Formed in 2001, MailChimp is a hugely popular email marketing platform with over 14 million customers. The service is particularly popular with bloggers. It is easy to understand why as MailChimp is free to use until you have gained a readership. They permit up to 2,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails …
WordPress is the platform of choice for many real estate agents. It is easy to understand why. WordPress provides a versatile content management system which can be easily extended via plugins, however it is the variety of real estate themes available for WordPress that are attracting people from the real …
Paid Member Subscriptions is a versatile membership WordPress plugin that allows you to create a membership website that accepts recurring payments. The plugin can be used to restrict content to members of certain groups. Created by Cozmoslabs, the plugin is 100% free to download. Certain features are not available in …
CaptainForm is a feature rich form WordPress plugin that boasts a lot of great features. I met up with the CaptainForm team at the Belfast WordCamp in September and was keen to look at their product further. The plugin is free to download from WordPress.org, but the premium versions of …
An email list means big business for organizations. In fact, it’s not only a beautiful way to get people back to your online store, blog or forum, but if you have enough people on the list it serves as a way to show off your social credibility. Telling people that your …
Known spammers and sources of malware are placed on internet blacklists. There are a number of different types of blacklists used online. Blacklist monitoring lists, for example, are used by large email services such as Gmail, Outlook (Hotmail), and Yahoo. They use blacklists to filter emails for their customers. If …
A subdomain is a subdivision of a domain name. The most common subdomain on the internet is www (i.e. www.kevinmuldoon.com); however many website owners use subdomains for different areas of a website. For example, a website owner could use blog.website.com for their blog, forums.website.com for their forums, shop.website.com for their …
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 …
Few people will argue that the star of WordCamp Europe 2016 was PixelRockstar. More specifically, the stars of the event were Wapuu and the PixelRockstar team who walked around for a couple of days taking polaroid pictures of everyone. It was a fantastic marketing ploy that caught the attention of …