Google reviews play an important role in making your business look like a trustworthy source of information, both in the eyes of Google and your consumers. Google My Business is a free tool that lets you manage how your business appears on Google Search and Maps. The only requirement for using it is that you […]
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Now that your image is properly named and sized, it’s time to add it to your post or page. If you haven’t already named and sized you image, please take the time to do so. It will save you a lot of time down the road when your site loads slowly, and you wonder why
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Optimizing your images is an important next step once you have found the ones you want to use on your page or post. But why does it matter? Naming your images is important to the search engines. Large images, especially if you have a lot of them, can slow your site down. A site that
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Recommended as one of the top three website hosting providers by WordPress itself, my current favorite hosting company is Siteground (and has been for awhile). I have used several different hosting companies and Siteground, by far, has the best customer service of all I’ve used. I can’t think of one issue that I’ve contacted them
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What is a Backup? A backup is a copy of one or more files created as an alternate in case the original data is lost or becomes unusable. It could be just your financial information, or it could be your entire computer; although in most instances, only the data needs to be saved since it’s
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We are such a visual society these days! Why use a lot of words when a picture and a few characters will accomplish the same thing? There a variety of ways to accomplish this, but this is the way I generally do it. PicMonkey – click on Edit Image Monthly – select an image (Image
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A client asked me to add a disclaimer to his blog. A disclaimer is a statement that basically holds you harmless from prosecution. Disclaimers can be placed in the footer or sidebar, if short, or on a page of its own; or even at the bottom of your blog posts or comments form. I chose
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Hack free, image free, and Javascript free. Works in all browsers. The easiest way to make columns equal height is to put a container around the columns which will force the container div to be the size of the longest column. Then float the columns. There’s a bit more to it, but that’s the basics. See http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-cross-browser-css-no-hacks for
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This is for CS and CS2, not sure about newer versions. When you want to reduce an image, go to the Image> Image Size menu. Click on Resample Image and choose Bicubic Sharper from the drop-down menu. This is the best setting for making sure that an image doesn’t blur. To set it as the
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I feel very inadequate when it comes to using Photoshop. It has such a steep learning curve and I don’t use it much. I took an online class but it was all about editing photos, and I wanted to learn how to use it for web design. Before taking the web design class, you need
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