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WordPress CMS Development Services by MacMillan Design

Are you looking for WordPress CMS Development services or looking for Plugin development company to get the right solutions?

Such questions are very common among IT professionals and they look for the right company that has been providing you with the right WordPress Plugin development services or WordPress CMS development services. Go through the details and you will get the right solutions.

From a bespoke and offshore Plugin development company, you will get a gamut of added services and solutions that will surely enhance your experience of getting the websites and plugins designed according to your requirement. Whether you are looking for WordPress Plugin development services, WordPress CMS development services or looking WordPress theme development company, you will have some better options to fulfill your requirement by reaching the right company that is convenient for you and bringing to you precise solutions. Go online and you will find a number of top names in this domain offering you such Plugin development services.

Among some of the top companies that are offering you WordPress CMS development services, you will find name of MacMillan Design comes on the top. A team of dedicated professionals has been working here, who listen to your requirement and provide you with the right solutions. Go through the details and make a contact as per your requirement.

So, what you are looking for, feel free to contact and get the right solutions.

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Why Everyone Love WordPress?

If you have an idea to run a business, then the World Wide Web is a platform to execute the plan and the website is your tool to turn ideas into reality. There are plenty of platforms for designing and developing a website, but when it comes to choosing a platform that is designed to meet the changing needs of the business and market world, then WordPress always emerges as one of the popular choices. Whether you are targeting a class or a mass, you need a website that has features to connect your business with its potential customers.

Easy to customize, light on pocket and its SEO friendly templates with interactive features make WordPress an obvious choice for the website development.

WordPress due to its SEO friendly nature: You don’t want your website to die slowly in the vast world of websites. It does not matter how much you spent on its designing and development part, but if the website is not SEO friendly it would be hard for the business owner to meet the market expectation.

Whether you are aiming to make writing as your career or wish to launch a range of products for the B2C market, having a well-planned and technically strong WordPress website will surely make things easier for you.

How you can make the most of this platform:

It is true that WordPress is free and anyone can develop the website using the platform, but to make your presence unique and recognizable you just don't need a website, but you need a professional and customized website that understand and present your business, idea or service in an impressive way to its current and potential market.

Work with a professional wordpress web development company and get customized WordPress templates to give your business a unique identity.

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Give Boost To Your Writing Career With An Author Website

Are you a budding writer or a seasoned writer who loves connecting with the readers and market in a conventional way? Well, having a website will surely help your writing career. Whether you are involved in commercial content writing, fiction writing or love penning your thought, adding a customizable Wordpress author website to your profile will help in managing your writing career.

Having a high-quality author website will help you in showcasing your skills and efficiency to a bigger platform and that too without spending huge on marketing and promotional. Develop your author profile through the author's website and what else can be a better platform than Wordpress for developing a great author website. Find a professional Wordpress development company near you and start digitizing your writing career.

How Wordpress would help in designing a website that speaks for you?

Get a website supported with call to action feature:  Get a website that promotes call to action. There could be any call to action that you want your visitors or reader to take, you can ask them to join the mailing list to stay updated about latest writing, buy a book so that they can make purchases in a hassle-free way, or the action could ask the users to follow your social media profile so that you can influence number of people and could connect with them in a significant way.

The website with a podcast/ blog: Make your website more informative by adding a blog section.  Even if you are not regular with blogging, sharing the latest news, events or topics under the blog section will make the website more useful and interesting for the viewers. And what else can be a better option than Wordpress for adding a blog section?

If you have decided to take your author career higher then Wordpress developers from MacMillan Design is there to help you. Get in touch with us and get high quality and affordable websites.

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Every Author Needs Author Website

No author can make it big if there is no reader. No matter how well researched the book is or how well written it is, if nobody reads it, it gets lost into oblivion. With so many books getting written every day, it is impossible for an enthusiastic reader to keep a tab of the books getting published. Thus, the readers can't be blamed either.

To get attention to a particular book, the easiest way would be to go online. These days, people search for everything online, they come to know about new things from the internet. Thus, having a great internet presence would make it easy for the writer to gain the attention he deserves.

For this particular case, we recommend a special type of website, popularly known as author websites. These websites are built exactly for this purpose. A decent author website will have different excerpts from the book to provoke enquiries, it will amplify the positive reviews from the critics and the readers, it will include an author biography to prove why the author is the best candidate to write this book.

The author website will also be linked well with different social media platforms to facilitate easy sharing which will increase awareness about the book. Finally, the author website will make it easy for the buyers by integrating the ecommerce elements. It will have a robust delivery tracking system, safe buying process and global or country-wide delivery. With these efforts, the book will sell well and the author will get due recognition.

