Choosing a WordPress theme is an important decision. With literally thousands of options, narrowing it down can be a challenge and a bit complicated. Before you embark on a search, consider these tips.
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Landing Pages for Mobile Optimization
With mobile becoming more and more important for getting online customers, mobile landing pages need more attention than ever. Getting customers to purchase online is tough. Smartphones are full of distractions. So how can you keep your visitors focused on your site long enough to make a purchase?
How to Interview a Website Designer or Developer
Finding the right Website Designer and Developer for your business requires knowing what questions to ask and the success factors you’ll use to judge the finished product. To help CEOs and marketing managers effectively interview web designers and developers, we’ve created a list of 7 questions to the help you find the right consultant when updating or completely redesigning a company’s website.
What to Put on Your 404 Page
Page Not Found An often forgotten part of website design is your 404 page. A well-run business always has a plan b. Just like having a contingency plan for if your office has a power cut, you should have a plan for if a user visits part of your website that doesn’t exist anymore. Customizing …
How to Choose The Right Domain Name
Choosing the right domain name for your business is tough. You don’t want to make the wrong decision and find yourself changing your domain name once you’ve picked one. Having a relevant, easy to remember, URL can be the difference between a successful website, and an unsuccessful one. So how do you pick a dominant domain name?
Installing SSL on Your Site
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is an internet standard security technology for creating an encrypted link between a web server and a web browser. Once created this link makes sure that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral. If you’re taking online transactions, you need to have SSL running on your site.
Why You Should Use Child Themes on Genesis
When we build a website at Spectrum Group Online we typically use the Genesis framework and then a child theme on top of that. We do this because we think it protects your site and also gives you more flexibility.
Find out what a wordpress framework is, what child themes are and why you should be running both to make maintaining your website as headache free as possible.
Why SMBs Should Worry About Data Security
Running a small business has never been easy. Choosing to what to spend your time and money on is always a trade off. One of the things that we often see companies ‘trading off’ is data security. Smaller businesses look at internet security with an attitude that says “I’m too small for anyone to want to hack”. But that is a dangerous risk to take with your business. You wouldn’t leave your office door unlocked at night, so don’t leave your data unlocked either.
How to Pause Your Website
Running a business from a website is a lot like having a 24hr convenience store. We are so used to the internet being there and available whenever we want it. And we assume a website is up and running. But at times that isn’t always possible. What happens if you need to pause your website? …
Visual Composer Themes & SEO
Wrapped in Short Code WordPress developers are divided in their opinions about using a visual composer theme. It looks like we struck a nerve with our Divi post. Therefore, it warrants a follow-up, examining some clarifications about nomenclature, a client’s ability to maintain their content, portability across themes, using theme frameworks, and its impact on …