The long awaited, and I must say a little overdue WordPress 3.0 was released today. It has a bevy of new features – some in particular will cause massive headaches to larger CRM platforms providers.

New features in this release include all new APIs that allow us to implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus, post types, and taxonomies. We also get the merging of MU and WordPress, which for me has always been crazy to be separate. I think the custom post types is the most important new feature as we are developing some sites that rely on this new feature. See below for video.

We must also remember that contributions to make this open source software possible come from around 218 people from many different countries). These are the folks that make WordPress the amazing kit it is and in the words of WordPress’s Matt Mullenburg “whose collaboration and hard work enable us to build something greater than the sum of our parts.”

So you want a new website? Our services are not for everyone, but if you are looking for a site to promote your products, inform your customers then you cannot do better than get a blogging site. Ginga is a blogging consultancy where we pool the best contractors in the world to design and develop websites to suit your needs! Ginga manages the project from start to finish, so you can be sure that your project is delivered on time and to budget.

Control!
We set the layout and you control the content, from creating categories, links, pages and articles to uploading photos, files and images.

Google Analytics
All sites come with Google Analytics so that you can track your visitors each and everyday!

Wide range of additional features
WordPress (our chosen platform) has hundreds of plugins that can be added to the system to suit your needs. Be it image galleries, online shopping or even videos and podcasts!

Hosting & Support
We host all sites, so all you need to do is login and update. We also provide FREE business hours telephone and email support. Costs are AU$50.00 per month for hosting and support. We have 3 dedicated servers are housed with the worlds number one dedicated hosting company Rackspace

Design and Development Costs
As with any development costs do vary, but you should be able to have a website up and running with all of the features present on this site – with your own look and feel for less than $3,300 inc GST (GST is for Australian clients only). Further customisations are quoted on a case by case basis!

RSS Ready
All of our sites are RSS ready out of the box. This means your customers can subscribe to receive all of your updates without providing an email address.

What is RSS? Suppose you have 50 sites and blogs that you like to visit regularly. Going to visit each website and blog everyday could take you hours. With RSS, you can subscribe to a website or blog, and get fed all the new headlines from all of these 50 sites and blogs in one list, and see what’s going on in minutes instead of hours. How cool is that?

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The Ginga Website is proudly powered by the worlds most product content management system. Previously Ginga used an inferior CMS developed locally that did not offer a large community and upgrades were scarce – in fact in 5 years they never actually occurred. Ginga decided to abandon this approach and move to a more flexible environment. It took some time but we are happy, our clients are wrapped – it shows in the new developments which are 50% faster and are 100% standards compliant and the systems are updated at least 6 times annually.

A Little About WordPress (from WordPress.org)
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.

Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 5 web site without paying anyone a license fee.

About WordPress.org
On this site you can download and install a software script called WordPress. To do this 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. There is also a service called WordPress.com which lets you get started with a new and free WordPress-based blog in seconds, but varies in several ways and is less flexible than the WordPress you download and install yourself.

Ginga Design today released a group of websites for Decently Exposed. The website features 5 themes all styled around the one format but each with an individual look and feel.

WordPress was used as the core CMS engine and Ginga designed a set of plugins around the projects of each of the 5 products. The website provides a snapshot of projects and news for AutoSkin (vehicle branding), taylormadesigns (signage), Wall Scrawl (graphic memoboards) and PrintAsArt (custom print on a range of media).

The website is updated on a regular basis with new projects and news and media releases, all controlled by the client

One of the longest running and most popular blogs in Australia Business2.com.au have released a slick fast new ‘magazine style’ look and feel. The site uses WordPress and a number of simple plugins.

Business2 is Australia’s original and most popular real estate technology magazine. This site has been developed to help real estate agents better understand the Internet and its future implications upon their business.

The site has multiple Authors and suits the WordPress core functionality of blogging. Ginga created a magazine style layout with easy to use navigational elements.