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The Biggest Fear Of Working With A Website Hosting Company

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*THE BIGGEST FEAR OF WORKING WITH A WEBSITE HOSTING COMPANY* Will they STEAL my website? Clients come and go, that’s called turnover, and having owned a website hosting company for the past 10+ years we’ve seen more than a handful go. What surprises me most is that sometimes it’s like the business owner has a self-fulfilling prophecy that their website host is going to treat them badly, … [Read more...]

How to Optimize Your Website for User Experience and Conversions

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In today's digital age, having a website is essential for any business to succeed. However, simply having a website is not enough. Your website must be optimized for user experience and conversions to achieve maximum success. A user-friendly website that provides an exceptional user experience can lead to increased traffic, higher engagement, and more conversions. In this blog post, we will … [Read more...]

What A Perfectly Designed Website Could Do For Your Business

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In today's digital age, having a website for a business is essential. A website is an online representation of a business that allows it to showcase its products or services, communicate with customers, and generate leads and sales. However, not all websites are created equal, and a poorly designed website can actually harm a business. On the other hand, a perfectly designed website can have a … [Read more...]

Choosing the Right Platform for Your Website: Comparing WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, and More

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As a business owner, you know that having a website is essential in today's digital age. However, choosing the right platform for your website can be overwhelming. With so many website builders available, it can be challenging to decide which one is right for you. In this blog post, we'll compare some of the most popular website builders, including WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, and more. As a … [Read more...]

10 Essential Elements Every Business Website Should Have

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In today's digital age, having a business website is a necessity rather than a luxury. Your website is often the first point of contact for potential clients or customers, so it's important to make a great first impression. In this blog post, we'll discuss the 10 essential elements every business website should have to effectively showcase your brand and attract potential customers. Clear … [Read more...]

Should I Auto-Enable Updates To WordPress Plugins and Themes? [Answered]

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You're here because you want to know if you should click on that new feature within Wordpress to auto-enable your Wordpress plugins and themes to update. The answer is No. Don't do it.  This "feature" is a detriment to the evolution of Wordpress. Picture a perfect world where you just set your plugins and themes to update any time an update is available and nothing goes wrong. Seem too good to … [Read more...]

What Is Responsive Web Design? (And How To Fix It)

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If you're reading this you are looking to learn about responsive web design. You undoubtably already have a website, and perhaps the title of this blog caught your attention because you feel your website could be performing better for you. Or perhaps there is an issue you already have identified on your website, and you just want some reassurances when you speak to a website designer about the … [Read more...]

Which Website Builder Should I Use – For My Business?

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Today there are a variety of website builders a small business owner can choose from to create their very own website. A common question a business owner on a budget will ask is which website builder should I use? Or even, which website builder is best? Today I'm here to answer that question as best I can, in the most humble way I can.   First, Answer These Questions About Your … [Read more...]

Why A One Page Website Is Really All You Need (To Get Started)

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One of the mistakes I see all businesses make when hiring a website company is going all-in from the git-go. Especially for small businesses, I believe it is a mistake when you're building a new website to have more than 1 page max before adding on additional or new content. That may sound a little blunt, and maybe you completely disagree with me--but hear me out. The primary reason, and … [Read more...]

Should I Use GoDaddy’s Website Application Firewall On My Website?

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We are always striving to give our clients the best experience with their website. With the ever evolving world of website technology website security is more important now more than ever. We are adding the option of Website Application Firewall (WAF) for our websites to add a more secure experience for our clients and their visitors. We partner with GoDaddy to offer Website Security plans powered … [Read more...]

Why Did My Scheduled Blog Post in WordPress Not Publish?

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We have seen this as a common question from clients, "I scheduled a blog post on my Wordpress site to publish and it says it missed schedule, why did this happen?"  In Wordpress you can write a blog post and ask WordPress to publish the blog at a later time and date. WP Cron is how WordPress handles scheduling time-based tasks in WordPress. Several WordPress core features, such as checking for … [Read more...]

3 Reasons Less Is More When Developing Your Website

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Developing your website is hard whether you’re a business owner, agency owner or a developer.  To recap a previous blog about the 3 reasons less is more when designing your website: You can measure your progress, you avoid trapping the customer, and you give your customer what they want. Designing your website with the less is more mindset will almost certainly set you up for success, but how do … [Read more...]

How Does A Domain Connect To A Website?

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A friend of mine asked me this question as she was building herself a website.  She had already picked right domain name, purchased it from GoDaddy, and her website lived elsewhere on the Wix platform. To explain it to her I took this route: First let's think of both your domain and your website as separate entities.  Your domain was purchased through a website registrar provider.  In her … [Read more...]

How To Prevent Your WordPress Website From Crashing

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Your Wordpress website just crashed, how do you fix it?  Whether you are seeing a white screen, a critical error, or things just aren't loading correctly the probable cause is that a plugin or theme recently updated.  Sometimes these plugins or themes can update in the background without your manual intervention.  This just to say there are many many reasons your Wordpress website might have gone … [Read more...]

What Makes A Beautiful Website, That Works?

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Over the course of the last 8 years my company has been in business we’ve experimented with lots of taglines.  We changed it frequently, especially in our early years, and in large part we did this to assist us with selling our services.  As I’ve written about before, selling was the most difficult hurdle we had to overcome as we were just getting started in the website agency world.  One of the … [Read more...]