After 14 million downloads of WordPress 3.2, WordPress 3.3 is being released to the wild today. Codenamed “Sonny” in honor of the jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, WordPress 3.3 is available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard.
WordPress, which had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, has a number of excellent new features.
The media uploader has also been much improved with a drag-and-drop image uploader. A new menu feature allows users to hover over menus for navigation. There is improved co-editing notifications and support. And WordPress 3.3 now comes with a Tumblr importer and is optimized for the iPad.
For Users
Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. We’ve also been thinking a ton about what the WordPress experience is like for people completely new to the software. Version 3.3 has significant improvements there with pointer tips for new features included in each update, a friendly welcome message for first-time users, and revamped help tabs throughout the interface. Finally they’ve improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support.
For Developers
There is heaps for developers also. I would recommend starting your exploration with the new editor API, new jQuery version, better ways to hook into the help screens, more performant post-slug-only permalinks, and of course the entire list of improvements on the Codex and in Trac.
I just completed a new website for Bend’s Community Center. It began as a pre-built WordPress Template and I customized the design and function to suit the organization. It includes Search Engine Optimization and a Content Management System.
They are already coming up on the first page of Google for the Keywords “Bend Oregon Painting” and even better on the first page for “Bend Oregon Painting Company”.
“Cleanline Painting is a Bend Oregon painting company serving all of Central Oregon. At Cleanline the company owner works alongside his crew on all jobs, from start to finish, giving you quality larger painting companies can’t match.”
I just finished a new business website for Bend Oregon based Perry Jones Interior Design. This website was built on a WordPress platform. This gives the client a C.M.S. (Content Management System) to sign into and do edits if they so wish to. This website has a smart gallery viewer to showcase her excellent portfolio. We used a font from the new Google Web Fonts directory.
When you get online through your favorite web-broswer, whether it be Chrome, FireFox, Safari, or I.E. you just might take a bit for granted. You might assume that you’ll be able to access whatever Web Adress you want to. We listen to podcasts, watch online video whether that be T.V or Netflix. Generally you have had good reason to think that all these features will be available to you at the same speed and availablity. This is due to Network Neutrality. This is the thing that keeps the internet open and free without structural preference. The internet service providers are not allowed to give preference among the various kinds of online content.
There is some discussion going on concerning whether or not the cable/internet companies would be able to charge websites and applications online for being able to send their information at faster speeds. Right now this is not so, but it might change. This will change the rules of the game altogether. Watch this video below to get an idea of what is going on. : )
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
This is a great tool to cue in the robots to all of you websites links. This helps with your search engine standings.
Media Converter
http://www.mediaconverter.org
Do you have media files that don’t play on your platform? This is a great tool that will convert your video files into the format that you need.
Woo Rank
http://www.woorank.com
This ranks your website listing what bits of your website are connected to the various and sundry social media networking sites.
SEO Workers
http://www.seoworkers.com/
This does a great job of searching your site and giving feedback to what can be changed!
Do you have media files that don’t play on your platform? This is a great tool that will convert your video files into the format that you need.
This Chrome extension allows you to pick color from any webpage or from a customized advanced color picker. It is an essential tool for web developers!
Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info, one-click upload to share. Support PNG and shortcuts.
This is a Chrome extension that generates random “Lorem Ipsum” text, a standard latin dummy text often needed in the development of new websites used as filler when the final text is not known or available yet.
The Google Chrome S.E.O. extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization tools that can help you with competitive analysis, keyword research, back link checks, pagerank checks and other daily S.E.O. tasks.
I just completed a Search Engine Optimization project for Bend Oregon’s Architect Scott Gilbride for his existing website at scottgilbride.com
Scott’s business website when first created, had previously ranked near the top in search engines, but over time and with the rules of the game having changed greatly since then, he found that his website had slipped beyond notice in the search engines.
I updated his website with improved and more specific keywords through out his website adding/adjusting the meta-tags, page-titles, title-tags, and the image alt-tags. His website had many images which were not utilizing the full potential of the alt-tag. The site also did not make the most of the individual page’s title-tags.
After including an S.E.O. package to his site, within just a few weeks he is now showing up on the first page and often on the very top of Google’s search engine. Here are the results. Check it out:
bend oregon architect
bend oregon residential architect(s)
bend oregon commercial architect(s)
bend residential architect(s)
bend commercial architect(s)
bend oregon sustainable architect(s)
bend oregon modern architect(s)
bend oregon traditional architect(s)
bend oregon alternative architect(s)
bend oregon custom architect(s)
oregon modern architect(s)
oregon sustainable architect(s)
Contact me (info@wattswebstudio.com) if you would like to service your current website or new website with S.E.O. Your S.E.O. results can be even better when we build your website from the ground up with S.E.O in mind at the very inception. There are many structural elements that can built into the very file names of each page which most websites are not currently utilizing. Let me help your personal or business web presence be ahead of the rest.
