Useful Tips, Info and Advice
How to set up your avatar
An “avatar” is an image that represents you online—a little picture that appears next to your name when you interact with websites. A Gravatar is a Globally Recognized Avatar. You upload it and create your profile just once, and then
Copyright – your Website and the use of Google Images
Copyright notice in the footer of your website There’s ongoing debate about what the year in the copyright section of a website’s footer is telling you. In my case, some of my clients ask that the copyright year is updated
How High-Quality Photographs Boost your Business
Promoting new products, especially via an eCommerce site, can be a challenge to any entrepreneur. Clients and consumers rely on getting an accurate idea of what a product will be like before deciding to purchase. If you have high-quality photographs
Must-have WordPress Plugins I Always Install
Whenever I create a website there are a few WordPress plugins that I always install before the site goes live. It’s taken many years of testing and trial and error to whittle my base integral plugins to these few, and
How and why hackers gain access to your website
Having your website hacked is one of the biggest nightmares for any website owner. Your site is shut down and traffic plummets. Finding and fixing the problem is hard work, however, not as hard as winning back your audience’s trust
How hackers are stopped from accessing your WordPress website
As the most popular web publishing platform on the internet (by a large margin), WordPress is a popular target for hackers and spammers. WordPress is known for being one of the most user-friendly website platforms available online, but out of
Your WooCommerce-powered store must be fast and secure
If your eCommerce website is sluggish or its pages take a long time to load, visitors will abandon it for your competitor’s, and you’ll miss out on sales. Hosting is the #1 most important thing to keep in mind when
Why you would not want to use automatically scrolling sliders on a website
Study after study and test after test has revealed that sliders, particularly scrolling sliders, are a ‘fail’ in the web design world. Only 1% of people actually click on a slider People simply ignore your slider, because it triggers banner
Reasons why you should own your own blog rather than posting to social media
At least once a year, various people declare that blogs are dead… usually killed by some platform that we label as “social media”. Some marketing consultants tell small businesses that they can do fine just having a Facebook page. Bad
DNS Propagation – what is it and why does it take so long?
What is DNS and how does it work? DNS stands for “Domain Name System”. Domain names are the human-readable website addresses we use every day. Behind the scenes, the Internet and other networks use numerical IP addresses (“Internet Protocol” addresses).
Domain names – what are they and how do they work?
What is a domain name? A domain name is a unique name that can be used to identify and access your website on the Internet. It is also used as your email address – the text to the right of
Making sense of Google Analytics Reports – Traffic Sources
Understanding Traffic Sources Direct This can mean: your visitor typed your website address directly into the browser your visitor clicked the link to your website in your email footer your visitor clicked a link inside an email or PDF your