17 Key Features Every Website Needs
It can be hard to know where to start when designing a website. There are so many options and it can seem complicated. Well don’t fear, in this post I’m going to show you the key elements that every website needs to set itself up for success. What really annoys you on...
25 Tips to Make Your WordPress Website Faster
Search engines now take into account the loading speed of websites when they compile search results, giving fast loading sites a little boost in the rankings. Page load time also has a noticeable impact on conversion rates – in layman’s terms this is the...
Ethical Renewable Web Hosting
Apparently the internet weighs as much as a strawberry. Well to be precise, all the electrons that make up the data stored on the internet weigh as much as a strawberry: about 50 grams. That’s according to Vsauce (see his video at the bottom of this post). The data he...
How to Serve WebP Images in WordPress on LiteSpeed
If you’re reading this, chances are you already know how important it is for a website to load quickly. But if you didn’t, we wrote about the importance of having a fast website, with a free tip for checking how your website performs and getting tips for...
How to Automatically Backup and Restore a WordPress Website
Note: this post is about standalone versions of WordPress called wordpress.org, rather than wordpress.com, which is hosted by WordPress themselves. If there was a list of ten laws for running a website I’m convinced one of them would be “thou shalt regularly back up...
How to Tell If a Website Is WordPress.com or WordPress.org
As we described recently, there are two flavours of WordPress – the freemium version hosted by WordPress (.com) and the free self-hosted version (.org). But if you’re reading this post chances are you already know that. So with no further ado… 1. Your site is at... New Website Design Package for Small Businesses
We often get asked “how much does it cost to build a website”. It’s always a difficult question to answer straight off because well… how long is a piece of string? Price ranges can be very helpful as a rule of thumb, but many people starting out in business...
What’s the Difference Between wordpress.com and wordpress.org?
WordPress is pretty cool. Because it’s popular, free and open source it’s supported by a vibrant developer community and continues to grow and evolve. There’s a lot you can do with it, depending on how you have it set up. Here’s a lovely little... 