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Does your website or branding communicate your value proposition?
I am excited to share a post from Guest Blogger Jennifer Mulchandani of Arlington Strategy. Jennifer is a champion of small business and a community advocate. She is a veteran in advancing agendas, motivating stakeholders, and driving sales with high-impact strategic marketing and communications. Jennifer’s holistic approach to marketing includes…
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Creating mockup website images
I recently updated my website portfolio to add screenshots and links to new websites I have created for clients. I created a Photoshop template (click to download and use! yourself!) to make it easier to make a consistent and professional look and control the screenshot view. Since I had already started…
SEO – Writing good content
I am pleased to welcome guest blogger Grant Price III. Grant is a WordPress Tutor and Consultant in the Washington DC area. He has been training individuals and corporations about the web and WordPress since 2012. For WordPress tutoring and training, visit WPtutoring.com. Today Grant is sharing some tips about…
Original document from the public domain. This political cartoon, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, was used to encourage the American colonies to join the Albany Plan for Union. It was printed in the The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. Abbreviations: South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England.
Choosing a Membership Plugin and Setting Up Your Membership Site in WordPress
A membership website is one that has a set of specific users/members who have access to some or all of the website’s content when they are logged in. A membership site may be free for all or approved users/members; however, the more typical, commercial membership website requires payment to become…
It’s Not as Hard as You Might Think! Anyone Can Become a 9-to-5 Escape Artist
Today’s guest blogger is my cousin-in-law, the amazing Christy Hovey. Christy speaks, teaches, and writes on the topics of startups, productivity solutions, and social media marketing trends. She’s designed her work life around her family and her goals and enjoys the flexibility of being a digital nomad and lifestyle entrepreneur….
3 CSS Properties To Be Excited About
I am excited – not only about these awesome CSS properties (I love the calc property!) , but also to have a guest post from a woman in tech who really knows her stuff! My friend, Beth Soderberg is an independent web developer and digital communications consultant based in Washington, DC….
The Secret to Getting Ahead is Getting Started
Today’s guest blogger is Maura Fredericks, of Thrive with Maura Fredericks. Maura is a professional business coach and mentor who helps you determine HOW to make your business successful and make the time you spend working most effective and enjoyable. Maura specializes helping in business partnerships, business leaders and entrepreneurs….
Breadcrumbs did not help Hansel and Gretel but they can help your Website
Breadcrumbs are a secondary navigation format that reveals the user’s location in a website. The term actually comes from the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale …. you know the one with the scary, cannibalistic witch and yet another evil stepmother? In the story, Hansel and Gretel drop breadcrumbs while walking…
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Here’s why you absolutely need to back up your website
Today’s awesome guest blogger is Nat(alia Real), Website Superhero, a Web Designer/Developer + Strategist helping world-changing women entrepreneurs get more clients and make a bigger impact with a strategically designed website, while making the tech stuff fun and easy. She posts about all things websites + dogs + pop culture…
Need A Membership Site? Join The Club. How to Choose a Membership Plugin
There are a ton of blog posts and tutorials about creating a membership site and choosing the right WordPress plugin. Chris Lema has covered this territory in depth, with a recent review of 30 different membership plugins. Marcus Couch is soon launching Membership Coach to advise WordPress users on generating revenue…
Favorite Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers
Yesterday I wrote about my favorite Basic Google Chrome Extensions. There are a number of extensions specifically helpful for web development. Here are the ones I use every day: ColorZilla This is a super easy way to grab a color from your screen and learn the hex code. WordPress Admin…
Get these! 10 Best BASIC Google Chrome Extensions
I use Google Chrome as my default browser. I am a fan of the extensions they offer to increase productivity and simplify processes. There are extensions I use for WordPRess website development, which I will cover in a different post. This post focuses on my 10 favorite extensions for basic…
How to Use the Chrome Inspector to Edit Your Website CSS
My life as a web designer was changed once I figured out that I can use the Chrome Developer Tools Inspector to play with the CSS on my websites. There are many uses for these great tools, but here I am focusing on using it for CSS specifically. I did…
Taking and Selecting Great Photos for Your Website
Today’s post is from guest blogger Lawrence Cheng, of Lawrence Cheng Photography. Lawrence is a professional photographer based in Arlington, VA who specializes in portraits and corporate photography. You’re probably aware that images do increase traffic to your website or social media feed. How much more traffic? Jeff Bullas, social…
5 Reasons to Add Periscope To Your Social Media Presence
Today I am pleased to welcome my first Guest Blogger! Karen Bate, of KB Concepts P.R. is a social media, public relations and marketing professional who specializes in work for non-profits and “great ideas for good causes.” She is also the founder of Awesome Women Entrepreneurs, a networking organization which…
What’s the Beef? Taking a Bite Out of the Hamburger Debate
I have a keen interest in hamburgers. They are not my favorite food … I am talking about the small, 3-lined menu icon that has been the topic of debate in the web design community. The icon was designed by Norm Cox as part of the user interface for the…
10+ Favorite Free WordPress Plugins and Why You Should Use Them
I have used a lot of plugins over the years and I love listening to podcasts and reading blog posts to learn about new plugins and other’s favorites. Here are the Top 10+ Free Plugins I use on my WordPress websites: Yoast SEO: This plugin is one of the most…
How to resize and prepare images for use on your WordPress website
Images are a key to a blog or website. Bad quality images will make your site look unprofessional. Images that are too large will slow down the load time of your site. Images that the wrong dimensions and shape will mess up a page layout Once you have selected an…
5 Best Ways to Get Help with WordPress
I built my first WordPress website in 2011. At the time, I was not aware of the many avenues available for support and learning within the WordPress community and struggled to find answers and teach myself everything from css to html to plugins and ftp. Over the years I have…
Why I Love WordCamps
I attended my first WordCamp in Baltimore in 2014. I found out about WordCamp by accident. I had hired a developer in Florida to do some php work for a client of mine, and he mentioned in passing that he was presenting at WordCamp Tampa. I googled “WordCamp” and discovered…