Building a Captivating Website Header
If your website was a house, your header would be the lawn. It’s the first thing users see, and it dictates whether they keep driving or stop to take a look the house.…
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WordCamp Edinburgh 2017 – A HeroThemes Retrospective
Edinburgh is a beautiful city, overlooked by a 12th century castle that crowns the skyline. CodeBase, the tech incubator played an excellent host for weekend’s events at WordCamp Edinburgh 2017.…
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6 Inspiring Behance Projects to Help You Out of a Creative Block
Creative work—whether you’re a visual designer, developer, UX designer, etc.—comes with a challenge most jobs don’t have: the occasional total lack of inspiration. Stumped as to how you can keep the ideas flowing when you’re feeling tapped out?…
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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Self-help Content
Do you know how much money you spend each time a customer contacts you for support?
I’m not talking about the money spent on the issue resolution.…
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A Brand New Editor for the WordPress Mobile Apps
Now that so many of us carry around tiny pocket-size computers, more and more of our Internet time happens on phones and tablets — not just browsing, but creating.…
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How to Optimize Conversion Rate with Persuasive Web Design
(Guest writer: Nera Crus)
When people think about an effective web design, they usually consider aesthetics and visual appeal. However, apart from the visual aspect, a web design must also have a good user experience.…
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Customizing Bootstrap Layouts: Trends, Tools & Frameworks
Bootstrap is currently the number one front-end framework and easily the quickest way to build layouts. It has been around for years and third-party developers have even published their own resources online.…
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Try These E-commerce Web Design Trends for Better Sales
E-commerce sites need to incorporate a flawless design, UI, and UX to impress customers. When your website looks crisp and is intuitive, users are more likely to spend time on your website and eventually purchase your products or services.…
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Default Email Address
You may notice an email address in your GreenGeeks account called “Default.” That email account is automatically created when your cPanel user is created.
On some systems, a default email address acts as a “catch-all.”…
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How to Password Protect an Entire WordPress Site
Want to keep your WordPress site away from prying eyes?! It’s really easy to password protect your whole WordPress site.
Simplest method – “Password Protected” plugin
You just need this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-protected/…
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Convert Sketch Designs to HTML Newsletters with Slinky
Most code exporting tools are clunky and not very reliable. However, Slinky is a different kind of exporter for Sketch, that turns your designs into fully-compatible newsletter templates.…
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[Case Study] Why Zero BS CRM moved their entire documentation to KnowAll
In this case study, we’ll learn about how Zero BS CRM improved their support documentation through our KnowAll WordPress theme. Mike Stott, a man wearing many hats at Zero BS CRM, spent some time talking with us about how KnowAll helped Zero BS CRM’s knowledge base, as well as some interesting ways in which Mike and the team are integrating their own Zero BS CRM plugin with our KnowAll theme.…
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How to Enable Email Authentication
Email authentication makes it more difficult for spammers to “spoof” (make an email appear that it came from your domain) email addresses on your domain. It can also validate email sent from your domain, greatly reducing deliverability issues.…
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How to Protect Your Email From Spam
No one likes being bombarded by unsolicited junk email. Luckily, there is a way to significantly reduce the amount of spam that makes it to your inbox.
Email applications like Mozilla Thunderbird have built-in spam filtering.…
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How to Setup the MX Record for Your Domain Names
What if you have a website hosted with one provider but want your email to arrive at another? That’s when changing the Mail Exchange record comes into play.…
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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2017)
Time flies and we are now in the middle of 2017. In this month’s installment, we have an array of great JavaScript libraries and a few others like a plugin to enable GraphQL in WordPress, a desktop application to render CSV data, and a few website frameworks.…
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You Can Now Schedule Your Social Media Posts from WordPress.com
Keeping up with social media can feel like a full-time job these days — and for many it is. Posting your content on Twitter and Facebook during specific hours, and keeping things evenly spaced out, means that you need to tend to your profiles pretty often.…
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How to Check Email Ports
Ports are access points connected to your domain. Certain tools and functions will operate on specific ports. This offers a level of security and makes accessing those tools possible.…
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WordPress.com Teams Up with Rebrand Cities to Bring Local Businesses Online
Cities are collections of neighborhoods — and neighborhoods are powered by small business. From coffee shop owners to fitness instructors, therapists to thrift stores, it’s the people we see in the storefronts next door who build and reinforce the unique character of our cities.…
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Join Us in the Fight for Net Neutrality
Automattic strongly believes in a free and open Internet and it’s hard to imagine a truly open Internet without Net Neutrality.
What Is Net Neutrality?
“Net Neutrality” is the simple but very powerful principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally.…
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