What to Look For in a Web Developer

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It’s hard to find a good web developer. Part of that is because web development is a jungle of unlicensed practitioners with very different interests, price points, and skill levels—meaning it’s a lot tougher to know where to start than … Read More

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Why the Web Development Industry is a Jungle

Most people I talk to who need web development help are frustrated and unsure. Many have had painful experiences with previous developers, and almost all are suspicious about being taken advantage of. Getting web work done properly at the right … Read More

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Elegant Themes: An Overview and a Word of Caution

Today we’ll be continuing our discussion of WordPress themes. If you’re looking for the right theme for your site, be sure to take a look at the first three posts in this series: What WordPress Themes Are Choosing The Perfect … Read More

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Now’s the time to update WordPress

This edition is a bit more technical than most other ones (see bottom for brief technical notes), but we wanted to recommend that you do something pretty easy and really good for your business: Update WordPress to 3.7! Ordinarily, updating … Read More

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Content creation strategies

The last issue looked at why just about every website should have fresh content, often in the form of a blog. But actually getting content out the door isn’t easy. This time, we’ll look at how to get in the … Read More

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Three easy steps to on-site SEO with WordPress

Search engine optimization (SEO) is complex, difficult to understand, and invites a lot of superstition and folklore—as well as a fair amount of outright fraud. It’s also really important. As a result, it’s an endless topic. Fortunately, the basic principles … Read More

How to plan a successful web project

Too many web projects don’t meet their goals. The project could be the wrong solution for the right goal, the right solution for the wrong goal—or, perhaps worst of all, a shiny solution for no goal. The problem is that … Read More