Tips to Make Your Business and Website Better

  • This is why your WordPress site is failing

    This is why your WordPress site is failing

    And how to avoid a total website meltdown Imagine you’re an auto mechanic. Someone brings their car into your shop because the check engine light is on, and it’s running really hot. It’s also making knocking sounds. You pop open the hood and pull out the dipstick. Sure enough, the oil is extremely low. And…

  • Case Study: Dazzling Jewelry Shop Site Redesign

    Case Study: Dazzling Jewelry Shop Site Redesign

    I was approached by a gemologist and jewelry designer who already had a great WordPress site that had been running for years. It was a fairly simple yet nice-looking jewelry shop site, based on the Noir theme, which is optimized for WooCommerce. Here’s how the front page of her site looked at the time: She…

  • Stop! Before you use that WordPress theme…

    Stop! Before you use that WordPress theme…

    These days, there are a vast number of WordPress themes to choose from. I didn’t even try to count them. I also haven’t tried to count the stars in a long time. Suffice to say that your options are not limited. So, with the multitude of themes out there, how do you choose one for…

  • How to Get Better Help From WordPress Support Forums

    When you run into trouble with your WordPress site, it can be incredibly frustrating. Especially if you’re not a “techie” person and you just want things to be easy-peasy, which is probably why you chose WordPress in the first place. But like anything in life, sometimes things go wrong and we have to put on…

  • Trouble with Gutenberg?

    Trouble with Gutenberg?

    My wife is very frustrated. Mainly because our dog wants to play outside just as we’re sitting down to breakfast, which breaks our number one household commandment, Coffee First. She’s also frustrated at the “new WordPress.” Just at the dawning of the Gutenberg editor, she started to get back into her WP website. For her,…

  • Where do you put CSS code in a WordPress website?

    Where do you put CSS code in a WordPress website?

    Where the heck does this CSS code go? Ever been handed a snippet of CSS code and wondered, “Well, now what?” Knowing where to put CSS code in a WordPress website is not exactly intuitive, but in this post I’ll show you how to do it. At some point, you’ll get a chunk of javascript…