I am often asked about how to create a WordPress website from scratch. As a trainer and a web designer this is a very common question and for anyone about to begin this journey I thought I would create a simple guide on what is involved along the way. So let’s break this process down […]
I recently conducted an SEO audit for a new client. The audit included 10 different websites using a combination of Squarespace and WordPress. Even though I am prodominantly a WordPress designer, SEO is the same regardless of the platform being used so I jumped in with both feet and was open to exploring a new
Table of Contents WordPress is by far the most popular content management system available on the Internet to date. As a website designer, I chose WordPress as my preferred design tool back in 2014 and have been using and teaching it ever since. With WordPress being so popular, it is important to understand best practices
Did you know there are two WordPress versions? Maybe you’ve seen references to WordPress.org and WordPress.com and wondered why there are two entirely separate websites? Maybe you didn’t even realise that there were options? Either way, it is important for any business owner or anyone who is about to have a website designed, to understand the
Quite often enquiries coming in through my website or via social media contain a common request. “I’d like to rank on page 1 of Google for the term XYZ.”. Being able to rank on page 1 of any search engine is no mean feat. It takes patience and usually many many hours to achieve along
A common question I see online is “what is the best way to learn WordPress?”. As someone who has over 16 years of web design experience and have been working with WordPress since early 2014, there is one simple answer… Hands-on practice! That probably sounds really obvious, but let me explain further why this is
As the popularity of WordPress continues to grow year after year, it is important to understand the ongoing needs of your website. A website is not a “set and forget” investment and needs to be maintained on an ongoing basis. Many of the participants who attend my WordPress courses are not running the most up
