Tips for building a successful WordPress Portfolio Website
One of the most popular types of websites nowadays is the portfolio site, where the website owner displays samples of his or her work. These may be photographs, artwork, videos, slideshows, documents or just about anything that can be portrayed as an image. Even before the digital revolution, artists, photographers and other professionals commonly carried […]
How to check what WordPress theme a website is using
You may have various reasons for wanting to know what theme a WordPress site is using. This may not be obvious, unless the site is run by a beginner who uses one of the default WordPress themes or they have not removed the footer link that identifies the theme. More sophisticated sites can be trickier, […]
Where Can You Learn WordPress Online?
WordPress is the world’s most popular blogging application for many reasons. It’s free to use, extremely versatile and it’s designed to be user friendly. At the same time, it can be daunting when you’re first learning about it. As with anything else, it takes some time and practice before you get comfortable with it. You […]
How to build a website in 30 minutes
Do you want to build a website fast? There are a couple of viable ways to do this, and I’ll be describing them in this article. It used to be that creating a website took either technical abilities or money. You either had to do all the designing and programming yourself or hire someone to […]
Tips to improve your WordPress site loading speed
“You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests.” Google’s Webmaster Central Blog (April 2010) As […]
Pros and Cons of Custom vs Pre-made WordPress themes
One awesome benefit of building a WordPress website is the tons of readily available plugins and themes. This generally leads to a major decision of whether to engage a professional designer to create a custom theme or to choose a pre-made theme. Each website has their own requirements and needs but there are a few […]
Why you should not use Free WordPress Themes
When you are starting a new WordPress blog, one of the first choices you have to make is which theme to use. This is something you should do before you set up your blog. If you simply keep the default theme and change it later, it may affect the way the whole blog looks. There […]
5 Reasons You Should Not Use Free WordPress Themes
If you’re like most WordPress bloggers, you appreciate the fact that you have access to all the amazing free features of this blogging platform. It’s incredibly convenient to be able to install a WordPress site and start broadcasting your blog posts across the planet. Yet there are some compelling reasons why you should invest at […]
How to Plan and Design a Successful Website in 5 Easy Steps
Planning and designing a successful website can feel like a long and complicated process if you’ve never done it before. If you’re just beginning your journey as a website owner, it might seem like it’s going to be a long time before you have a fully functional website. If you know what you’re doing, however, […]
Tips to choose a Responsive WordPress theme
The next time you go looking for a WordPress theme, you may want to tell yourself to “think small“. Nope, am not suggesting that you should limit your themes choices. On the contrary, I’m encouraging you to expand your target audiences to include those who surf the Internet using devices other than a computer or […]