WordPress for Schools

WordPress is the ideal web publishing platform for schools and education organisations with limited budgets, quick turnaround times and the requirement to easily add new site functionality.

We have developed a number of WordPress Website Designs for schools and these have incorporated some of the following relevant functionality:

Easily maintainable school calendars
Subscribe to newsletter feature for school news updates
Class pages that can be developed and maintained by pupils but controlled by teachers

Examples of some WordPress School websites we have delivered:

WordPress Facebook Plugin

WordPress powers more than 16% of the web, and Facebook, aspires to be the web for its more than 900 million users. So, in that context, the integration makes quite a lot of sense for both parties.

However the integration is not for the in-experienced and involves a lot of terminology so we recommend clients contact us for help.

The benefits of the WordPress to Facebook integration are:

Publishing a post on WordPress will share the post automatically to your timeline
Link to the page will be share
Post to an author’s Facebook Timeline whenever a post is made public
Mention Facebook friends and pages. New posts will be published to the timelines of the mentioned account(s) and displayed alongside the post.
Like, send, and subscribe buttons can be easily added to a post to drive social distribution with custom settings scoped to your Facebook application identifier.
Facebook Comments Box social plugin including noscript fallbacks for easy indexing by search engines.
Open Graph protocol integration to help your content stand out in Facebook newsfeed, Twitter Cards, Windows 8 bookmarks, and other consuming agents.
Recommendations bar helps visitors discover more content on your site by recommending other articles and encouraging Like shares.

CMS Market Share 2013

WordPress continues to be the dominant CMS with a market share of 59% for Open source solutions and continues to go from strength to strength as Drupal and Joomla start to slip away.

WordPress has an overall CMS Market share of 54% of all websites with a CMS and some 21% of all websites on the Internet and this is clearly continuing to grow and the scope and breadth of the solution begins to gain acceptance amongst corporate clients.

To obtain these figures we have taken a sample of other surveys and then worked out a median market share.

Generally the WordPress platform continues to improve with every release and is the best cms on the web.

WordPress = Best CMS

Why WordPress?

Here our are thoughts on why WordPress is an excellent choice :

Use: User -friendly

WordPress is software for people .
True to the motto: “If my dad can publish an article with picture, then you can too! …”
The WordPress admin interface is highly customisable.

Benefits: Highly Flexible

WordPress is renowened for its flexibility as a CMS (content management system) – don’t be fooled this is as good for amateurs as it is for pro’s
Perfect as a CMS. As a blog anyway. And as a forum. And as a community. And as Member site…CompanyIntranet
More than 20,000 free plugins available plus thousands of premium plugins.
What is good enough for large newspapers, universities and FTSE companies also works for small and medium businesses, clubs, organizations, churches, schools and individuals…

Benefits: No licensing fees

Experience the power of free and open source software. A global user and developer community to improve the system every day. And since 2004.
This eliminates dependence on a single vendor / developer

Benefits: safety always in focus

The WordPress security team are constantly updating and improving the platform

Benefits: plugins. Plugins. Plugins.

One of the great success stories of the WordPress ecosystem.
There is nothing that does not exist …

Use: distribution / Transferability

For WordPress, there are more developers, suppliers, agents than any other CMS
Almost always WordPress developers are cheaper than comparable developers for “Drupal”, “Typo3″ etc.
The software is free and open source, and thus if you want to find someone else to manage your site then you can, easily

Benefits: Global Community

Multilingualism is also no problem with WordPress.
And finally almost 20% of the global Internet runs on WordPress…safety in numbers and millions of other folks can’t be wrong!

WordPress School Website

We recently completed a WordPress School Website for a primary school in the UK.

WordPress is a fantastic tool for school websites;

easy to use
no license fees
flexible and media content driven platform

Many schools in the UK have been provided with “Dreamweaver” by their local authorities : this is a technical, inflexible and difficult to master website solution for teachers and education. WordPress overcomes these hurdles with it’s rich and easy to use functionality.

Company Intranet

WordPress is the worlds most widely used Content Management Systems and is ideal as a cost effective, easy to use Company Intranet solution.

