WordPress – Introducing a Modern New Design
Just when we thought that WordPress could not become any more impressive…..
As we all know, WordPress is a constantly evolving entity and with the recently introduced WordPress 3.8 update, offers a bright and fresh new look to the entire admin dashboard with a greater emphasis on user friendliness.
Say goodbye to a subdued appearance and a dreary shades of grey colour scheme and say hello to a bigger, bolder, more colourful design to help keep your company’s website at the cutting edge of design technology!
Modern Appearance
The newly designed WordPress dashboard offers users a fresh, uncluttered design which embraces exceptional levels of clarify whilst remaining an air of simplicity.
Updated Typography
To complement the new design a new typeface has been utilised. The Open Sans typeface provides simple, friendly text that is absolutely ideal for both desktop and mobile viewing alike.
Improved Contrast
No liberties have been taken in regards to legibility to create the new WordPress design. With enhanced contrast and large, comfortable type, the new design is easy to read and a pleasure to navigate.
WordPress on every device
The days of only being able to use a desktop computer to access the internet are now long gone. Fortunately, the WordPress interface has evolved and regardless of 
whether you are access the internet via your smartphone, laptop, phone, tablet, notebook or desktop, WordPress will adapt and you’ll feel right at home.
High definition at high speed
Not only is WordPress now sharper than ever with new vector-based icons that scale to your screen, a change in design now ensures that the pages load significantly faster than in the past.
Admin colour schemes to match your personality
The powerful new WordPress update also includes the ability to tailor the colour scheme with 8 new colours available.
Colour schemes can be easily previewed and changed through the profile page.
Twenty Fourteen, a sleek new magazine theme
Turn your blog into a magazine
You now have the ability to create a beautiful magazine-style site with WordPress and Twenty Fourteen. Simply choose a grid or a slider to display featured content on your homepage and then customize your site with three widget areas or change your layout with two page templates.
With a striking design that does not compromise our trademark simplicity, Twenty Fourteen is WordPress’ most potent default them yet.
For more information regarding the new WordPress update please click here.
Further Information
Footprint Web Design have been at the forefront of web design and development for nearly 20 years. If you are looking for a website that truly represents your business, or advice on how to make your site stand out, then contact us today on 01883 372 488, or via email at info@footprint.co.uk.
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WordPress 101: An Intro to Your Dashboard
You’ve got shiny new WordPress site, but how do you use it?
With such a huge variety of themes, visual options and add-ons, it’s no surprise that WordPress is now
the most popular platform for building blogs and websites. It’s stylish, straightforward and simple to use. Over the next few blogs, we’re going to show you just how easy using WordPress really is. From finding your way around your dashboard, to editing images – and everything in between – we can help you take charge of editing and updating your own site.
Welcome to your Dashboard
When you log in to your WordPress account, you’ll be greeted by a screen similar to the below:
This is your dashboard!
From here, you can improve, update, edit and view everything to do with your website. You can even change the layout of your dashboard, to make things you use frequently easier to find and access.
In the top right of the screen, you’ll see “Howdy, (username)” – pretty useful to make sure you’re logged into the right site, with the right account. Just below this, you’ll see a link marked “Screen Options” (highlighted by the red arrow). This will allow you to 
amend which boxes appear in your dashboard. By checking, or unchecking any of the boxes, you’ll be able to amend those that appear on the main screen of your dashboard – leaving room for those you find most useful.
You can also change the order of the boxes that appear in your dashboard, by dragging and dropping them. If there’s something you use all the time, and need it at the top, just hold your cursor on the title bar, click, hold and move it to where you want it.
To the left of your screen, you’ll see a list menu. This is your navigation menu. From here, you can do everything. Writing blogs, moderate comments, adding new webpages, etc. All things we’ll go into over the next few blogs. At the bottom of this list, you’ll see an option titled “Collapse Menu”. Clicking this will reduce your navigation menu down, allowing your main page to take up more room on your screen (particularly useful if you’re editing images). To reinstate it, simply click the right-pointing arrow.
In the next blog, we’ll cover creating posts & pages, as well as adding images to your image library. If there are any things you have queries on, or would like to know more about, please contact us and we’ll put that in the blog as well.
Further Information
Footprint Web Design have been at the forefront of web design and development for nearly 20 years. If you are looking for a website that truly represents your business, or advice on how to make your site stand out, then contact us today on 01883 372 488, or via email at info@footprint.co.uk.
Facebook to take on Google?
Facebook’s 10-year plan involves taking on the world’s largest (and most successful) search engine.
Clash of the titans, or a one-horse race?
You heard correctly. In Facebook‘s Q4 2013 Earnings Conference Call (the transcript of which can be read here), Mark Zuckerberg outlined their plans to expand Facebook’s remit to include a comprehensive search function, one that would rival Google – the search engine that’s practically singlehandedly ruling the internet.
In his speech, he outlined 3 key areas that, he believes, would drive the success of this venture. These being:
- Facebook has a bigger “index” of data on hand than any other search engine.
- Facebook’s artificial intelligence unit is working to make that data available through Graph Search, Facebook’s search engine.
- The final product will be rolled out on mobile devices so that people can ask Facebook for advice and solve their problems using voice recognition on their phones.
He’s anticipated that the final product will be rolled out over the next decade.
The idea was revealed after Zuckerberg was asked about Facebook’s Graph Search function (which hasn’t been particularly well-received, mostly due to the fact it’s not particularly easy to use).
His actual response was:
“So the first release
As you can see, a lot of it is open to interpretation – is Zuckerberg purposefully trash-talking Google’s “key-word only” results; what is he actually including when he refers to the “index” (if he’s including actual web pages, then Google might feel that THEY have the larger index)?
It’s a huge vision. Although, judging by Facebook’s stratospheric success in the past and the fact they are funding the introduction of reliable internet connections in the developing world, it’s pretty in line with how the Facebook team plan things. Think big.
But, how successful will it be, for Facebook to take on Google? There’s no doubt Google will have their own expansion plans, in order to retain their place at the top of the search engine charts. But, while they further mine the realms of ranking and internet “quality control”, will that leave a gap in the market for a more intuitive and holistic search function? Only time will tell.
Watch this space!
Further Information
Footprint Web Design have been at the forefront of web design and SEO for 18 years. Contact us for advice on how to get your business noticed online – we have packages to suit all business sizes and budgets.
