Without a doubt, blogging is a good way to promote your business and credential yourself. However, blogging is also a way for someone to explore their own personal creativity. Blogging for personal reasons often has a different motivation to blogging for business reasons and the way you go about it can differ slightly. The biggest […]
Improve Website Email Deliverability [Video]
Email from your website not getting through to yourself or website visitors? Here’s how to find out why and some potential fixes. https://youtu.be/AGryZO3NA_c The code for the DMARC Record is: v=DMARC1;p=none;
Configure WordPress To Use SSL [Video]
Once you have a SSL certificate on your webserver, you need to configure WordPress to actually use it. Here’s how. https://youtu.be/FkIrEnPRcFc The code to add to .htaccess is: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] </IfModule>
Optimize Your Images For Best Results [Video]
Images can make or break a website. One thing that many forget to do is optimize their images to ensure they load quickly and don’t use too much diskspace or bandwidth when they load. This video shows you some things you can do. https://youtu.be/sYrtAyXSmXE
Finding A WordPress Media Library URL [Video]
Sometimes it’s necessary to find the direct link to a document or image uploaded to the WordPress media library. Normally so you can share the document / image directly or link to it from another site. https://youtu.be/7j37K5F5IhQ
Gamify Your Membership Site
In doing some work for a new website recently, I was asked about a way to award points for interacting with the site. My client had looked at the MyCred WordPress Plugin and, I have to say, it’s pretty damn good.
Website Design and Development Environments For WordPress
Website Design and Development is a lot more than just creating a website design and putting it out there. Not only do you have to scope the client requirement and manage expectations, you have to ensure that what you develop is Cross Browser compatible and meets W3C accessibility standards. In addition, there are issues like […]
Wordcamp Sydney 2012 – #wcsyd
Wordcamp Sydney 2012 has been and gone – and what a weekend it was! Firstly, kudos to Dee, Alison, Tracey and Pete for a fabulously run weekend. Having run events myself, I know just how much effort goes into getting it together and running smoothly and I’m in awe at the great job these guys […]
Podcast: Add a Pin It With Pinterest Button On WordPress
Pinterest is a great place to share images – which makes it perfect to share information about your business with those who are more visually inclined. We’re already seeing heaps of infographics and I’ve seen several “courses” about how to use Pinterest in your marketing strategy. You should absolutely be including Pinterest in your marketing […]