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This Time, Build A Custom Website

There are a couple of billion website in the world and more than half of those websites are built using WordPress. From another angle, most of those websites are built using a framework or the other. Gone are the days when people coded in HTML to build websites. While this has made website creation a fairly easy job, websites need to conform many limits and boundaries, rules and customs, set up by different website building platforms, most notably WordPress. With over a billion websites already using this platform, there is a lot of repetition which makes many website look just like the next website.  

To counter this, custom website development has again picked up steam. While the coders don't open a notepad file and type HTML codes, they fairly do the same thing, but in a modern way. This has opened up newer horizons for website owners who don't want any limitation or repetition of ideas when it comes to building a new website. These websites, make no mistake, doesn't lack the beauty, the features, the functionalities of any WordPress website. In fact, as these are coded from the scratch, you can integrate features and designs which are otherwise unavailable in WordPress.

There are many agencies who are offering this service because the website owners are liking this option, compared to the same old WordPress websites. You can always ask them for their previous work, talk to their existing and past clients and compare their quotations to find the agency you require.

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Every Writer Needs Author Websites

If you have written a book, you have worked a lot on it and you expect your efforts to be recognised and applauded. However, given how many books are being written these days, carving your niche isn't that easy. There are a lot many authors, trying to grab the limelight and often they have written an equally good book. Thus, you, as a new author face a stiff competition. Then comes into the consideration a bigger question, who will notice you amongst or ignoring the established writers?

These questions can be somehow answered by presenting your book to the target audience in a systematic and professional manner. Firstly, you need a website and a professional and specific type of website for that. Those are being called author websites these days and these websites try to gain as many eyeballs as possible for the author.

Great author websites have a few unique feature which aren't generally seen in other websites. The author website is dedicated completely towards one book. In case the author has written multiple books, the focus is then on the author so all his works can be amplified. The website also brings forth the positive reviews or critical reviews the work has received so the visitor to the website can know what the world is thinking about the book. The website offers excerpts from the book for the visitors to become curious. Finally, the website offers the complete package of purchasing the book and shipping it as well.

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Get Your Own Plugins Developed For Your Website

Plug-ins are required by website to execute specific tasks. They are module which can be easily integrated into a website to do something specific. This saves the time and energy of the developer as they don't need to reinvent the wheel. Moreover, as they are modular in nature, they don't influence other parts of a website. In other words, a misfiring plugin doesn't take the whole website down. Developers can use the same plugin for different websites as well.

As plugins are modular, they can be integrated when needed, without completely coding the website afresh. For example, if a blog decides to accept payments for the contents it provides, it can simply install a payment processing plugin into the website and they are done. These plugins are easily available and some of those are even free. There are paid plugins as well which are more secure, without any virus or malware and are maintained well, updated often.

If you need a specific plugin which you can't find on the market, you can always hire a plugin development company who will gladly do the job for you. These companies are generally the custom website development companies and they offer stable, well tested (generally using a sandbox) and fast plugin for your specific purpose. The advantage here is, you can mention exactly what you want to automate. They will understand your requirements and deliver accordingly. They will also install the plugin into your website, ensure its proper functioning and offer maintenance service for a considerable time to come.  

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Advantages Of Woocommerce Plugins

WordPress is, obviously, the most favoured website development platform but when it comes to ecommerce website building the champion would surely be woocommerce. While there are dozens of advantages of using woocommerce for ecommerce websites, today we will explore one particular advantage in details.

Any woocommerce consultant knows that comes with hundreds of plugins so basically for every need there is a pre-built solution available. This makes the life easier for both developers and users.

Payment gateway: ecommerce websites must offer online payment method on their websites. Woocommerce offers pre-built payment gateway as plugins. There are as many as 17 different payment options which include Paypal, Stripss, Amazon payments, Authorize and many more.

Gift Wrapping: woocommerce allows you to offer gift wrapping facility using a plugin. You can mention extra charges for that service if you wish so.

Digital and Print Invoice: Woocommerce plugin allows you to send an automated digital invoice to the registered email id of the user as well as print two copies of the invoice, one to be sent along with the package while one to be kept with the seller.

FAQ: Woocommerce plugin also offers you a FAQ section on the where you can answer all the common and anticipated questions about the product. Moreover, it allows you a space for customer questions and answers as well.

Product CSV Import: woocommerce makes one of the toughest and most cumbersome job easy by allowing one click product details download to spreadsheet or a CSV.

