[fusion_builder_container background_color="" background_image="" background_parallax="none" enable_mobile="no" parallax_speed="0.3" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" video_url="" video_aspect_ratio="16:9" video_webm="" video_mp4="" video_ogv="" video_preview_image="" overlay_color="" overlay_opacity="0.5" video_mute="yes" video_loop="yes" fade="no" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding_top="20" padding_bottom="20" padding_left="0" padding_right="0" hundred_percent="no" equal_height_columns="no" hide_on_mobile="no" menu_anchor="" class="" id=""][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"][fusion_text] What is wordpress? WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. It’s the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today. Wordpress has evolved from just a blogging system and allows you to create fully functional websites. WordPress is open source and free from commercial restrictions and limitations. Which is great as this gives you control over your website. Some fun facts about wordpress? Wordpress runs 4.5% of the entire internet which means around 15,886,000 websites use wordpress. Around 8% of the top 100 blogs use wordpress. The major websites that currently use wordpress are TED, CNN, Fortune.com, Time.com, Tech Crunch and Mashable. There are 40,000+ WordPress plugins and there are 10 000 + themes currently available.[/fusion_text][fusion_separator style_type="none" top_margin="30" bottom_margin="30" sep_color="" border_size="" icon="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_color="" width="" alignment="center" class="" id=""/][fusion_text] Why Choose wordpress? Wordpress is Free (open source software) That means its free software. You will have complete control over it. All you have to do it download and install. Best of all you can alter and change the source code as you want. Wordpress is search engine friendly The structure of the coding makes wordpress easy for google bots to crawl. You can also add SEO plugins to help your website become more SEO friendly to be ranked higher. Wordpress is easy to learn Wordpress is user-friendly. That's what's great about it. Anyone can learn how to add pages or posts. Wordpress is secure Wordpress keeps updating their software for security so its essential you keep wordpress up to date. There's also plugin's to help prevent hacks. Wordpress themes and plugins. With thousands of theme and plugins to choose from wordpress has become a powerful way to create websites. Wordpress is versatile and can be used for creating many features or functions for websites. Wordpress multimedia Wordpress makes using video, images and audio easy. Its a breeze to add any type of multimedia file to pages or posts. Wordpress is easy to manage Wordpress has a built in updater and also notifies you when plugins or themes need to be updated. This is a great way to prevent using old outdated versions of your themes and plugins. Wordpress comes with support Wordpress keeps growing and there's a large community helping in the development of this software. There's wordpress forums to help you find a solution to any problems you might have.[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

Welcome to 2014, the new age of technology. Having a website is an effective way to communicate to the world. It is the new way the general public search for information and try to find a service and product. Every business needs a website. Its a way for people to find you and contact you, see what product or services you sell. Its your connection to the public, its open 24/7 and can be seen all around the world. A business website opens up many opportunities to a company. It firstly shows you are serious business that is open to the new way to sell a product/service to the public. It also helps consumers gain an insight into your business. Your website should best represent the company’s vision and goals. This is the first impression a consumer gets when viewing your website. It also provides information. Information about your company, your brand, your product or service. Not only does your website provide information, it gets you listed on search engines like google and yahoo so you can be found by anyone looking for your product or service. You could also sell products from your website. E-commerce has grown substantially during the past 8 years and may companies are choosing this route to take their business. Not only can you buy services online, you can buy clothes and even groceries, all at the luxury of a click. Online sales have become a huge market. It has provided people with the opportunity to grow business from their home to locations. Get a website, there are so much advantages to creating an online presence.

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Q: Is it okay to use a template and themes as a designer

When I started wordpress I decided to dig into the code to learn how to create a theme. However after a year I stumpled upon the world of themes. All in different categories, more functions then I could create and basically depending on the theme, really good code. For me the idea initially using themes made me feel like I was cheating the client out of a original hand coded work from me but I realised quickly that clients don't care about where you get the code from. They want a cost effective way to showcase their product or service. To me creating a wordpress website from scratch wasn't the solution for my clients, it was a poor investment for their website. Instead the money could be spend on SEO or security plugins , social media or other area's of the website. I know most freelancers feel that themes are destroying the market and that its actually taking away from originality and from developers who pride themselves on building great customise themes. I do agree with you on that front, but the market has changed and looks like themes are here to stay and I'm quite happy about it. I can concentrate more on my clients goals for their website then on coding the theme itself. I can add extra functions, tweak the code and add different elements to make the website look original. For me meeting my clients goals is the most important thing, if I thought templates were not good for them I would never use it. Building my clients brand and elevating them to the next level is what I do and if I can save them money so it can be invested in other areas then I think its a fair trade. This topic is definitely open for discussion and everyone has their own opinion. Is there a difference between buying a theme or buying stock images, fonts and textures. I say do what feels right to you, and what you feel your client would benefit most from.

Q: Design Elite featured on SA OnlineCreatives

I was very excited to get a tweet from SA Online creatives to ask me if I wanted to be featured on their blog. What a great opportunity for my brand and to have the opportunity to talk about all the knowledge I have gained as a entrepreneur. A special thanks to Njabulo Mbutho for writing the article and giving me this great opportunity. You can read the interview here https://onlinecreatives.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/founder-of-webgraphic-design-company-design-elite-previsha-parbhoo/

Q: 3 Ways to create a minimal, clean, Simply layout.

Simple design is not a negative term. Actually anyone that can convey a message in the minimal way has got a good design. Design is a strong way to communicate. To be effective in this you would need to take into consideration usability, information and design and try to find the right balance between them. In the end a designer would be able to create a simple clean layout. White space To much white space makes the website look unfinished. To little makes it look untidy, overcrowded with information. Use white space to your full advantage. White space increases legibility and can also help draw the viewers eye to a specific section. By using white space you can control the flow of the layout thus helping create an awesome design. Details Just a few details can make a website. You never have to complicate a layout with to much information or images. Find small details to make your website stand out. Take for example a heading can be a stand out feature or even Just a snippet with a different font. Just think of something that will be unique to the website that will help enhance your design. Colours Now I am not saying go all out and create a multi-coloured website. The whole idea of using a bold colour is to make text or information stand out. But this colour can be included in the design creating a nice balance with white space and giving the website the aesthetics it needs to draw the reader in. Conclusion In the end its up to a designer or the website owner to decide on what sort of design they want. Everyone has different opinions as to what is appealing to them. We as a designer can only guide them but the final decision is the client. Just remember that a simple design can create a beautiful website.