Development By Simon Sterne Today WordPress is the web’s favourite CMS (content management system), renowned for its low-entry level and vast array of themes and plugins. WordPress’s open-source nature allows for endless flexibility, catering to diverse needs and technical skills. Unfortunately, 10,950,000 websites are hacked yearly, and 4,708,500 of those belong to small businesses. WordPress’s… Continue reading Rock Solid WordPress Security: Keeping Your Business Safe
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11 Free Website Builders to Try in 2023
Before we go any further, let’s get the whole ‘all you need to make a website is a basic text editor and a browser’ thing out of the way before we start: Yes, it’s true, you can make a fully functioning, good-looking website with NotePad or TextEdit, but you also need a not inconsiderable level of knowledge and skill. And even… Continue reading 11 Free Website Builders to Try in 2023
How To Design A Website With Data Privacy In Mind
If you have any experience with web design, you should be aware that a site consists of numerous elements. Examples include navigation, branding, visual graphics, and content, among others. Naturally, when building a website, you have to take into consideration these elements. For example, to ensure proper branding, it’s crucial to include your company’s logo.… Continue reading How To Design A Website With Data Privacy In Mind
Cultivating Customer Confidence with UX
Businesses rely on designers to help them build the perfect relationship with visitors. After all, as much as companies may wish it wasn’t true, many consumers still judge a book by its cover. A website that fails to prioritize concepts like trust and transparency could instantly lose the confidence of its target audience. As a… Continue reading Cultivating Customer Confidence with UX
5 Biggest Challenges Web Design Agencies Face
With billions of internet users worldwide spending several hours online each day, the online presence of brands is now a necessary avenue for building, boosting, and maintaining positive value and attracting and interacting with customers. This has created increasing pressure for web design agencies when creating and managing websites. This pressure is multiplied by all… Continue reading 5 Biggest Challenges Web Design Agencies Face
Finding Your Way With Domain Mapping
It’s no secret that having a custom domain name is an essential piece of any company’s branding strategy. While there are a myriad of hosting plans available that offer domains like your company.webhost.com, making the shift from one of those to simply yourcompany.com is an important step. However, your domain branding strategy need not end… Continue reading Finding Your Way With Domain Mapping
Grab Free SSL Certificates From ZeroSSL
Like it or not, we’re slowly edging towards a two-tier web: those sites that are secure, and…everything else. There was a time on the web, when we didn’t have SSL certificates, and lots of people’s data got stolen. To address the problem, and regain users’ trust SSL certificates were introduced to secure sites handling sensitive… Continue reading Grab Free SSL Certificates From ZeroSSL
Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2020
Some of the changes we are seeing with where we work are starting to pop up in the type of new tools made for designers and developers. More tools with remote collaboration as a key feature are increasing in popularity. (You’ll find a few of those here.) Here’s what new for designers this month. Webdesign… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, July 2020
WordPress Secure Setup: Top Tips for Securing WP Admin
Welcome to the WordPress Secure Setup Guide. In this tutorial, I’ll show you a number of ways to secure the WordPress admin area. Before I show you these, consider whether the WordPress site has an SSL certificate. An SSL connection helps secure any website and is recommended, especially for use on WordPress sites. This video… Continue reading WordPress Secure Setup: Top Tips for Securing WP Admin
ZeroSSL Offers Free, Easy-To-Use SSL Certificates
Having a secure website is one of the best ways to establish consumer trust. When users see that padlock icon in their web browser’s address bar, they can breathe a bit easier when inputting personal and financial information. That’s why encrypting data transfer via an SSL certificate is so important. For users, it brings peace… Continue reading ZeroSSL Offers Free, Easy-To-Use SSL Certificates
Raygun RUM: Know Your Users’ Experience
It goes without saying that building web applications requires a lot of work. Not only do you have to design, debug, and deliver a fast server-side application, but the same amount of time and care must go into designing, debugging, and delivering a fast client-side application. This means that everyone involved throughout the development process… Continue reading Raygun RUM: Know Your Users’ Experience
5 Rules That Govern WordPress Site Design Testing
Think website design, and the ideas and options are endless. There are thousands of website design components to explore and experiment with. There is also a significant increase in the number of personal devices are purchased around the globe. It has become all the more important to think about how websites would look on different… Continue reading 5 Rules That Govern WordPress Site Design Testing
Secure Your Websites With GoGetSSL Certificates
Internet users these days expect to find the padlock symbol in their address bars whenever they visit a website. It assures them that the website is not only trustworthy but also capable of offering a secure and private browsing experience. The padlock symbol, however, is only shown for websites that use HTTPS and have a… Continue reading Secure Your Websites With GoGetSSL Certificates
What is Managed WordPress Hosting? A Look At WPMU DEV
WordPress, as you might already know, is the world’s most popular CMS (Content Management System) powering over 30% of all websites on the world wide web. Responding to its clearly high demand, many web hosting providers offer specialized managed WordPress hosting. Now, one of the major reasons behind WordPress’ massive popularity would be its usability… Continue reading What is Managed WordPress Hosting? A Look At WPMU DEV
Best Free WordPress Plugins for Optimizing Website Performance
Did you know that search engines like Google give preference to fast-loading websites in their rankings? Visitors are also less likely to abandon your site if it loads quickly. Everyone expects a website to load as quickly as possible—if it doesn’t, they will likely abandon it and visit the competitor instead. This means that a… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Plugins for Optimizing Website Performance
How to Test a Website Before Launching to the Public
Have you been toiling away on your website for the past several months? Before you launch that bad boy, click here to learn how to test a website first. Launching a new website can be exciting. It’s important that you don’t let your excitement overpower your rational thinking. No matter how excited you are in… Continue reading How to Test a Website Before Launching to the Public
How to Install, Configure and Secure Your Own Website Server From Scratch
If you’ve ever owned or run a website you’ll be familiar with one important part of it: quality hosting, good servers. And whilst there’s a huge number of hosting companies available, finding the best option can sometimes be tricky. This intermediate level tutorial will help you understand hosting with a VPS or dedicated server. Who is… Continue reading How to Install, Configure and Secure Your Own Website Server From Scratch
How to Migrate Your HTTP Website to HTTPS Without Affecting SEO
A robust security system is an aspect that further amplifies the performance of your website, regardless of the platform, it is being hosted upon. This security system ensures that all kind of sensitive data such as the usernames and passwords, credit card information exchanged via your website remain secure. This is important because the visitors… Continue reading How to Migrate Your HTTP Website to HTTPS Without Affecting SEO
Cloudinary Enhances Media Delivery with Multi-CDN Offering
Posted · Category: Information Cloudinary is well known for solving the challenges you face when managing images and videos. With its newest enhancement, the company is also eliminating the complexities of media delivery by enabling the use of multiple content delivery networks (CDNs) to ensure end users quickly and reliably receive content. Today, images account… Continue reading Cloudinary Enhances Media Delivery with Multi-CDN Offering
Using Let's Encrypt SSL With Your WordPress Project
What’s Let’s Encrypt? For years, purchasing, renewing, installing and managing SSL certificates overwhelmed me with expense and complexity. Now, Let’s Encrypt makes it fairly simple and free. Let’s Encrypt is an emerging, free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by a California public benefit corporation called the Internet Security Research Group—it also has nonprofit status. Its… Continue reading Using Let's Encrypt SSL With Your WordPress Project