How to Get Your WordPress Site Indexed By Google
Getting desirable ranking positions on Google is one of the most important things business owners want. But site owners may forget the details it takes to get there. Here are some tips on how to get your WordPress site indexed by Google. 1) Get A Good Web Host Web hosting companies are too numerous to … Continue reading “How to Get Your WordPress Site Indexed By Google”
How to Handle Client Input on Web Design
Retro is cool when its clothing, art, electronics and the like. Retro is not great when it applies to a website design. When designing a website, there’s more to it than sharp images and creative text. For a site to work successfully, you have to ask “What is this website for?” Answers could range from … Continue reading “How to Handle Client Input on Web Design”
WordPress Plugins We Love And Use
WordPress Plugins are ways to extend and add to the functionality that already exists in WordPress. You can see the list of plugins Automattic has developed on their profile on WordPress.org website here. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean and lightweight, to maximize flexibility and minimize code bloat. Plugins then offer custom functions and features … Continue reading “WordPress Plugins We Love And Use”
Create a Brand Story
Your brand is your story to your customer. It tells who you are and what benefits you bring to your customer. Your brand story also establishes a trust that the service you present will work as advertised. Well-crafted Branding builds trust between you and your customers. With so much entwined in this big thing called … Continue reading “Create a Brand Story”
Plugin Review: Pixabay Images
Pixabay Images plugin connects to Pixabay.com, a free image library with CC0 public domain pictures. If you don’t have a budget for iStock or other account, then Pixabay is a good solution. We’ve blogged about other free image resources before and while they are all great, this one is different. Pixabay offer this free WordPress plugin … Continue reading “Plugin Review: Pixabay Images”
SEO Trends 2016
With the new year finally here, and having already shared our thoughts about web design trends for 2016, here’s a list of what we can look for to dominate in SEO trends 2016. 1) Video over Text Video will over take other mediums in terms of return on investment (ROI) in 2016. With infographics, images and copy … Continue reading “SEO Trends 2016”
Plugin Review: Emergency Password Reset
Have you had your WordPress site compromised because a user had a poor password? Well after your conversation about how 12345 is not a secure password install and activate”Emergency Password Reset” and reset all the passwords and automatically email them out to your users. Emergency Password Reset When you click reset passwords, the plugin recreates … Continue reading “Plugin Review: Emergency Password Reset”
The Difference between UX Design and Web Design
In a industry where the lines to the customer are blurred about the differences in web. It’s hard to discern the difference between Web Design vs UX Design. Not to mention a web developer, UX designer it gets confusing with all the overlap. I recently had a conversation with someone about a website that we were … Continue reading “The Difference between UX Design and Web Design”
How Google Determines Relevance And Popularity
To a search engine, relevance is more than just finding a page with the words you were searching for. Search engines didn’t go much further than this in the beginning. Over the year now other factors influence relevance. Search engines typically assume that the more popular a site, page, or document, the more valuable the information it contains … Continue reading “How Google Determines Relevance And Popularity”
Plugin Review: WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce plugin that I know of in WordPress.org repository. As of this post it has over 1 million installations online using it. Currently WooCommerce has gone through a lot of changes in it’s development, mostly because of it’s acquisition by Automattic earlier in the year of WooCommerce. Here are the stats on … Continue reading “Plugin Review: WooCommerce”