The popularity of blogs is a relatively new thing in the world wide web. Over the past few years, blogs have grown in functionality and usefullness, to the vital role they play in search engine recognition and social networking today. Corvus Design Studio offers customized WordPress blogs and content management systems to bring your site into the world of Web 2.0!
WordPress offers highly functional and flexible blog systems that can be transformed into complete websites, content managment systems, and even e-commerce applications. WordPress blogs are very useful to network, bring traffic to your site, create a repore and communication with your viewers, and build backlinks to your site.
WordPress blogs and applications can be used to augment an existing CSS website, or comprise the entirety of your website.
Invaluable SEO Benefits of a Blog
Not only are blogs made for ease of information sharing, but they are extremely effective organic search engine marketing tools. Blogs are ranked and indexed by Google quickly, and accessed by networks of bloggers where a standard CSS website would not be found. WordPress blogs inherently use several key search engine optimization methods, including tags, image descriptions, priority HTML tags, and static page names. They have built-in seo features, and the more you use your blog, the more effective these features are. The SEO and networking benefits of a Blog are invaluable in today's Web 2.0.
Extra Features We Include
We start from scratch and customize your blog using CSS and XHTML. Flash elements can also be used to a bit of motion and aesthetics.
We install several security plugins to prevent automated hacks and malicious persons from commandeering your blog. We also install your blog and database using non-standard usernames, database prefixes, and common passwords... all elements that common hackers know to look for.
If you have a Twitter account, we can feed your blog posts to Twitter. If you don't have an account, we'll open one up for you and get you started. This is a great way to start a network and bring traffic to and from your blog.
We setup plugins and other devices to prevent or block automated spambots from attacking the comment forms on your blog.
We setup contact forms with CAPTCHA, or human verification codes, to protect them from spammers.
Standard Features of WordPress Blogs (adapted from wordPress.org)
The coding behind WordPress blogs is up to current w3 standards (valid XHTML and CSS).
Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.
Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static "About" page that you manage through WordPress. For an idea of how powerful this is, the entire WordPress.org site could be run off WordPress alone. (We don't for technical mirroring reasons.)
Links allows you to create, maintain, and update any number of blogrolls through your administration interface. This is much faster than calling an external blogroll manager.
WordPress comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and you can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you switch with a single click. Have a new design every day.
WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and we are committed to supporting future standards as they develop.
Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.
Out of the box WordPress comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further.
WordPress has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.
You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.
You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.
WordPress uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands. For information about the proper use of such entities see Peter Sheerin's article The Trouble With Em ’n En.
If you've dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks before you know why they have a bad name: if you have any sort of HTML they butcher it by putting tags after every new line indiscriminately, breaking your formatting and validation. Our function for this intelligently avoids places where you already have breaks and block-level HTML tags, so you can leave it on without worrying about it breaking your code.
WordPress' highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.
WordPress comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and you can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you switch with a single click. Have a new design every day.
WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and we are committed to supporting future standards as they develop.
Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.
Out of the box WordPress comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further.
WordPress has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.
You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.
Well, they stem from our company name. Jessica Miller, our founder and lead designer, chose the name Corvus as an homage to her favorite types of birds (those of the genus Corvus). Jessica gets a lot of her inspiration from nature, particularly wildlife, and wanted to incorporate her love of nature into her business life. This often shows in her design style, which has been described as "organic" and "ethereal".
