Tell Your Story Your Way Online
You can find all the tools you need to help your business in today’s digital world, whether you’re looking to build a website for your business, trying to grow your website or business or want to learn more about how a website can help your business.
Build.
You can find all the tools you need to build your website, whether you’re just looking for the perfect WordPress plugin or theme to add to your site or need someone to help you create it.
Get Your Business Online Quickly
A new website can take a lot of time and money — something you might not have a lot of if you’re trying to get your business online with a website. A website starter kit, however, takes care of both of those worries. Whether you’re looking for just a simple website with a contact form or an online store or something in between, this website starter kit can get your business online within two weeks.
JM Simple Small Business Local SEO
Local SEO is crucial for every small business. It’s how you can get found in “near me” searches that are more likely to result in conversions and sales. JM Simple Small Business Local SEO will add in the correct schema that Google can read to get your business to show in map and local searches — all without any code writing for you!
Semplice Monospazio
Semplice Monospazio is the perfect block theme for any tech-based blog. The simple design and monospace font make it a great theme to use for your blog about all things tech — from web development, software code and more. Plus, the theme takes full advantage of full site editing in WordPress, meaning you can customize all of the templates to match your personal style. You can do just about anything you want with this theme.
What type of plugins & themes are you looking for?
Grow.
Websites aren’t static things that you just set and then forget. Instead they need to be actively managed and maintained so that it helps your business. Here you’ll find tools that can help your established website (and business) grow.
Take Care of Your WordPress Website
WordPress is a great platform to build a website and manage your content. But managing the technical side can be a challenge — from running updates to checking your security to accessibility fixes and so much more. So use a WordPress Website Care plan that will not only host your website but also take the technical hassle away from you. All you need to do is worry about running your website and business.
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Learn.
When it comes to websites and marketing your business online, there is a lot to learn about — from WordPress to how to create a website to using Google website tools and so much more. And there a blog posts, videos and other resources here — completely free — for you to use to help your business grow online!
Creating a New Website for Your Business
There’s a lot that goes into creating a new website for your business. From figuring if you need a new website to figuring out just how to build it (do you go it alone or hire an agency or developer). It gets complicated pretty quickly.
So let’s go through all that you need to do to build the perfect site.
What’s Included
- Why Businesses Need to Have a Website
- Determining if your small business needs a new website
- Planning for your new small business website
- The Cost of a Website (and how to lower it)
- The different website options to build your new site
- Where to find a web agency or developer
Learning How to Use WordPress
WordPress currently powers over a third of the internet, according to W3Techs, and that number only continues to climb. So if you’re creating a new website, the chances you’re going to use WordPress are pretty high.
So let’s talk about WordPress, what it is and how you can use it to create and maintain a great website.
What’s Included
- WordPress.org vs. WordPress.com
- Best website hosting for WordPress in 2022
- Navigating the WordPress Plugin and Theme Directories
- Gutenberg and small business websites
- Properly Updating Your WordPress Website
- How to create a child theme for your WordPress website
Understanding Website Accessibility
Web accessibility is the process of making sure your website is able to be accessed by everyone no matter whether they use a mouse, keyboard, screen reader or some other technology to browse the web.
This journey will help you learn more about accessibility and what you can do to make sure everyone can use your website.
What’s Included
- Why Website Accessibility Matters
- Think about website accessibility from the start
- How alternative text, heading structure and color contrast help accessibility
- A look at some web accessibility guideline
- How to make sure your content is accessible
- Six accessibility fixes you can make to your website today
Read the Latest Blog Posts
Finding the best block patterns from the WordPress directory
WordPress
Block patterns are becoming more and more popular with the block editor in WordPress. So to help you get started, here are some of my favorite patterns you might want to use on your website.
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Introducting the Featured Content Block WordPress plugin
Featured Content Block
The Featured Content Block plugin is now available in the WordPress Plugin Directory. This plugin will allow a user to select specific post or other custom post type to show on a page, like the homepage. You can download it from the WordPress plugin directory or this website.
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Taking a look at what’s coming in WordPress 6.1
WordPress
WordPress 6.1 is just around the corner and it’s bringing a new default theme, a new block and a ton of improvements to the block and full site editor. So let’s take a dive into what you can expect with WordPress 6.1.
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Your best options for WordPress security plugins
Website Security, WordPress Plugins
Security is crucial for websites, and especially for WordPress websites. There are a lot of good options when it comes to securing your site too. So let’s dive into your best options for WordPress security plugins.
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What to Expect with WordPress 6.0
WordPress Wednesday
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Learn More About My Passion
Storytelling has always been a passion of mine. I’ve always loved seeing how people went about telling stories as well as the subjects their stories were always about. And then I loved the challenge of trying to do that myself.
My Previous Work
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church
Small Business Website Starter Kit, Web Development
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Kelly Patterson Graphic Design
Small Business, Small Business Website Starter Kit
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