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Custom Website Development

Create a website which is uniquely yours. At Macmillan Design, our custom website development service offers custom theme and design, custom features, custom layout and, of course, custom management. Whether you want to build a personal blog or an ecommerce website, we have the perfect solution for that.

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Custom WordPress Theme: What and Why

One reason why WordPress is popular is the availability of themes. There is a treasure out there for every type of websites, from news aggregation service to a food blogger's personal website.

As no two businesses are same, and no two businesses have the same target market, location, budget, or vision, pre-built themes come down to personal choices. Thus, choosing between a pre-built theme and a custom made theme often varies from person to person.

One of the disadvantages of buying pre-built themes is you don't know if you can really trust the seller. Do they follow the coding standards while building it? Will they provide round the clock support? Is the theme totally bug-free? Virus-free?

If these questions bother you, then you need a custom WordPress theme design service. However, why would you go for a slightly expensive service like this when reasonably priced themes are available on the market.

Custom WordPress theme allows a more personalised website building approach. Not only your website will have a unique design which can create your unique identity on the market but you will also have full control on everything regarding the theme. It will also fit your website to the minutest details and you know where to knock if your theme misbehaves. Custom WordPress theme means custom functionalities and, custom look and feel. As you have coded the whole theme, you can easily add or remove or edit any feature or look of the theme as well.

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Writing a Book? You Need An Author Website

Authoring a great book takes a lot of dedication, knowledge and inspiration. However, we are living in the age of information boom. Thus, in this overwhelming inflow of information, we often can't spot a piece of writing which is really exceptional. Don't you often hear that a really talented writer or poet went unnoticed? Truly, who can unearth a young, upcoming or talented newcomer in this era of information overflow! Thus, as important it is to create exceptional content, creating a buzz about it is equally important. And here, author sites can be really helpful for young writers who are trying to find foothold in the literary arena.

Author websites are not something very different technically. However, it is the presentation which matters here because the whole website is, after all, regarding a book and its author. The site will contain relevant parts of the book, relevant and positive praises and criticisms, author bio and many more to attract the potential readers into buying the book. The author site might also sell the book directly and thus, include a buying mechanism as well.

Great author websites target one more thing, they make sure that the site comes at the top of Google SERP so that when an inquisitive reader is searching about the book, he sees the author site first. This is beneficial for him as well as author site will be one place where he can find all the information regarding the author and his works together.  

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Custom Plug-Ins And Themes for WordPress: Why We Need Those

WordPress is the most popular web development platform with nearly 41% of world’s websites are made using WordPress. There are millions of plug-ins, impossible number of extensions and themes are  galore as well. Many of those are free but still there is one issue. There might still be one need unfulfilled, there might still be a design which you would want to create.

These are opportunities when you need to hire a custom WordPress theme design services. They will understand what your business is, how does your logo look, what’s the colour combination that your logo or physical business uses and then will also ask about if you have a design ready in your mind, if you have drawn a wireframe for your website and so on. Then, staying as true to your ideas as possible, they will create a theme to be applied on your website. What's the point of all these when hundreds of thousands of themes are available for free. The greatest advantage is exclusivity, this theme is exclusively yours. Secondly, as hand-coded, its easy to remove the bugs of the design if there exists any, and thirdly, it is easy to edit if you don't like it, compared to purchased themes where some features can't be changed at all.

The same reasons should influence you to choose a plugin development company as well. While there is no dearth of plug-ins and extensions, you might still be searching for one that perfectly matches your need. Hiring a plug-in development company can solve this problem easily.

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Choose Your WP Development Company Wisely

WordPress CMS development is best handled by people who do it professionally and thus, while there are many tutorials available for this on the internet, it is advisable that you leave it to the professionals. You can find thousands of agencies offering WordPress development but you need to be careful with your choice. Let's list a couple of things which you must check before finalising a deal.

Experience: It is important that you select an experienced company because experience can't be replaced with nothing, not even talent. This has to be earned over time and in this case, by delivering solutions to different needs. If they have created websites for different clients successfully, it has a good chance that they will do the same for you as well. Experience has also taught them how to handle different aspects of web development and that comes very handy when developing a new website.

Right Technology: WordPress is a multi-purpose web development platform. It can host your ecommerce store and your personal blog, both. However, it takes more than bare WordPress to develop special websites. Thus, understanding your exact need, the company should suggest you the best technology for your purpose. If they are trying to set up an ecommerce store and not talking about woocommerce or WP-commerce, then they probably don't know what they are talking about.  

Versatility: You might find a WordPress web development company which has worked a lot but on similar projects only. This means they are one-dimensional and thus, shouldn't be trusted with a different project. Find a portfolio which has a lot of examples of what you are willing to build.