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5 Crucial Tips for WordPress Newbies
You’ve heard all the talk about WordPress: you know it’s the tool to help you self-publish your web content and get you the search engine ranking results you’ve been looking for. You know that it’ll help you engage your customers and win more customers through online engagement. But you don’t know what you’re doing. Cheer…
How to Completely Disable a WordPress Plugin Update
Around here we build all of our sites to handle 99.99999% of all updates that come along, including updates to the WordPress core, themes and plugins. We do that by making sure we follow a strict programming structure that will comply with those updates, like using child themes and not modifying anything in plugin files. This is…
How to Post Your WordPress Blog
So you’re finally using WordPress – Awesome! WordPress is absolutely the best tool out there for self-publishing. Even if you’re new to the platform, you probably know that WordPress originated as a blog platform. Although it’s evolved to much more, its blogging capabilities are pretty stellar. In fact, there’s hardly anything that you can’t do…
Beware the Wrath of Google!
If you thought Google was your friend, you’re right – but only if you happen to have a mobile-friendly website. Or at least that’s how it’s going to be later this month. That’s right, Google has announced that, come April 21, those non-mobile friendly sites will be sent to the back of the line, so…
Mobile Optimization: 5 Tragic Mistakes
Looking to mobile-optimize your site? Good. We already told you about Google’s new plot to destroy the non-mobile-optimized website (okay, maybe it’s not as malicious as that), but just because you have a mobile version of your site doesn’t mean you’re out of the proverbial woods (or even off Google’s blacklist). In fact, your mobile…
Social Media Meetup – Link Roundup!
Today we had a great Social Media Meetup with a bunch of awesome attendees! Thanks to all who came. Here’s a little link roundup on the things we discussed: Hopefully, everyone got a thing or two from the Meetup! Let us know if you have any questions about the things we discussed. And thanks to…
10 Reasons Your Business Needs WordPress
Let’s be honest; you’re good at your business, but you might not be good at everything it takes to run that business. After all, you likely didn’t get into your business because you had a love of overhead and management. As we’ve worked with businesses of all sizes, one thing we’ve learned is that business…
April Fools Day – Best Ever Internet Pranks
Tricks aren’t just for kids when it comes to April Fools Day internet pranks. In fact, the first of April could be the perfect time to connect with your customers – and generate some great conversation online. Take a hint from some of the heavy hitters online; these are some of our favorite April Fools…
Top 4 Tips for Website Design
Web design isn’t just for looks. If you own a business, you already know how important it is to have an attractive, user-friendly website with which you can interact with your customers, provide product and service information and even make sales. Great tips for website design can help make all our lives a little easier. But…
A Call to Action on Call to Action Buttons
Let’s talk call to action. Let’s be honest; you don’t have a business website just because you got bored one day and thought you’d try your hand at web development. Businesses spend big bucks on websites because they’re an extremely efficient way to market, sell, and produce business leads. Not to mention that these days,…
How to Setup Access to Your Social Media for a Digital Agency
One of the things we deal with on a regular basis is getting access to Social Media accounts for businesses. There are nuances to each of the different social networks that make accomplishing such a task nearly impossible at times. The biggest goal we have when setting these things up is making sure the clients…
How to Make Your $1 Photos Awesome
In our previous posts we’ve shown you where to find affordable images and how to optimize images for the web. Now we know there are a lot of times when you want to take those awesomely optimized photos and add a bit of your own flavor to it, but let’s face it: who has time to…