If you don’t already have a subscription option for your posts to get emailed out, you should. I use Mailchimp because it’s free for my number of subscribers and has great features. Speaking of which, if you haven’t already signed up for my newsletter, you should! I have Mailchimp set up with automation so every…
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Cloudflare: A Simple Answer to a Faster Site
Now that site speed plays such an important role in SEO, I’ve had more and more customers ask me how to speed up their site. The sad news is that there aren’t too many easy ways. Most of the things you can do take significant time to make just a tenth of a second difference…
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Make Your Own Graphics with Canva.com
I just discovered this little gem called Canva. Although I LOVE design, I’ve always had a better brain for coding than designing. But Canva makes me look like a pro! Canva has prepared beautiful images with artful text and design and allows you to customize the designs to your needs. Many options are free and…
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Google Fonts
I was just looking over my site and realized I had never done a post on Google Fonts, one of my main website design tools. Although this should probably be included with the 101 tutorials because it’s one of the first things most of my students ask is to how to change the fonts, it’s…
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Browser Testing/Responsive Design Testing
Although I have quite a few devices, it’s impossible to have enough devices to do all the testing I need to do. So, in order to see how the websites that I develop look on different devices/browsers, I’m going to compile a list of my favorites here. BroswerStack This is one of my favorites with…
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Responsive Testing Resources: Responsinator.com
I just found out about this great site that helps you test your responsive design on different devices. My first line of testing as always been changing the size of the browser window, but things don’t always look the same. I have seen sites like this before in the past and used them, but I never…
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MailPoet (Wysija): The Easiest Newsletter Option
Update: Wysija newsletters are now called MailPoet. I’m a busy person like I’m sure you are. I don’t have time to spend all day designing a newsletter and keeping up with Constant Contact or MailChimp accounts for myself. I’m not trying to sell anything here, I’m just trying to spread my message about the easiest…
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