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WP Minute Tutorial Series – The WordPress Customizer

You can use the WordPress Customizer to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings, from your Custom Header Image to widgets and more. These settings depend upon the theme’s author however. You can access the Customizer from any page or post on your site. When logged in go to the action bar at … Continue reading “WP Minute Tutorial Series – The WordPress Customizer”

Facebook Ads: Selecting Placements, Formats, and Creative

When you see a video ad in your Facebook News Feed, you’re seeing an ad’s placement. As well as its format (video). Simply, placements are where your ads will appear and formats are how your ads will appear. The creative portion of the ads is not graphics. It is the type of media you’ll use … Continue reading “Facebook Ads: Selecting Placements, Formats, and Creative”

Podcast Ep09 – The Bean Boozled Challenge

In this episode Bill Reynolds and David Rockey have a conversation about power point presentations while taking the Bean Boozled Challenge. Listen in on Marketing and Presentation Methods and more with them hopefully not gagging. Big thanks to Ray, Kaylin and Olga for helping with this podcast! Key points: Test your power point ahead of … Continue reading “Podcast Ep09 – The Bean Boozled Challenge”

WP Minute Tutorial Series – Locked Out of WordPress

Have you gotten your password correct and have seen an error message? The message telling you that you have three attempts remaining. If you still haven’t successfully gotten your password or username correct then you are locked out. This can last anywhere up to twenty minutes. Now you are locked out of WordPress. Why does … Continue reading “WP Minute Tutorial Series – Locked Out of WordPress”

What Is Search Visibility In SEO?

Search visibility is a term I use to help our customers understand that it’s not about 1 keyword or term that you should focus on to be at the top of the SERP. It’s about several and how well your current website performs. Moz explains below what search visibility is and how it’s calculated: The … Continue reading “What Is Search Visibility In SEO?”

Podcast Ep08 – Ducktales and Bad Marketing

Just because you think your marketing is awesome, doesn’t always mean the product is. This results in Bad Marketing due to a poor product. In this episode we discuss how some products on the surface appear to be great. But if one would take a step back and look, it has flaws. No ones product is … Continue reading “Podcast Ep08 – Ducktales and Bad Marketing”

WP Minute Tutorial Series – WordPress Password Recovery

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of The WordPress Minute! Today we’re going to be talking about WordPress password recovery, so this should go pretty quick. Go ahead and get to your login screen on your WordPress website. There you’ll enter in your information, password, and your username. But what if you don’t remember? … Continue reading “WP Minute Tutorial Series – WordPress Password Recovery”

It’s just a website, except that it’s not

I’ve worked in the industry of web design and marketing for about 10 years now and I’m amazed at how often I still hear “it’s just a website.” Both within and from the outside of the world of design and marketing. What’s the video below to listen to the latest presentation from working at Baltimore … Continue reading “It’s just a website, except that it’s not”

WP Minute Tutorial Series – Author Bio Settings in WordPress

Hello everyone! Welcome to another installation of The WordPress Minute. Today we’re going to talk about author bio settings in WordPress. That’s the author box that appears at the bottom of a blog post. So here you can see we have a post (see video) and we’re going to scroll to the bottom and there … Continue reading “WP Minute Tutorial Series – Author Bio Settings in WordPress”

UX Design – Part 5 – White Space

White space well executed in projects is not something that gets enough attention. Cramming items together on a page limit what you want users to look at. The definition of white space is the area between design elements. It is also the space within individual design elements. Including the space between typography. In spite of … Continue reading “UX Design – Part 5 – White Space”