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We here at MadeGlobal have noticed that even though owning your own domain name is straight forward and inexpensive, there are still many people out there with an name.wordpress.com domain. We think it’s crazy! Discover 10 advantages to owning your own domain name with our help.

There are many advantages to owning your own domain name and website rather than hosting using wordpress.com. Here are just a few:

Reasons to get your own domain name

1. simplicity – your email address would become info@yourname.com or whatever
2. add credibility – it costs so little but shows you are a serious author
3. truly promote yourself – don’t spend time advertising wordpress!
4. portability - if you decide to move domain host, you don’t lose your domain name
5. easier to remember – people know your name, and so they’ll know where to look for your website
6. keep the name for years – if website technology changes, you’ll still have your domain name
7. easier for search engine optimisation you COULD spend time on wordpress SEO, but it’s better to promote yourself!
8. build your own contact/email list -market to your own list at your will and really make money
9. google adsense – make money from your OWN adverts
10. it’s easy to do!

Fancy discussing with us how your own domain name and website would make you unbeatable? Want to know how to position yourself and your business as a true brand?

Speak to us at MadeGlobal…

We have been advising clients on how to own their own domain name and website, and as you can see from our portfolio, we’ve designed and implemented many personal and business websites over the years. Show the world that you mean business with your domain. And don’t listen to other companies … it is both simple and inexpensive to own your own website and domain, if you know the right people to speak to!

Why not take a look through our website design portfolio to see if there is something that is similar to what you are looking for … here!

People have been asking how many pages are being viewed each month from Madeglobal’s main websites… the answer is a LOT LOT LOT!

Check out the new WordPress Media Uploader.. it’s cool!

We’ve been looking under the hood of WordPress 3.3 and we love it!

What is our favorite change? The wordpress media uploader. Let me explain…

In the past, for many of our clients, we have used the Nextgen gallery plugin. We love it so much because it is really easy to customise or theme the nextgen plugin to match the needs of our clients. We also love the admin user interface as it has been simple to explain to anyone using our themes. HOWEVER, it has always had one niggling downside which frustrated us … if you want to add images into a nextgen gallery you have to leave the post or page you are writing, and then go to the “add images” section to upload your images, before returning to the post and putting in the shortcode. That takes valuable time and can spoil the flow of your writing.

We’ve always recommended using the built in media uploaded above a post for putting in single pictures for a number of reasons, but never for a slideshow. And we absolutely hate the built in [ gallery ] shortcode from older wordpress versions.

But all that has changed with the wordpress 3.3 media uploader…

Now you can drag and drop images directly into the uploader. You can select multiple files to upload at the same time, and you can really easily manage the images from within the post. Without ever going out of the page. Excellent.

So, on our latest project (http://www.lift-n-shift.com) we have 100% used the built in media uploader. For every slideshow on the site. AND even better, we have overridden the gallery shortcode so that our custom slideshows show up within posts too. So now everything is finally within the wordpress editor, and easily explained to our clients.

How have you been finding the new wordpress media uploader?

We’ve been playing some more with WordPress 3.3 and it is great. On the whole we would have to say that the changes made since WordPress 3.2 are evolutionary rather than revolutionary – it just seems to have a subtly faster to use admin interface, and no doubt many changes and bug fixes will prevent “strange” things happening.

The initial change you’ll see after an upgrade is the “tours” functionality which brings up little popup windows to talk you through the changes. As experienced wordpress users, we’ve found these a little distracting, but for the general public these are undoubtedly useful as they highlight features you might not notice otherwise.

The best change we’ve seen is, in the words of WordPress “Flexible Permalinks”.

You have more freedom when choosing a post permalink structure. Skip the date information or add a category slug without a performance penalty.

Why is that useful? Because now it doesn’t matter which “pretty permalinks” are used. They’ll all work nicely. And from our experience, all your old permalinks will still work too. Phew!

From a user interface point of view, it is nice that WordPress have now included the latest jQuery, something we’ve been overriding in our themes for years, and also that the entire jQuery UI stack is now included. That means that we won’t be working with the strange subset of UI that was there before. Nice.

WordPress also mention that they have completed an “Editor API Overhaul”. We need to see more about what this really means but from the WordPress site:

The new editor API automatically pulls in all the JS and CSS goodness for the editor. It even supports multiple editors on the same page.

Multiple editors on the same page …. hmmm … that opens up a lot of possibility!