Editor’s note: In this post, Jade Craven from BloggersToWatch.com compiles the best tips to enhance your blog’s About Page On nearly every website, the About Page is among the most visited pages. This one page can influence whether or not someone becomes a fan of your blog. It is easy to write a mediocre About… Continue reading
Start the year on the right foot with this new year’s website checklist
The beginning of the year is a great time to make plans and get ready for the year ahead. Your website deserves a tune-up, and we’ve put together a handy checklist for you to start off the year right. Continue reading
3 options for your own professional [email protected] email address
“What’s your email address?” That question may be even more important than, “What’s your website address?” Your email address is how potential customers, business partners or employers will communicate with you. What will they think if it’s [email protected] or [email protected]? No! You need a professional [email protected] email address. In this article, we’ll tell you the… Continue reading
Is WordPress the right choice for your website?
There are a million ways to create a website, and WordPress is just one of those ways. Yet many people just choose WordPress because that’s what everyone is using or because they don’t know about the other options. The problem is that WordPress may not always be the right tool for the job. Using the right tool… Continue reading
Test payments in WooCommerce with the PayPal Sandbox
You’ve created your WooCommerce store, uploaded all your products and are ready to accept payments via PayPal. But how can you know for certain if PayPal will work as expected with your store? Most people will make a small purchase with a friend’s PayPal account as a live test. But that costs real money and… Continue reading
Why you need the WordPress Jetpack plugin and how to activate it
How would you like some cool (and useful), premium features for your WordPress website for free? I’m talking about features like email subscriptions for new posts and comments, commenting with Twitter or Facebook logins, a mobile version of your site and automatically sharing new posts to your social networks. The Jetpack plugin will enable all these… Continue reading
3 Easy Options for Presenting Portfolios in WordPress
Showing off your work or press mentions on a WordPress website turns out to be a challenging task. The task is even more difficult if you want to show off more than just images. In this article, I present 3 easy options to display portfolios. And I even made an example site to demonstrate the 3 methods explained here. Continue reading
How WordPress impacted my life and business
Ten years ago in early 2003, the self-publishing revolution was taking off but the tools available were rudimentary and lacking. At the time, a freshman at the University of Houston named Matt Mullenweg was worried that the software he used for his blog was at a dead end and mulled the idea of branching it… Continue reading
