“I’m looking for a website with X, Y & Z. I also need A, B, C & D. Oh, and I’m looking to do it on the cheap” I see this all the time in proposal requests online. This request will not get any quality proposals, because by mentioning a low budget you are immediately [...]
Everyone wants their website to stand out from the rest. It’s important to have a unique website design that is visually compelling. Great graphic design can make a website look more professional and inspire trust in consumers. But is it possible to go too far when making your website look creative? There are certain user [...]
As website owners, we put some effort into setting up analytics so that we can find out where people are arriving from when they appear on our websites. We know how many came from Google and organic SEO, how many came from PPC, what keywords they searched for, and who came from social media, etc. [...]
Your Website Has One Job – Closing the Sales Funnel. Your website is your mansion, your piece of web real estate. People drop in, but do they just look around or do they buy? To sell to them, your mansion needs some great rooms. Rooms as unique as every client. Each room, or sales page, [...]
As a website owner, there can be an awful lot to keep track of! And small mistakes – even ones that most other people don’t notice, can have a bad impact on you and the overall impression that you make. You wouldn’t want your WordPress site to greet your readers without a clean appearance and [...]
Can a website be built in less than an hour? Sure. What about a commercial website? Hmmmmm… What about a commercial website that meets visitors needs, is easy for a business owner to edit, costs less than $20, and is completely customizable and future-proof? Errr… I decided to find out by doing it! In the [...]
In this post I’m going to take a look at the website RieWriter.com, which is the website of poet and novelist, Rie Sheridan Rose. I’m going to analyze some of the issues with the site and offer some simple actions that she can take to massively improve the effectiveness of her website without spending a [...]
The concept of gamification has been gaining popularity over the past 3 or 4 years, adding game mechanics like points, levels, competition, badges for achievements, these are all being added to non-game contexts, like special Foursquare badges – and discounts – being given by Starbucks for check-ins, points and badges for answering questions on StackOverflow [...]
I was recently asked what’s involved in integrating a custom design with WordPress, i.e. creating a custom WordPress theme and then deploying a site with that theme: How much is the cost of professional website design + development, using WordPress? I’m looking for an average, say 20 page, website, built with WordPress, with a good [...]
Ever need to show one of your draft blog posts to someone before publishing? If the recipient is not a registered user with at least Editor privileges on on your WordPress site, then they can’t view it. The Share a Draft WordPress plugin fixes that problem: you can share your draft blog post so that [...]