Google estimates there are over 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique web pages on the web and there are an estimated 7.3 million new ones added every day – but don't let these figures overwhelm you, you found me. My website was set up with only a few dollars and a bit of common sense. And, if … [Read more...]
How to win traffic and influence markets
How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the bestselling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie in 1937, it has sold 15 million copies. "[Dale Carnegie] changed my life" Warren Buffett, one of the world's wealthiest people and most generous philanthropist of all … [Read more...]
10 things I wish I had known about web designing 10 years ago
10 years ago I had a big problem. I was a print designer but I loved the web and desperately wanted to work with it. I wanted a software package that would let me mess around with drag-and-drop functionality and when I was ready I could click "GO" and miraculously produce perfect code. I was … [Read more...]
Recommended VPS hosts for WordPress
So you're using WordPress and you are getting a nice amount of traffic, say a few hundred visitors a day. Maybe you love running many of the great plugins that add extra functionality for your visitors. There's just one problem: your server is struggling with the load and your site isn't just slow, … [Read more...]
The best shared hosting for WordPress websites
If you are either just starting out as a blogger with a self-hosted WordPress blog or you are frustrated by your current host – here is a list of the best WordPress shared hosting companies as voted for by WordPress experts. Shared web hosting is a service where many websites reside on one web … [Read more...]
Essentials of great blog post design
Blogs are, in my opinion, the easiest and best way to get stuff on the web. With a blog you can publish constantly updated information about yourself, your company or your interests to the world. And what makes it even better is that this information is chronologically ordered and categorized for … [Read more...]
Why web designers should learn code
Back in the olden days just after Al Gore invented the internet, designers designed and programmers programmed. The web was full of slow good-looking sites that didn't do much and useful busy sites that, frankly, looked like a dog's dinner. But every year since then more and more fantastically … [Read more...]
I need a website designer and developer – what do I do?
Enter "web designer" in a search engine you will be confronted with thousands of results – how do you know which one to choose? What sort of website to you want to create? Web developers love jargon as they like to give your site a label. So is the site commercial (an e-commerce or affiliate … [Read more...]
My first free e-book on self-marketing completed
I haven't written as many posts as I would have liked on this blog in the last couple of months. The reason? I have been creating an e-book which will be used as an incentive for join my mailing list. It's ready now! Why did I do this? Many reasons ... I wanted to do something a bit different; to … [Read more...]
Sync up your Social Media and increase your Tweets
The huge advances of social media sites show a transformation from media monologues to dialogues which will define human communication of the early 21st century. An overwhelming majority of marketers say they are now using some form of social media to market their business. Social media is an almost … [Read more...]
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