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 in turn means that your … Read more
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 WP Engine offers many things … Read more
One week ago David Vogelpohl from WP Engine kindly took the time to speak to me via a conference call. The discussion was positive and informative. One of the reasons that I wanted to chat to someone from WP Engine was because I had many concerns about the company in the past. I touched about … Read more
I was lucky enough to meet a lot of interesting people in Vienna when I was there for WordCamp Europe 2016. One interesting person I met was Eugeniu Topolschi who works with the highly successful WordPress theme company Tesla Themes. Their latest Project is WPmatic. Launched today, WPmatic is a WordPress support service that offers … Read more
Reviews are vital to the success of a product or service. Good reviews encourage people to buy. Bad reviews discourage them from buying. In the WordPress world, reviews can make or break a developer’s product. Review ratings are prominently displayed next to themes and plugins on WordPress.org. They give website owners good feedback on the … Read more
It is a week since I returned from WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna, Austria. This was the second European WordCamp event I had attended and my second WordCamp event overall. Those of you who read my account of last year’s event will know that the event in Vienna had a lot to live up to. … Read more
Facebook ranks as the third most used website on the internet behind Google and YouTube and the most popular social media service by far. This is why it is so important to integrate Facebook into your website. If you want integrate the service beyond a Facebook follow button and Facebook like buttons, you may want … Read more
Google Maps is one of my favourite online services. One of the reasons it has become so successful is because of how developers can integrate Google Maps into their own projects. I see Google Maps used every day in mobile apps and website contact forms. 10Web have created a fantastic WordPress Google maps plugin called … Read more
Whilst wasting time on Twitter the other day I came across a link bait article by Make a Websitehub that looked at the best WordPress plugins for SEO, social media, and conversion rate optimisation. Infographics have been overwhelming the internet the last few years, but what stood out about the infographic is that it showed … Read more
Companies spend a lot of time tweaking their landing pages and testing results to see what helps increase sales and what does not. One of the most effective ways of increasing sales to your product or service is to adopt a professional looking pricing table. Pricing tables are common place online. Every website hosting company … Read more