Author: Jamie Marsland

I spent a great day yesterday with Jo Bostock of Pause Consulting. Pause is a coaching & consultancy practice which specialises in individual, team and organisational development. For more information on WordPress Xpress visit our WordPress Xpress page. Here are some screen shots of the soon to be live new Pause website. Front page Clents…

Here are the latest attendee survey results from our WordPress group training course held on the 12th September in Cheltenham. I’m very pleased with the feedback. For more information, and booking details visit our WordPress training page. Highlights 100% rated the course ‘content’ good or very good 100% rated the course ‘presentation slides’ good or…

I’ve just confirmed a date for our first WordPress training course in Manchester. The course will run on the 14th October and will be held at the Rain Bar in central Manchester. It’s a great location and details and booking information can be found on our WordPress training page. A few pictures of our new…

I’ve just finished a great WordPress Xpress day with Amanda Stearn – and here she is talking about what we did. And here is a snapshot of what Amanda’s new website (soon to launch) will look like. If you would like more details take a look at our WordPress Xpress page.   [hr]

Here are our latest customer survey results from our ‘learn WordPress in a day’ training course run on the 15th August in Cheltenham. Highlights 100% rated the content of the WordPress training Good or Very Good 100% rated the presentation slides of the WordPress training Good or Very Good 100% rated the demo examples of…

We have just gone live with this WordPress and Buddypress website. BigSmallWorld.co.uk BigSmallWorld is local community website for residents of Wandsworth. Features: WordPress and Buddypress, Groups, Activity streams, Member profiles, Forums, Google analytics.

I have just confirmed new August and September dates for our next WordPress training courses. Dates are listed below. If you would like to book a place please visit our Learn WordPress in a day training page.

Rebecca Dakin (below) talks about our WordPress Xpress training course.

Gerry King runs a great website services company in Newcastle called http://www.i-netco.co.uk/. Earlier this year Gerry travelled from Newcastle to Cheltenham to attend our “Learn WordPress in 1 day” training course because he wanted to start producing WordPress websites for his clients. Last week Gerry’s first WordPress website went live at http://ryhopeinfantschool.org.uk/. Pootlepress  helped mentor…

Here is a sneak peak at our latest WordPress project. This project uses Buddypress. Buddypress is a powerful plugin for WordPress that [highlight]turns your WordPress website into your very own social network[/highlight], with member profiles, groups, internal messaging and forums. Here is a screenshot of the homepage. [hr] Bigsmallworld.co.uk Bigsmallworld is a project with Wandsworth…

Here are our latest Learn WordPress in a day attendee survey results. We’re really pleased that our WordPress courses continue to get such great feedback. “Learn WordPress in a day” attendee survey results 100% scored the content of the course Very Good 100% scored the presentation slides Good or Very Good 100% scored the use…

Due to demand I’ve added an additional London WordPress training date on May 16th, 2011. Course details and booking information can be found by going to our WordPress training page. Venue information can be found here.

I’ve just finalised our first Scottish WordPress training course date. It will be on Monday 13th June, 2011. Course details can be found here. The course is being held at Edinburgh Capital Hotel 187 Clermiston Road, Edinburgh EH12 6UG To book a place please visit our WordPress training page.

We are now running WordPress training courses in Edinburgh. Below is a list of our upcoming course dates. If you would like to book a place you can do so from our WordPress training page.    

We have just added a new WordPress training date on the 15th April.  Here are the dates for our WordPress courses over the next 5 weeks. To book a place visit our WordPress training page.

Here is a video I made showing you how to add a nice image slider to the front page of your website.

Here is a video showing you how easy it is in WordPress 3.1 to add new menu items.

If you are embarking on a project to create your own content management system my advice would be to stop. Here’s a great video from Japheth Thomson where he dismantles the rationale for starting a bespoke cms project.

Below are the survey results from our March 8th WordPress training course. We had a really great day and everyone in the room had a real passion for WordPress.  I’m really pleased with the positive and constructive feedback and following requests from the 10 attendees I’m busy preparing an Intermediate WordPress course. To book a…