Web Design Articles

An Inspiring Home

An Inspiring Home

  We're going to look at your online home in this post, rather than where you live in your offline world. If you're looking for interior design tips, I'm certainly not the person to ask. 🤣 A successful homepage for any small business needs to sing with a...

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When to Update Your Services Page

When to Update Your Services Page

  Your website is where you post most of your services along with so much more to help others get to know you. In this post, we’ll tackle what I share with clients about when to update their services page. First, let’s take it back to how businesses and their...

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What Plugins Do You Need?

What Plugins Do You Need?

  Once you’ve entered the wide world of WordPress, you’ll find that your site will need a specific set of plugins in order to keep going, to keep hackers out, to speed up your site….the list of tasks goes on and on. Over years of maintaining your site, you’ll...

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Peak SEO…Don’t Do It!

Peak SEO…Don’t Do It!

  Wondering how to up the SEO results for your site? I have a lot of small business owners and entrepreneurs asking about this and often. Why? It feels like what we’re supposed to do. We’re constantly hearing from marketers and marketing firms that SEO is what...

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SEO Tips: Blogging Is Key to SEO

SEO Tips: Blogging Is Key to SEO

  Blogging: if you're running your own business, you've likely heard that it is one of the keys to marketing your business. Did you know that it can also help your SEO? I break down how consistent blogging is key to marketing your business in this post.  ...

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Top Five Tips For Every Site

Top Five Tips For Every Site

  Every website is different but they have many elements in common. In this post, I'll share the top five site tips that I leave with every website client, whether they're just launching their site, we've completed a site revamp, or we've worked together for the...

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Yoast’s SEO for WordPress Sites

Yoast’s SEO for WordPress Sites

  Stuck on how to keep your site SEO-friendly? Feeling like SEO is a seriously bad three-letter word (or acronym)? Yoast's SEO plugin is an easy way for anyone to work on getting their site a bit more search engine friendly, especially for anyone who's not quite...

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Update Your Site Every Two or Three Years

Update Your Site Every Two or Three Years

  How often should you update your site? This often comes up in conversation after I've explained that I create websites...and is usually followed by an explanation about why that person's site hasn't been updated in a few years or more. Here's the thing with...

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What a Web Designer Sees On a Site

What a Web Designer Sees On a Site

  Ever wondered how a web designer sees sites? Today, I’ll take you behind the scenes so you get a feel for what I look at when I visit a site, and why there’s no need to cringe about getting feedback from a designer. When a designer looks at your website, it’s...

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Persistence: An Apple Tree and the Journey to Success

Persistence: An Apple Tree and the Journey to Success

You may have seen the photo that's been posted on social media of a fallen tree that continued to bloom. Did it seem similar to your journey as an entrepreneur? I noticed this tree on my run yesterday and it impressed me much more than the one that I've seen shared on...

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Mobile Responsive Sites

Mobile Responsive Sites

  Is your website mobile responsive? What does mobile responsive even mean? How can you test your site to see if it's mobile responsive?  We’ll jump in with some answers in this blog post.   "Mobile responsive" - defined and a test for your site So let’s...

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Wix, Squarespace, or WordPress?

Wix, Squarespace, or WordPress?

  So, you're starting a site and you feel torn between whether to choose Wix, Squarespace or WordPress? Although there are many other platforms available, this is the set of three options that I am asked about most often. I'll outline the pros and cons of each...

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