One Purpose School is a public charter school in the Bayview area of San Francisco, the highest poverty neighborhood in the city. Their goal is to provide an innovative education and a path to college for their students in order to break the cycle of poverty.But their old website did not adequately reflect these noble aspirations, and they were in dire need of a redesign. I worked with another designer and built their new site in WordPress using the Genesis Framework.I like the full …
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How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website
Speed is one of the most important considerations when optimizing a WordPress website.In fact, studies suggest that 47% of consumers expect a website to load in two seconds or less. Forty percent will abandon a website that takes more than three seconds to load. If you’ve never tested the load time of your website, chances are very good that it fails these two tests.It's very easy to call yourself a WordPress developer, even though you may not know (or care about) the necessary steps …
My Web Hosting Recommendations
When it comes to running a website, especially a website that's used actively to generate leads for a business or organization, there's really nothing more important than quality hosting.While web hosting companies are as plentiful as grains of sand on a beach, finding one with good performance and support at a reasonable price is not easy. But since this is what I do and I'm a bit of a stickler (read: curmudgeon), I've spent a fair amount of time researching and experimenting. And, I'm not …