History logs and ‘rollbacks’ are useful developments in the history of computing. While there’s something to be said for their contributions to decision paralysis, you’re also afforded a sandbox for making constant improvements to your site and portfolio. For example, you can iterate over and eradicate a number of common web design portfolio mistakes, such as poor social proof elements and outdated samples. Given the near-limitless scope for doing this, carrying out little tweaks here and there is an easy way to improve your odds of success. In this post, we’ll look at why you’d want to consider how your […]
6 Key Features to Include on Every Client Site You Create
As a developer, you probably create dozens of sites every year – maybe even more. Starting from scratch with each one can make the development process long and tedious. Plus, you run the risk of forgetting to include important functionality. By creating a standardized list of client site features, on the other hand, you can speed up your development pace and avoid leaving out key elements. You might even prevent mistakes that could ruin a site and waste all your hard work. In this post, we’ll discuss why it’s helpful to have a set of features you include every time […]
3 Benefits of Cloud-Based Web Hosting
When it comes to hosting, you have plenty of options to pick from. There are hundreds of web hosts you can use, and they often provide various types of plans. Some of the options are fairly self-explanatory, such as ‘shared’ plans or ‘dedicated’ servers, but that isn’t necessarily the case with cloud hosting. Cloud computing has been around for a while, but it was only during the back half of the last decade that it started to pick up steam within hosting. It’s a perfect match, however, because cloud computing enables you to increase or decrease the resources you have […]
How to Add Gated Content to Your WordPress Site
There’s a lot of content online that isn’t accessible to just anyone. In order to get to it, someone needs to give you permission, which often comes in the form of a membership. That’s called ‘gated’ content, and it can be a great way to drive signups on your website. For gated content to fulfill that purpose, however, you’ll need to make sure you’re offering something users really want. Moreover, gaining access to those pages shouldn’t be overly difficult, so you don’t discourage potential members. If you succeed in both aspects, gated content can be a boon to your site. […]
How to Convince Your Clients to Upgrade Their Hosting
Sometimes, part of working as a developer is advising clients on the more technical aspects of running their websites. This can get tricky when you have to convince clients to spend more money on aspects of their sites that they may not fully understand, such as hosting. However, by carefully explaining the benefits of investing in their websites, you can often help your clients see the value in decisions such as choosing a more expensive hosting plan. Plus, you’ll help them become more independent site owners, which results in less burden on you over the long term. In this post, […]
4 Reasons to Offer Maintenance Services to Your Clients
There are many challenges that come with working as a professional developer. Navigating a variable income, fielding support requests from current clients, and sourcing new work can all take up a lot of time and energy. Offering more services than you do now may just sound like piling extra work onto your plate. However, providing your clients with maintenance services can increase your income, while having a minimal impact on your overall workload. This post will explore some of the maintenance services you can offer to your clients. We’ll also talk about four reasons it can be smart to provide […]
How to Effectively Customize Your WooCommerce-Powered Website
By default, WooCommerce’s design probably won’t integrate with the rest of your site as much as you’d like. This means you may want to tweak its appearance to better suit your needs, or explore other ways of making it fit seamlessly alongside your other content. Fortunately, this isn’t difficult to do. With a little work (and the right tools), you’ll be able to switch out colors, fonts, and other prominent visual elements. Plus, there’s plenty you can do to enhance your e-commerce store’s foundations and layout. In this article, we’ll examine some of the best practices for customizing your WooCommerce […]
Should You Use WordPress to Build Your Web App?
Providing an amazing experience for mobile users is becoming more and more vital. Ideally, every WordPress website you build should be mobile-friendly from the start. However, you can also go a step further, and use WordPress to create web apps that provide a more native mobile experience. When you think about WordPress, web apps probably aren’t the first thing that comes to mind. However, that’s not something that has ever stopped the community before. In fact, WordPress can be surprisingly useful as a web app solution, and it provides you with multiple paths for getting the job done. In this […]
Understanding robots.txt: Why It Matters and How to Use It
Gaining visibility for your site by ranking well on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) is a goal worth pursuing. However, there are probably a few pages on your site that you would rather not direct traffic towards, such as your staging area or duplicate posts. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to do that on your WordPress site. Using a robots.txt file will steer search engines (and therefore visitors) away from any content you want to hide, and can even help to bolster your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts. In this post, we’ll help you understand what a robots.txt file is and how […]
How to Optimize JavaScript and CSS and Improve Website Performance
No one likes a slow website. In fact, many users would rather leave your site rather than wait more than two seconds for its pages to load. That’s why it’s crucial that your site is optimized for performance. Fortunately, there are many ways you can start tackling slow loading times and get your site in shape. Some are related to your content, others to your server, and still more to your site’s JavaScript and CSS code. In this article, we’ll explore why website performance optimization is so important. Then we’ll explain how to optimize JavaScript and CSS for your website. […]
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