They say the devil is in the details, but that is not true when it comes to user experience. A good microinteraction should facilitate or embellish an otherwise tedious task in a very subtle way—a bad microinteraction can ruin your experience with a website or product. Even though they’re “micro,” it doesn’t mean that microinteractions […] View original post at …
.blog Passes 100,000 Registrations, 66.5% of Purchased Domains are in Use
The .blog domain extension, managed by Automattic subsidiary Knock Knock WHOIS There (KKWT), opened registration to the public in November 2016 and has just passed the 100,000 registration milestone. The extension is averaging 300 new .blog domains registered per day and is quickly gaining popularity among new generic TLDs. According to the most recent stats available at nTLDStats, .blog registrations …
6 Exceptional Examples of Brands Showing Their Customer Appreciation
Even a small investment here can result in a tremendous increase in brand visibility and loyalty. So, what are you waiting for? View original post at Entrepreneur…
6 Plugins for Accepting Bitcoin on Your WordPress Site
Are you planning to accept payments on your WordPress site? Then you’ve probably already considered the usual eCommerce payment gateway suspects. With 79% of Americans shopping online, it makes sense to turn to the most popular—and trusted—forms of payment to support your site’s conversion process. But what about cryptocurrency? Currently, only about 1.5% of Americans […] View original post at …
WP Checkup Now Features Accessibility Checks & Downloadable Reports
Since launching WP Checkup six months ago, we’ve run tens of thousands of scans and, thanks to your awesome feedback, added new improvements to make our free website diagnostic tool for WordPress even better. If you haven’t used WP Checkup yet, it’s an app that helps you analyze your website and find ways to optimize it, […] View original post at …
Watch WordCamp Varna Wapuus Get Designed in Real Time
The very first WordCamp Varna will be held September 2-3 at the University of Economics. Varna is a beautiful city in Bulgaria on the Black Sea and a popular spot for summer holidays. It is the first Bulgarian WordCamp to be held outside of Sofia. Tickets are on sale for EUR 10 (BGN 20) and include all the sessions, lunch, …
How to Add a List of Sites in a Multisite Network to Each Subsite
If you’re using a WordPress Multisite network to host a number of related sites, it can be useful to include links to all of the sites in each of your sites. This will help visitors who arrive at the wrong site in your group and also encourage people browsing any one of the sites in […] View original post at …
Why This Entrepreneur Scaled Back His No. 1 Product
When Dogfish Head created a hit beer, it did what seemed crazy at the time: It turned down sales. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How to Use Internal Search to Track Users and Improve Site Content
When you think about all the elements on your site that contribute to a content-first strategy, does internal site search spring to mind? Probably not. After all, search bars are there to improve your visitors’ experience as they try to find what they need while navigating around your site. How could it have any effect […] View original post at …
WordPress Multisite: Subdomains or Subdirectories?
When you activate Multisite on your WordPress installation, there are a number of things you need to consider and decide, such as whether you’ll let your users create their own sites, what themes and plugins you’ll make available and your registration settings. But the one decision that’s very difficult to reverse is whether to use […] View original post at …