Beginners Guide

If you want to launch a website, you’re going to need a domain name. Makes sense, right? Domain names are how people find websites on the Internet, so it’s not like you can just skip the whole thing. But as simple as those words in your browser address bar look, they can be surprisingly difficult to come up with. Trust…. Continue Reading

One of the best things about WordPress is how easy it makes it for anyone to have a great looking and functional website without any coding knowledge. It’s perfectly possible to set up a website from scratch, getting it looking exactly how you want it to, and doing whatever you want it to, without writing a line of code. However…. Continue Reading

It’s no longer enough to rely on Google to provide your website visitors. Social media has become an incredibly powerful force for driving website traffic in recent years and has been overtaking search referrals for several years already. It’s important to make your content highly shareable if you want to take advantage of social media. The most important step to…. Continue Reading

Struggling with how to add 301 redirects to WordPress? These nifty redirects are an SEO friendly approach that let you re-route traffic to your site in a number of helpful ways. But they’re also confusing for many casual WordPress users. So, to help you out, I’m going to use this post to dig into 301 redirects as they apply to…. Continue Reading

A content delivery network, or CDN, is a network of worldwide servers that delivers cached web content to users based on their location. Because it takes less time to send data over a shorter geographical distance, using a CDN to host your website instead of a single server can speed up loading times for your website. Cloudflare CDN can also…. Continue Reading

One of the great things about WordPress is how easy and quick it is to setup. Many web hosts now offer management dashboards with one-click WordPress installation, often with the option of pre-installing some of the most popular plugins and themes. Even if you install WordPress manually, the process is pretty simple. However, if you’re frequently setting up new sites…. Continue Reading

When you develop a site on your local machine you don’t have to worry about the time and bandwidth used in uploading files, or hiding development sites from view until they’re ready to be published. Having a local version of your site locally also provides you with a staging environment where you can easily test any site changes out of…. Continue Reading

We know that eCommerce is ever on the rise and more and more sellers and stores are going online nowadays. Naturally, this has led to the growing popularity of eCommerce platforms. Two such platforms or solutions, WooCommerce and Shopify, have gained a very loyal following and user base. However, when it comes to comparing WooCommerce and Shopify, which one beats…. Continue Reading

WordPress is most certainly the world’s favorite content management system (CMS). It powers over 70 million websites, which makes a whooping 60% of all websites that run on a CMS. This figure translates to about 25% of all websites on the planet! Travel back in time twelve years, and this wasn’t the case. WordPress was a bare blogging platform that…. Continue Reading