When customers want to stand out, small brands can cash in. View original post at Entrepreneur…
27 Solutions to 14 Forgotten WordPress Page Speed Problems
About 50% of your visitors will abandon your website after 10 seconds or less. Yes, that’s the reality we’re faced with. The good news, however, is that there are many performance-boosting tips you can draw on to help you avoid becoming just another unfortunate statistic. At this point, I should let you know that since everyone’s website is different, it’s near …
Elizabeth Shilling Awarded the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship
The WordPress Foundation has announced that Elizabeth Shilling, one of three co-founders of the Women Who WP meetup group, is the second recipient of the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship was created in 2015 to remember Kim Parsell and provide an opportunity for a woman who may not have the financial means to attend the largest WordCamp in the US. …
Are Weak Font Choices Wreaking Havoc on Your WordPress Web Designs?
If there were such a thing as the Web Developer’s Dictionary, you’d probably find the word typography defined as “The bane of your existence.” It seems silly really. How could something as small and seemingly innocent as a font cause so much turmoil in web design? Font choices, like everything else in web design, have a significant impact on the …
PDF Image Previews Among the Improvements to Media in WordPress 4.7
Among the many enhancements in WordPress 4.7 are improvements to the media component. Previous to 4.7, users who uploaded files to the media library and changed the title could not search for them by file name. Four years since the ticket was created, users will be able to search for media by filename. PDFs are easier to preview as the …
5 Rules of Branding That Will Make You A Sought-After Superstar
Customers stick with companies they like and remember for the long haul. Ask yourself, “What does my brand represent?” View original post at Entrepreneur…
3 Lessons to Learn From the Marriott-Starwood Merger
Entrepreneurs should pay close attention to how these two hotel chains merge their brands and strategies. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Write Winning Case Studies That Will Score You More WordPress Work
So there’s this guy who runs a business. Let’s call him Joe. Joe runs a contest on 99Designs and has shiny PSDs for his soon-to-be-built WordPress site. But he needs a developer and somehow he lands on your portfolio and he likes what he sees. He browses through your website and notices a resource called “How I helped ABC turn …
4 Quality Survey Tools for Creating Fun and Effective WordPress Polls
Figuring out what website visitors really want can be tough. After all, it’s not like you can just grab their attention and ask them for their thoughts, right? Well, actually, you can. Surveys are a tool you can use to stop beating around the bush and just ask for the information you need. While there are many strategies you can …
5 Ways to Get to Know Your Brand Better (and Why You Should Do That)
If your brand were a fictional character, what personality traits would he or she display? View original post at Entrepreneur…