Blog Customization & SEO
Blog customization includes customizing the look and feel of your blog, changing banner images, background color and adding widgets. Roller is of great help when you are looking to tweak these aspects of your blog. Roller facilitates link addition of links and categories to your blog, changing the blog title, description, themes of the blog and displaying the total number of posts on the home page of your blog. Intellogix will provide you with a blog optimization platform. We provide an SEO friendly blog that has spiders crawling all over your posts. The spiders will index the most essential aspects of the your web content and power your website to the top of search engine results.
Wordpress Blog Customization
WordPress as everyone knows is blogging software incorporated with several features. It is a very popular and user friendly management system that enhances blog customization fairly easily. WordPress has been widely accepted as the universal means of blog management.
Intellogix WordPress blog services
Our team has a wealth of experience in working on WordPress platform. Our impeccable team of web developers will take stock of all the aspects of blog customization and WordPress theme designing. We assemble a custom WordPress blog as per your need and convenience. We design exclusive WordPress theme and amalgamate the essence of the current site into WordPress. Your custom WordPress theme built by us also provides you with several other features like archive pages, custom header graphics, search engine friendly templates, Rss notification and more. Intellogix provides a WordPress theme the way you want it. With our knowledge and expertise in the field of WordPress blog customization, you definitely are at the right stop.
For everything else, you must customize, i.e. edit templates and deal with HTML, CSS and a specialized template language. For non-geeks, that can be pretty daunting. How can we improve the situation? We've discussed a couple of alternatives on the roller-dev mailing list and internally at Sun, but sometimes it helps to take a look at how the other guys do things. So I did some research today and in this blog entry, I'll briefly review how several popular blog systems enable blog customization.
Roller
If you want to customize your theme, you go to the theme page in the Roller UI and click the customize button. You now have a copy of the templates and resources that define your theme and you can edit them yourself within the Roller UI. Using the Velocity template language, you can access the Roller objects that make up your blog (e.g. blog entries, comments, bookmarks, pages, etc.) via Velocity expressions and you can call Roller specific Velocity macros to generate HTML and other markup based on those objects. You can add as many page templates as you want. Objects and macros are documented in the Template Author Guide (PDF).
Wordpress
Wordpress is not all that different from Roller in the blog customization department. When you create a blog you get one of two predefined themes. A theme is a set of PHP templates and resource files that generate the HTML and CSS files that make up your blog. Using the PHP template language, you can call a set of Wordpress specific Template Tags, which are PHP expressions, to insert information from your blog and to generate commonly used things like a calendar or a category drop-down choose.
One of the top reasons that bloggers want to customize their theme is to add a "widget" or two, e.g. a Flickr badge of most recent photos, an RSS listing of recent links from del.icio.us or a Google search bar. So Automattic, the company founded to support Wordpress, now offers a free Wordpress Widgets plugin. Once installed, you can use a drag-and-drop interface to add components to your blog's sidebar. I haven't installed the plugin myself, so here's a screenshot take from Automattic's site:
- Installing your blog at your domain so that it runs off of your site address (domain name) rather than from WordPress.com or Blogger.com.
- Customizing your blog theme with your company branding so that users don’t notice when they leave your site to visit your blog.
- Integrating your entire site as a WordPress or Blogger blog so you can make your own site updates with their built-in content management capabilities.
- Helping you set up your blog so all you have to do is manage it.
