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Wordpress for Tourism and Travel Industry websites

June 4, 2010 By javajoba Leave a Comment
Wordpress theme for cvbs and tourist boards

This Wordpress theme (LifeStyle by Studiopress) is proven to be the best design for travel industry and tourism or city portal website. This design can also be used for a large travel agency or company with a large inventory of products or services.

It's built to list 4 topics with multiple listings or daily, weekly or monthly postings and there's a section at the top to feature special topics.

The video display is easy to update with new videos from Youtube. And can be a great marketing tool for retailers and hold visitor contests.

This theme is compatible with WordPress and is widget-ready. The Theme is customizable and provides an ideal solutions for cvbs and tourist boards who wish to build a city portal web site.

Please contact me with any questions about using this web design theme for your site.

There are several other theme designs for smaller companies or individually owned companies like travel agencies, real estate or a doctors office, that are easy to update and manage.

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Wordpress 2.7 is out

April 22, 2010 By javajoba Leave a Comment

Wordpress 2.7 is a complete rebuild. Not only on the inside but the outside too. 2.7 brings a lots of changes, the biggest one is a complete overhaul of the dashboard interface. Instead of having navigation elements on the top of the page, everything is now on the left side of the screen, similar to most Web mail services and Google’s home page.

Here is a quick look at some of the changes.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyVDsTAduiY

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WordPress Updating

March 10, 2008 By javajoba Leave a Comment
WordPress is adding a new description to their Resume:

I Always thought blogging was social, but now Wordpress will take it to a new level. The goal is to leave MySpace and FaceBook in the dust.

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Matt Mullenweg says; The world doesn’t need another social network, it needs a thousand networks that let you own your data and interconnect using open standards. We invest countless hour giving our data to networks like MySpace, essentially sharecropping on their land for the privilege of being able to connect to our friends. It’s our friends, our time, our connections, our data — it should be our software.
It make sense to have control of the look and feel of your design, but also what and who you share your pages with.

The update has been extended for another week to March 17th +/- a day or more, and it maybe a couple of more days before it finally gets to your browser. You can expect there's going to be some work to the themes and plugins to upgrade to the new 2.5.

Because of the extra time it will take before all the plugins and themes are ready there will be some time to do some preparation & cleaning including:

  1. Change and clean the navigation: I always recommend a well thought out navigation system and looking at my own sites, well Its a good time to re-think the categories.
  2. Fix broken links internal and external links.
  3. Make sure each page has all the meta tags, title, keywords, and description tags.
  4. Check for missing image tags: alt, height and width tags.
  5. Add a contact pages.

I do back ups weekly and it will be part of the requirements for upgrading to the new WordPress 2.5 so it you haven't done that in a while know is the time, and check it to make sure it's readable.

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Avis Rent a Car’s New Blog

June 27, 2007 By javajoba Leave a Comment

Maybe I should say, Not so New Blog, it's been around since January 2007.

Avis is putting a good team together to manage their blog: Eibhlin Payne- Head of Customer Support in UK, Stephen Spiers- Intranet Webmaster, Avis UK, and Xavier Vallee- Head of Marketing in UK. They all have pretty impressive resumes.

The site it self is customer focused. If you look at the topics there's lots of information and helpful hints for using Avis.

There's a topic "We try harder" (also the name of the web site), at first thought: It doesn't work with the rest of the topics, but when I clicked on the link I was pretty impressed how Avis markets themselves with charities, fund raisers, and marketing through the years.

The blog itself uses Wordpress to manage the blog and the design is their own. I like Wordpress and use it myself, but that's another blog.

As a travel agent you can feel safe about sending your customers to We Try Harder.

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