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Say Yes to the CMS: the pros and cons of WordPress

Running a website can be a complicated task. Content management systems (CMSs) can make that easier. Though there are a lot of CMSs out there now, one particular CMS stands out as the most popular: WordPress. WordPress is popular for a good reason, and, with popularity comes both huge...

Myth: I can’t customize WordPress

To go from a simple blog to a major business or news site, you’ll need to customize WordPress a bit (or a lot). New users sometimes experience WordPress’s initial limitations and panic. Don’t worry: with a little know-how, you can customize WordPress to do just about anything. Myth: I...

WordPress for Business: the Myths

WordPress is JUST for blogs In ancient times, people got a bit spooked by things they didn’t understand. Lightning. Fire. Puberty. Coleslaw. Just about everything had mythological (and not entirely factual) explanations. Today, we’ve replaced those gods with technology platforms like iOS and WordPress. But in the process, these...

Design to go: What can I do to make my site mobile-friendly?

Google’s newest major algorithm update, “Mobilegeddon” has come and gone; though it may not have made quite the splash that SEO experts claimed it would, we’re starting to see some changes in mobile SERPs as Google favours sites that have mobile-friendly design. It’s late 2015 and we see fewer...

Myth: WordPress is slow for big sites

STATUS: FALSE-ish (unless you have poor hosting or a sloppily built site) We at Kyosei love WordPress. It’s a rock solid piece of tech, and, with a good dev team, WordPress can easily be customized to suit nearly any conventional web project. Occasionally, however, we hear complaints that WordPress...