Almost a week ago as of this posting, Wix’s WordPress ads made their debut on YouTube. And, oof, they’re not good. The three ads have way more dislikes than likes, and commenters post how disappointed they are with the company, along with spilling the beans about how bad Wix is for website creators. While I […]
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This past week I’ve seen a few videos on YouTube about how the various food delivery platforms like DoorDash and UberEats kept the restaurant industry alive during the Covid Pandemic but not without taking a large cut. Thus, many restaurants, especially independent ones, are reassessing their relationship with these companies. What I would recommend to […]
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Do you need a blog on your website? This is a question many businesses have before and after they create/publish their website. For most companies they go ahead and add a blog, post a few articles, and then give up. At least this is what I see when I visit businesses websites from small, medium, […]
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One of the biggest reasons why many websites load slow is due to its images. While you should forgo using any images to increase your site’s speed it would look pretty bland. Yet, you can’t include highly-detailed pictures with huge file sizes on your site because it will slow it down (and hurt your SEO […]
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On March 10th, 2021, OVH, a major French data center, suffered a catastrophic fire which basically destroyed one of their buildings. The servers in that building were either destroyed by the fire or by the efforts of the fire department. The leadership team of OVH told their customer to execute their recovery plans. Some of […]
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Picture this: After debating which framework to use to build your website you settle on WordPress, specifically the self-hosted version. However, you don’t know which company to choose for WordPress Hosting. So you head over to WordPress’ website and you see they have a section all about hosting. From there, you discover they recommend the […]
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On my personal blog I spent the entire month of February covering black-owned businesses to celebrate Black History Month. After visiting dozens of small business websites I discovered too many of them do not employ SSL certificates for their entire website. Many only secured their sign-in pages and/or their cart/checkout page. Although this is fine, […]
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Images are extremely important to your website. Not only do they break up blocks of text but they also convey a message or emotion that words cannot. However, using images effectively on your website can be troublesome, especially if you don’t have an understanding about licensing or file types or sizes. Don’t fret! I’m here […]
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If you have a website that accepts and/or processes sensitive information, like credit cards, or updates databases, or both, you need a staging website. Why Do You Need A Staging Website? Because if you implement a code change or install a plugin update without testing it first on a live (production) website, you could cause […]
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About two weeks ago I created a business page on Facebook for my ecommerce store, Let’s All Meat. I did some initial setup but the site isn’t up and running just yet so I took a break. That includes my personal profile. Well, I decided to log into my account to do a few things […]
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