Website Security and Maintenance: What you need to know
Website security and maintenance is an ongoing task that is sometimes confusing and often overlooked. Here's what you need to know.
How to Optimize Photos for Your Mobile-Friendly Site
Knowing how to optimize photos for your mobile-friendly site has never been more important. Accessing the Internet with mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, has increased dramatically in recent years. So much so there is a growing Mobile First movement in website development to focus on designing for mobile devices before accommodating the [...]
5 SEO Basics for Your Mobile-Friendly Site
Whew! You’re exhausted. You’ve just finished a sprint to get your mobile-friendly site ready for Google’s algorithm change. But don’t stop now. Despite the mobile-friendly brouhaha, publishing and promoting quality content means remembering there’s much more to SEO than responsive design.
It’s mobile-friendly time! Is your responsive website ready?
Everyone needs a mobile-friendly responsive website The importance of having a mobile-friendly website is about to skyrocket. Later this month, Google will be making a change to their algorithm that will affect websites that are not responsively designed and “mobile-friendly." If you’re wondering whether your website is mobile-friendly, Google made a Mobile-Friendly Website Testing Tool [...]
What is the cost of a stunning new website?
I wrote about this last in 2010 when unemployment was near ten percent and competition for work was fierce and cutthroat. And while a lot has changed in the past five years, the steps to create a stunning website for your small business or nonprofit has not. The cost for a new website depends on [...]
How to Avoid Shady Downloads? Be Careful
Using unofficial themes, plugins, templates or extensions can be asking for trouble. The sharing and collaboration encouraged by popular open source software platforms like Joomla, Drupal and WordPress makes it easy to move from sharing into carelessness. Be careful If the piece of software you found for your website or blog isn't coming from the [...]
Listly, WordPress and the Plugin Dilemma
Our test of the Listly plugin on this blog represents every marketer’s dilemma of the need to weigh the benefits of opportunity and change against the potential drawbacks. Listly's appeal to inbound marketers For those who haven’t heard of it, Listly is a social tool that allows for collaborative list curation. One of the most [...]
