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, […]
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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 […]
Three Tips for Local Business Link Building
The world of search engine optimization has been shaken up a great deal in the last few years. Google particularly has been targeting spammy and aggressive link building in an attempt to thwart those who use manipulative practices to rank websites. This has led to many people declaring the death of SEO, or frankly being […]
Blue Marlin Partners Redesign
Blue Marlin Partners provides marketing and public relations services including media outreach, website development, content creation and social media strategy. Earlier this year we began a redesign of their website. Using an excellent design by Anne Washmera, I built a responsive Genesis child theme to power the new site. I like the clean design and […]
Christi’s Green Cleaning Redesign
Christi’s Green Cleaning has been providing healthy, eco-friendly house cleaning services to Santa Cruz and the surrounding area since 2007. I built her original WordPress site when she first started, but after seven years it was definitely in need of an upgrade and redesign. Christi wanted a clean, responsive design that maintained the personal feel […]
Gutenberg’s Apprentice
Alix Christie is a writer, journalist and old-school printer from California who currently lives in London and writes for the Economist. Alix recently completed her first work of fiction, Gutenberg’s Apprentice, due to be published in September, 2014. Alix needed a website to promote her book, educate people about printing and the invention of the first press, and […]