Underpants. They’re like masks. And they’re also like user accounts for your WordPress website. Here’s how to keep ’em (and I mean the user accounts here) clean and safe. Assign user roles You wouldn’t share your underpants or your mask, that would be plain revolting. Same applies to WordPress user accounts. If you have …
With apologies to William Shakespeare. When I was born, my father’s family insisted on giving me a family name. My mother put her foot down rather firmly and named me Anzelle instead. Waaaay better (thanks, Mom!). Anyway, for many years I considered my name terrifically unique. Well, until a couple of years ago. Occasionally, I …
What if your website got breached? What would that cost you? I can almost hear you think: “We’ve never been hacked, and it probably won’t happen to us.” Here’s an interesting statistic: about 30 000 websites get hacked A DAY. Let that sink in for a moment. According to WebARX, they’re mostly small business websites …
Carousel horses are so pretty. As someone who loves and appreciates design, I find them utterly appealing. But nothing beats a REAL, LIVE horse. All that muscle and power. As pretty as the carousel horse is, it keeps you going in circles, tethered to a fixed point. Right? So, lets talk about that very pretty …
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Online sales can be a bit of a wrestling match. How can you pitch yourself as the heavyweight to be taken seriously? This is the twelfth and last installment on simple ways to tweak your website to boost or improve your online sales. And hopefully this last piece of advice will help you score a …
I learnt a new phrase lately: ‘Stick the landing’. It’s from the world of gymnastics and means ‘to hold perfect form in the final jump or dismount’. Execute flawlessly from the beginning through the end. Follow through. All phases of the sales cycle require great attention to detail but to be successful, we must “stick …
(This topic is more about images on a LANDING PAGE. Images on a HOME PAGE have a slightly different job to perform, bear that in mind as you read.) When I started out in web design, I thought you absolutely HAD to have amazing images on your website for anyone to take you seriously online. …
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. …
It’s not that I’m bossy. I just have better ideas. Look, when it comes to websites, there really needs to be a point. Otherwise all you have is an online business card. There’s no fun in that, trust me. Owning a domain is a bit like owning property – if you develop something great, it’s …
Why you should keep your WordPress platform, plugins & themes updated regularly Is your site running on the latest version of WordPress? Is it safe to update your WordPress site? Let’s put it this way. If you don’t update your site to the latest version of WordPress, two things will happen eventually. Firstly, your site …