We recommend WordPress as an Company Intranet Tool since:

WordPress is open source hence there are no expensive licenses or software maintenance fees to pay
Easy to use, quick to deploy and our Intranet sites looks great
Quicker return on investment
WordPress is the world’s fastest growing content management system and powers over 19% of the world’s website
WordPress is very easy to use and has an intuitive interface. Adding new pages, blog posts, images, etc. on a regular basis is a breeze and can be done quickly. Because the technology is so simple, time spent on formatting is greatly reduced.
WordPress is a self-contained system and does not require HTML editing software (such as Adobe Contribute or Dreamweaver). You can create a new page or blog post, format text, upload images (and edit them), upload documents, video files, image galleries, etc. all without the need for additional HTML or FTP software.
No more waiting for your web designer to make simple updates to your site. With WordPress Web Design, you have control of nearly every aspect of your site and can easily make those simple updates yourself.
Want to add an event calendar, video gallery, Twitter Feed, Facebook Fan Box, and more to your site? WordPress makes this possible with plugins, most of which are free or very reasonably priced.
Your Site Can Grow as your WordPress Company Intranet Grows – WordPress sites are very scalable. You can have hundreds of thousands of pages or blog posts on your site and the performance of the site will not be compromised in the least.
In our experience WordPress is the Best CMS
WordPress Support from our experienced in-house team

A well designed WordPress Intranet can empower member of your organisation to better do their job by giving them quick, secure access to accurate, relevant knowledge and information.

We know an intranet designed, managed and used in the correct way can not only enhance your employees working life and reduce risk to the business but also assist in growing your business and increasing profits.

WordPress Website Design Prices

WordPress is a great tool with which to build and maintain websites – which is why we recommend it to our clients.

WordPress is an “open source” tool – meaning there are no costs for the basic WordPress software; this means it it cheaper to build and maintain than most other platforms.

WordPress Website Design Prices guidance is as follows:

£200 per page based on an agreed design

This includes the following:

All Sites have Image Slideshow capability
Integrated Blog
Site built on World’s leading content management system
Hosted on our own platform
Rapid deployment
Easily maintainable content – free from ongoing web updates costs
Frees up marketing team to focus on business development
Full social media integration – twitter + linked-in + instagram + facebook
Contact form integration with Mailchimp or Campaign Monitor marketing lists

We also offer WordPress Support packages.

Please drop us a note using the contact form below.

WordPress Hack Fix

As WordPress Web Design experts we are able to offer consulting services to fix your hacked WordPress blog.

If you are looking for WordPress Hack fix service please use the contact form below.

Our WordPress fix service covers:

Identification of the hacking or defacement root cause
Isolation of the WordPress hack / trojan horse or virus
Cleansing of the hacked WordPress blog
Restoration of your blog / WordPress Website
Update of your WordPress installation and plugins to the latest WordPress version
Installation of WordPress security enhancements and WordPress security hardening

The cost of this service is £350.

Please contact us for further information

Web CMS Market Share Best CMS – WordPress

WordPress has been confirmed as the web’s top Content Management System (CMS) with over 54% of the CMS market.

Lagging behind on 9% is Joomla with Drupal fading fast on around 6%, the remaining CMS have less than a 5% share of the market.

WordPress continues to go from strength to strength and it’s free, easy of use, updated regularly and clearly users have voted with their keyboards and have chosen the superior functionality that WordPress offers.

As a Web Design company we choose to use WordPress Web Design since it provides a great Return on Investment for our clients. Many clients moving from more static, inflexible sites soon become enthusiastic WordPress users.

Indeed more recently as we have seen the Software as a Service boom WordPress fits this model well and many clients are coming to us with requirements for WordPress Intranets and other wider uses of WordPress’ fantastic content management capabilities

For WordPress Web Design WordPress Consultants WordPress Experts WordPress intranet WordPress Website, WordPress Support please drop us a note – as you can see we are happy to talk anything WordPress related.

Web Design Cost

At Titanium we won’t baffle you with geeky jargon and technical requirements. We’ll keep it simple and talk your language. We’ll listen to your ideas, your plans and goals and then demonstrate how we can work with you to form a long lasting commercial partnership that helps you to achieve your organisations ambitions.

We’re experts in the delivery of cost effective websites and we fully undersgand that Web Design Cost is often a key driver – websites and would love to share our experiences with you on how we have helped to transform the turnover and profits for our customers.

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