Although I consider myself more of a WordPress guy, Joomla has been a close second in terms of my favorites. What’s funny is that if you speak to someone who works with Joomla they’ll probably say the exact opposite. Why? Because both WordPress and Joomla work as open source content …
In order to piece together an eCommerce store you need WordPress, WooCommerce and a theme that fits your brand. WordPress and WooCommerce come for free, but most serious businesses go out and choose from one of the many premium WooCommerce themes. You can also select a free WooCommerce theme, but …
The glory of WooCommerce lies in the fact that it’s completely opensource. That means your average developer can tap into the API and make a plugin that improves the functionality of WooCommerce. WordPress users are used to this type of system, since it seems like any feature desired can be …
Far too often I see blog posts about WordPress, but what about its oh so sweet brother, Drupal? The two platforms are rather similar, in that Drupal comes as an opensource content management system, perfect for making anything from blogs to eCommerce websites. Similar to WordPress, Drupal works nicely for …
Pro Rank Tracker is a hugely popular SEO tracking solution that helps you check your rankings. It can be used to improve the performance of your websites in search engines and give you a complete picture of how your websites are ranked. The service provides a lot of interesting reports. …
An effective landing page means far more to your business than you could ever imagine. It’s a fact that products and services receive more conversions when you layout the benefits, media components and pictures in a well-designed landing page. This is particularly true if you plan on paying for Google …
When considering the use of an Adobe product, one might immediately assume that you’re going to need complex skills such as coding or graphic design. However, Adobe Muse is a little different. Although Muse is generally utilized by web developers, it cuts out the need for coding, making it far …
The other day I shared with you 10 Ways to Lazy Load Images and Videos in WordPress. Using lazy load can drastically improve page loading times and reduce bandwidth. Another key aspect of reducing the weight of images and improving website performance is to optimise your images. I have always …
Website page loading times are greatly affected by the weight of images on a page since each image on a page has to be downloaded from your website server to the visitor’s computer. The more images there are on a page, the higher your total page size will be; which …
WP Engine is a popular managed WordPress hosting service that boasts over 50,000 customers across 120 countries in the world. I have spoken about WP Engine a lot over the last month; most recently in my chat with David Vogelpohl of WP Engine. A managed WordPress hosting solution such as …