five themes you should use: Divi Divi is one of the most secure, lightweight, feature-rich, and fast-loading corporate/business themes for WordPress. Divi is aesthetically versatile and flexible, mobile-friendly, responsive, and customizable. The elements, shortcodes, features, and widgets of Divi are configurable, convenient to use, innovative, and they save you a lot of time. After spending a small amount of time with Divi, you will learn how to make the most out of Divi. Uncode If you are planning on designing a website that has an intuitive and accessible interface, then you should go for Uncode. Uncode is a versatile WordPress theme that improves the performance of your page. When you use Uncode, it shows your visitors that your business values attention to detail and quality. If you want to modify the aesthetics of this theme, you can use the Visual Composer tool. Even if you don’t have knowledge on programming, you can use this theme. Jevelin Jevelin is another multi-purpose, easy to use, responsive, flexible, and powerful WordPress theme. Jevelin has demo websites on it, making it easy to design your business/corporate website. With the help of its plugins, tools, and templates, you can create websites that look polished and professional. You can also fine-tune your images as Jevelin has a set of admin panel tools. Massive Dynamic Developed by professional...
How to Optimize WordPress for Speed?

How to Optimize WordPress for Speed?

Image Credits: Flickr Do you want your WordPress site to load as fast as it possibly can? When your WordPress site loads fast, you can increase the number of page views, improve the experience of your users, and it helps with SEO. As the average attention span of humans is decreasing, you need to ensure your WordPress website loads fast. Here are five ways you can optimize your WordPress for speed. Use content delivery network (CDN) Content delivery network (CDN) will help in optimizing your WordPress site for speed. The content delivery network will deliver all the static files the visitors on your website need at a much faster rate. CDN uses servers that are close to your visitors than the ones your WordPress website uses. CDN ensures that visitors will always reach the cache, not the servers. It is much faster to access cache than it is to request data from the site’s servers. Utilize only speed optimized WordPress themes You need to choose the right WordPress theme because it has a significant impact on the load time of your website. When you have to choose WordPress themes, search for ones made by iThemes, StudioPress, and Headway Themes. Their themes have a lean and strong framework. Using this type of framework, they make color themes for particular site niches and types. The main reason why these themes are extremely popular is that they use this WordPress framework as their foundation. Install only the best WordPress Caching Plugins As all pages on WordPress are dynamic, they will build pages only when there is a visitor. The process of building...

How do You Manage a WordPress Website?

WordPress is by far the best CMS (Content Management System) in the world and managing a WordPress website is also relatively easy. You may be able to manage the content of your website easily, but if you want to manage your website independently, you will need to learn more about the platform. You need a manager code, hosting requirements, performance, security, backups, plugins, and every other aspect that influences performance. How do you manage the themes and plugins? The code powering your WordPress site comes from WordPress, the theme, and the plugins you use. Keeping your themes and plugins up to date is essential in ensuring continued stability. Periodic updates will fix bugs, loopholes, and security patches and they will keep your site free of risks. Choosing the right themes and plugins, to begin with, is essential and so is the source of the themes and plugins. What about hosting and site speed? You don’t need to be continually worried about your web host, but you need to be aware of the limits of the server. If your site suddenly generates more traffic than your web host can handle, your site will break. A good way around this dilemma is to opt for a cloud hosting plan that allows you to scale up as necessary without placing any additional strain on resources. Based on the amount of traffic you receive, you may need to cache your pages and improve your coding. Backups are important! You need to install a plugin that regularly updates your site automatically without your inputs. While a lot of quality WP plugins are free, you...
What are the Advantages of Using a WordPress Website?

What are the Advantages of Using a WordPress Website?

As of 2017, WordPress is the most popular website building tool in the world. It is very user-friendly and you do not need any technical knowledge to use it. WordPress has been the leader in the market for a while now, but what exactly has propelled it ahead of HTML/CSS, Drupal, Joomla, and drag and drop builders? No HTML or FTP software is needed With WordPress, you do not require any additional HTML or FTP software to create new pages, format text, upload documents, and perform numerous other tasks. WordPress is a self-contained system that requires zero knowledge of HTML coding to efficiently run the site. You do not need to hire a dedicated programmer to make changes on your WordPress-built site. Highest number of themes of plugins WordPress offers a much greater amount of plugins and themes than any other content management system and you can basically add any feature you want. It has a litany of paid and unpaid plugins that can suit every conceivable purpose you have. In addition, there are thousands of developers around the world constantly developing new features for the platform. SEO friendly Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any websites, and WordPress websites have numerous codes that make them ideal for Google indexing. Every single page can be customized for SEO, so you can assign higher SEO priority to your most popular pages. Each post and page can have its own meta tags, titles, and keywords and they can be optimized for SEO. Responsive web design WordPress is incredibly easy to use irrespective of what device you are using. Most of...
DNS and You

DNS and You

We all know and use domain names to find the websites we want to go to.  They are the text versions (www.inodecloud.com) of the Internet Protocol addresses (IP) that locate the content we want to find.  The concept is pretty simple – domain name systems (DNS) are registries that link textual domain names to numerical IP addresses like a phone book – but DNS can be applied in ways that make websites accessible in ways that take technical and regional differences into account. Before we move on to application of DNS you should know a few things about how they work.  There are several factors like aliases (CNAME), reverse DNS lookups and zone based registration that make DNS protocols powerful tools for consumers and providers. DNS Zone Authority Zone authority is the system that Domains use to delegate space to subdomains that are found at the same location (IP address).  Your IP address is tailored to your domain name and changes as new pages are added to your website.  For example, individual IP addresses begin at 0.0.0 (root host which can be your computer or your ISP’s root server) and grow as new locations are added to server space.  A zone is a portion of your IP address that is reserved for subdomains that require autonomy. CNAME Aliases are used in conjunction with search engine optimization.  They are additional domain names that link to the same address.  Aliases can serve several purposes like accounting for misspelled domain names and increasing your search engine ranking.  Platforms like Interworks come with tools for adding aliases to your domain.  Otherwise you could...
Automate JavaScript with Open Source Tools

Automate JavaScript with Open Source Tools

If you are concerned with having secure and up to date code and don’t have unlimited time to spend testing your code, automation tools are a must have for developers.  Recently JavaScript developers have been in high demand and for anyone interested in taking advantage of that expanding market should get to know the tools that already exist to make configuring your system and finishing your work faster and easier. The JavaScript language relies on libraries that are contained within dependencies that are continually updated and need to be downloaded as they are released.  It is possible to collect and install these files manually but package managers like Bower and Npm can reduce the process to typing a few lines of code. The actual process of development is made much easier by a simple extension for Google Chrome called LiveReload will save you the trouble of having to refresh the page every time changes are made to your source code.  LiveReload can be used in conjunction with the automation tool Grunt for live updates to your webpage that can be seen while you edit your code. Grunt and its competitor Gulp are both great optimization tools.  For a developer who needs more customization options at the expense of a slightly heavier program, Grunt is for you.  Gulp has all of the same computing power without the tinkering. Here is a quick tutorial from the Pragmatic Bookshelf, a developer training website on using Grunt in conjunction with Livereload.   There are automation tools for use on the front end that can save time as well.  Launch Effect is a WordPress...