Designing a website is difficult. Paying to have one designed is much easier and less time-consuming, but it's certainly consuming of something else: your wallet. However, the added bonus in time can be worth it if you really know nothing about designing web design. After paying so much (many web designs run for at least a few thousand dollars), you may want to put all of your trust in the web d... »
Everyone knows that the Internet isn’t short on information about starting your first WordPress endeavour. When I first started with WordPress around 2 years ago, I Googled, and Googled, and Googled until I had all the information I needed to take my first steps into the wonderful world of WordPress, so to save you the trouble I thought I’d write this guide. This is by no means exhaust... »
Back in March we wrote about a pretty cool plugin called MP6. What MP6 does is give your WordPress admin interface a more modern look than what it currently has. It’s a pretty cool feature and we use MP6 here at RefuGeeks. But today we learnt about a new admin theme called Bootstrap Admin that gives users another way of getting a modern look to the WordPress back-end. The default look of the... »
Popular web host, DreamHost have launched a new managed WordPress service dubbed DreamPress. The service seems to be a good balance between basic shared hosting, and other managed WordPress services like WP Engine. As mentioned, DreamPress offers a lot more than just shared hosting that is “optimised” for WordPress. This really seems to be the closest thing to a premium managed WordPre... »
WordPress celebrated it’s 10 year anniversary last week, so to celebrate this, we thought we would bring you this very interesting infographic made by the guys over at MarketPress. The inforgraphic will take you through some very interesting nuggets of information that you may not have known about the popular blogging platform. It also explains some important landmarks in the history of Word... »
As the facets of technology continue to grow, it’s becoming more and more clear that finding and getting a job online is equal to finding and getting a job offline. There are tons of online job boards that you can look at in order to find the job or career that you’re looking for and certainly, thanks to the economic downturn within the United States and the world, the Internet has ope... »
Today, internet giant Yahoo! have announced that they have purchased the popular online blogging platform Tumblr for a huge 1.1 billion dollars. But is this a good thing? Yahoo! have officially announced this by way of a post on their client stakeholder site, Yahoo! have given more details about the acquisition along with stating that they will be keeping Yahoo! and Tumblr seperate. If you do... »
Our good friends over at ThemeFuse have decided to share a special gift with our readers: 3 WordPress themes. If you run a WordPress based site or blog, maybe you've been thinking that it's time to upgrade the style or mix things up a bit. If so, this giveaway comes at the perfect time for you. The lucky winners will be able to download one completely free WordPress theme from ThemeFuse. There... »