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A leading UK money making and money saving website run by a TV personality is currently recruiting for a part-time Web Developer to be based in central London, so I thought the Blogmistress readers may just be able to help as it does sound like a brilliant job…

This is a great opportunity for a focused and ambitious individual seeking an IT challenge.

Purpose of the Role/Key Responsibilities:

- To direct the creation and maintenance of the site

- To develop more interactive elements for the site

- To redevelop and redesign two sister sites

- Dealing with day to day IT Issues for employees

- Providing users with appropriate support and advice

They need someone with:

· Advanced technical skills including knowledge of WordPress, HTML and PHP. N.B. we are really looking for a WordPress genius – the whole site is based on it.

· Reliability – we need you on hand as soon as issues arise, and available to speak to our team members as and when they need you

· Ability to work both independently as well as with team members- good people skills are a must

· Experience in working with content management systems

- Willingness to work in our central London office.

Company benefits

· Flexible working location- if you get the job done, and done well, we can discuss you working from home on chosen days

· Working amongst TV and PR environment

· Fun, young dynamic team

· Great CV experience

Times and Pay

We are looking for someone who can commit to three days a week. This should increase to 5 days a week in a few months. We pay industry rates according to experience per day.

N.B. You MUST be able and willing to work in our office most of the time. This is NOT suitable for anyone outside of the greater London area.

Please send your CV to jasmine.birtles@moneymagpie.com

We will only reply to successful applicants. Sorry, but if you don’t hear from us it is because we do not have time to reply to everyone.

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I recently read a guest blog by Jackie Barrie, she wrote a lovely guest blog about email marketing and left a tip on the post that was very useful, read it here (sorry, can’t give away the punchline).

That lead me thinking along the avenue of what people share when they read and write on the web.

When I comment on a blog that doesn’t use Disqus as a commenting system (which allows me to add my comments also onto my facebook page and twitter updates) then I use Twit That. Twit That is just dragged and dropped into your browser toolbar and I share what I commenting on and what I am reading.

I did share a lot via social bookmarking, but lately that has fell by the wayside.

With the advent of Facebook liking, where you can ‘like’ a blog post anywhere on the web and it will update your facebook profile, I wondered if there would be anymore sharing on my blogs where it’s installed. Nope, apparently not.

People prefer what they feel comfortable with, tweeting, twit that – ing, social book marking. Yes, sharing is caring, but it has to work for the person that uses it and well as the person who owns the content.

And the ‘why‘ people share.

Funny gets shared a lot. Those cheezeburger lolcats I see zip around the web, along with jokes, petitions, fundraising requests and one or two poignant requests for help. I thought perhaps the most shared stuff has to have a request in it, but on further reflection the things that are most shared are the things that touch us. Either by our heartstrings and then our pursestrings, or through the desire to make someone smile and share something warm.

If that’s right I should be ending with a cat or burger-eating cat joke with a just giving page attached, but somehow I just haven’t got it in me!

Don’t construe that as an attempt for the poignant tug of the heartstrings share, it was acceptance that some posts like this one, will be ordinary, they won’t be shared and they won’t be liked to death over on Facebook. There’s nothing wrong with that, understand its nice to read something that’s easy on the heart, purse and soul every now and then.

In reading and writing content, not everything has to pack the killer punch. It does have to satisfy a need though.

Sarah

Something that some WordPress themes include on the blog page is a note of the number of comments each blog has received. And if there are no comments it will say that “No Comments” which you might prefer to change to something more inviting.

To do this you need to delve in the code just a little (or get your blogmistress to do it for you – it’s generally a quick job).

What happened to April? I’m sure there is at least another week of that month! Goodness, this year seems to be romping along faster than ever…

Time for you to put forward your worthy cause for a new website and/or blog using WordPress. We include all the hosting and a domain name, all that is needed, to get someone online with a shiny new website.

From last month we are working with Fiona on her Forget me Not project – fundraising for Leukaemia Research. Before that we sponsored Paul Weston on his determined and successful job hunt.

So who will we be supporting from this month? It’s your choice. Please add your suggestions below, then on May 12th you get to vote on those put forward.

Who and what are we looking to support? Charities, any non-profit organisations, communities, clubs, schools, any struggling business or project that would really benefit from such a boost. We do ask that you check that your suggestion does want a website, of course – just in case

So – who should the Blogmistress support next?

This fine weather has encouraged me to add the case study for Ecohouse Solar – a provider of solar heating and and electricity systems.

Ecohouse Solar

About a year ago, we were asked if WordPress would be able to work primarily as a website – and of course we said yes, having already found that not only is WordPress excellent as a blogging platform, but that is is a pretty useful CMS for websites too.

A pdf of the required design then arrived and the challenge was to get the WordPress design to match this as closely as possible! Now often we will approach things from the other way, but more of you are wanting to make use of your own design and have WordPress work with that. Thankfully there was already a theme that would allow us to incorporate the imagery and functionality that Ecohouse wanted. The Atahualpa theme was created to allow the WordPress user a wealth of design options and includes a support forum too.

And with some nice table plugins, and one that allow us to specify individual sidebar components to a page, the site is working well for Ecohouse.