Developing an effective web presence for your business is complicated! There are so many things you need and have to consider.

You need a catchy domain. A domain is part of your web address or URL. This web address has to identify your business to the people who are looking for services. For instance, our company is Sapphire Solutions, Ltd. Our Domain is sapphiresolutionsltd.com and our URL is http://www.sapphiresolutionsltd.com

Next, your site has to have content for people to see and read. This content needs to be eye catching and up to date. Making this happen means you need a state of the art web site with a high-visibility and interactive web design. It is absolutely worthless to have a web site, if it can’t be found, so your web site also has to be optimized for all the major search engines. Search engines index the information on your site and provide results in a form of popularity contest, to the people who are searching for it.

WordPress can make all this a reality for you. WordPress is more than just blogging software, it is a Content Management System (CMS) as well. This means that WordPress, when used correctly, can provide an infinite number of possible options for your website. Most importantly, WordPress will allow you to create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media.

So, if WordPress can give you all this power, how do you get your information to the internet users?

One such option is to combine the abilities of WordPress with that of Facebook.

Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. The idea behind Facebook is giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.

Connected?

“CONNECTED” means opportunity for businesses. With over 200,000,000 active users, Facebook, is another way to put products and services in front of millions of people.

The collaboration of your WordPress site with Facebook, is made possible by using a WordPress Plug-in called WPBook. This simple little plug-in allows you to inject the information found in the “blog” part of your web site, to an application in Facebook, which any Facebook member can add.

That is a lot of marketing power. Who can you thank for that ability? Thank the folks at Open Parenthesis.

If you don’t know, or are unsure how to make all this work for your business, just use the “Contact Us” link in the menu, at the top of our web site. Sapphire Solutions can help!

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It has been a couple months since we began blogging on the Sapphire Solutions web site. I have talked about a variety of topics, but have not yet written about the software packages which make our blog work.

If you are familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS) or various blogging platforms, you may know about WordPress. If you have looked over the Sapphire Solutions web site, you may already know our site is a WordPress site.

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

WordPress is now, a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

WordPress can do just about anything. If you can imagine some feature or function you wish your site had, WordPress either already has it, a plug-in has been developed for it, or is something that you can create a plug-in to do. There really isn’t a limit to what you can do when your site is built around WordPress. To see all the ways to extend the power of WordPress, just spend a little time here.

To begin using WordPress you need a web host who meets the minimum requirements and a little time. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything. If companies like Ford and the New York Times use WordPress, it has to be powerful. Just look here to see all the various companies using WordPress. You’ll be amazed at all the companies you will recognize!

Because we use WordPress for our site, and because we care about Open Source projects/rights, we want to give WordPress it’s due! We love WordPress, and we think you will too!

Sapphire Solutions offers a web host service which fully meets the requirements to run WordPress. With our web hosting service, we do not limit what options you add to WordPress to extend it’s power. You may find other web hosts featuring WordPress, but they may restrict what you can and cannot add to WordPress to extend it. Sapphire Solutions can also create WordPress themes for you or your company, giving your site it’s own look and feel, while utilizing all that WordPress has to offer. If you need a special feature or some type of specific functionality, we can help you find it, or we can custom create a plug-in to do it for you.

If you want a web site, or more specifically, you want a WordPress web site, get in contact with us by using the “Contact Us” link in the menu of our web site. We can get you up and blogging in no time!

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Well, it’s finally here!

Sapphire Solutions, Ltd. has done a major update to the company web site.

Obviously, we gave our site a new look by changing several graphic elements, yet that isn’t the biggest change. When evaluating the older web site we found that it simply wasn’t cutting the mustard it in the CMS (Content Management System) department. We fealt the older site gave a lot of information, but that information wasn’t well organized. So, in looking for a CMS, we looked for the ability to put our own organization structure in place, while still making the same information available.

When considering all that our site could offer, we consulted some professionals whose opinions are respected by bamajr and others of the Sapphire Solutions staff. Most of these conversations took place in the OnForce forums (see here). The opinions we took into consideration and the research we did, made the selection easy.

WordPress seemed to stand out above everything else. So, we would like to take this time to thank the WordPress Developers and Support team for making such a great application available to the masses. We hope to utilize many of the available plugins to offer our visitors the best web experience possible when using our site.

The ability to add more content, faster is fantastic and the addition of blogging to the site will provide a means to get this information to our viewers in a well organized mannor. It will probably take a few weeks for our writers and contributers to develope a consistent pattern for reporting to the site. Please bare with us as our site expands.

We do however, have a few expectations laid out already, which we feel will benifit our readers. We want the information found on our site to be accurate, benificial and timely. The information shared here will be technology related, yet want this information to be understood by all readers. Because it is impossible to eliminate all the techno-babble from a technology forum, we encourage open communication about each topic and post.

Our company is a firm believer in “free press” and wish for this content on our site to convey such practices. However, we will edit, modify and/or delete any content that is not appropriate for minors of all ages (G-rated).

Please spend some time at our site. Feel free to link to our site and know that we encourage trackbacks and pingbacks.

Thanks,

sapphiresolutionsltd.com – Administrator

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