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Elements of a Website
Watch Video: Elements of a WebsiteWhat are the elements of a website? No, I’m not talking about anything related to the code. Let’s not worry about the HTML or CSS or PHP or JavaScript for right now. Instead, let’s discuss things like the header, footer, call to action buttons and the like. The things that truly make up a website…
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To use a WordPress Page Builder … or not
Watch Video: To use a WordPress Page Builder … or notIf you’re wanting to really customize your WordPress website, you’ve probably heard about page builders. They are great tools for being able to customize the look of your webpages without hiring a developer to touching any of the code yourself. But they do have their downsides and some are clearly better than the rest. So…
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How to Select the Perfect Domain Name
Watch Video: How to Select the Perfect Domain NameOne of the first actionable items you need to do when creating a website is to purchase a domain name. But why does the domain matter so much? Is the domain similar to web hosting? How do you select the perfect name that will help your business? And should you buy a .com name, a…
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The Best Themes From the WordPress Theme Directory
Watch Video: The Best Themes From the WordPress Theme DirectoryOne of the best parts about using WordPress is that you have a wide array of free themes you can use from the theme directory. In fact, there are currently over 8,000 themes you can download and install right now. So let’s take a look at some of my favorite themes that I think can…
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Website Trends for 2021
Watch Video: Website Trends for 2021It’s 2021 and of course everyone’s looking ahead to trends for the upcoming new year, from cars to houses to fashion. So let’s hop on that trend and discuss 10 website trends you can expect this year to help guide your website decisions. These will range from ecommerce to web design to content and more.
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How to Speed Up Your Website
Watch Video: How to Speed Up Your WebsiteHow fast does your website load? Most likely it’s not loading as quickly as you would like it to. But the good news is that there are relatively easy ways for you speed up your website to give your visitors a much better experience. So today let’s take a look at some of the things…
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Taking a Look at Google PageSpeed Insights
Watch Video: Taking a Look at Google PageSpeed InsightsDo you know how fast your website loads? Do you know what to fix if your website is taking a while to load? If you don’t know the answer to those questions, it’s time to start to using Google PageSpeed Insights today. It will give you a score for mobile and desktop loading times (because…
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Accessibility Testing Tools
Watch Video: Accessibility Testing ToolsYour website needs to be accessible. Everyone should be able to use it no matter what technology they use to browse the web. It’s both good morally and can help cover you on the legal side as well. But how do you know if your website is accessible? Are there any tools that can help…
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Top StudioPress Themes for Ecommerce
Watch Video: Top StudioPress Themes for EcommerceOne of the best parts of WordPress is the multitude of great, prebuilt themes that you can use and change for your website. And no place is better at doing that than StudioPress. So let’s go through some of the top StudioPress themes for ecommerce.
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Creating a Child Theme
Watch Video: Creating a Child ThemeYou’ve probably tried to customize your WordPress theme in some way. You really liked how it looked in the WordPress theme directory or other directory where you grabbed it. But you need to change some things. Some of the colors need to be changed in order to match your branding. Or maybe you want to…
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Staying within your website's design
Watch Video: Staying within your website's designIf there’s one thing that annoys me as a web developer, it’s seeing website owners, editors and authors who think they are web designers and create pages that, well, let’s just say they don’t look good. Don’t do that. Your website is designed the way it is for a reason. So use it as intended.…
