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Is WordPress the Best Platform for your Website?

I get this question all the time and my answer is always – it depends.  And then I laugh.  A nervous laugh really because I know people expect more from me but the answer isn’t really that simple.  I used to think it was because I wanted specific things FOR…

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Images on the Web

The Best Practices for Images on the Web

Adding images strategically to your website can improve engagement, create emotional connections with your visitors, and increase page views.  If you want to maximize the benefit for your website, you’ll want to make sure you are using well-optimized images.   Choosing the Type of Image File Browsers support a variety of…

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Why WordPress Sucks

Why WordPress Sucks

There are more and more website builders out there every day. Some offer sweet deals to get you in the door…deals too sweet to pass up without at least thinking twice.  They claim to be better and easier than WordPress but are they? Some say WordPress sucks and they have…

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The client friendly editor for wordpress

Easy Content Editing on Your WordPress Website

Editing the basic content on your website often gets put off because small changes can seem to take forever when you have to back and forth between the back end and the front end of your website, making the change and checking it, etc.  It isn’t really difficult to do…

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Wordpress

Free Themes for WordPress

Well, that depends on how you define free.  I first should point out that what I’m about to share does NOT apply to all free themes.   I would be comfortable downloading a free theme from WordPress directly but that’s about it and here’s why. I sent out a quick tweet…

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Computer network

What the Heck is Caching & How Do I Deal with It’s (Negative) Impact

Most of the time we look at caching as a positive thing.  It speeds up the load time for our websites, which both our visitors and the search engines love. But then there is the dreaded issue of making changes to our website and either not seeing the changes right…

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