Boost your site with a CDN
How to boost your site with a CDN? As a web designer, you already know that great design is essential for a website—it’s the concept of design you trust, unless a website looks absolutely amazing, it’s going to be hard for new visitors to trust that site. That’s how essential great design is to a […]
Top 2 WordPress Caching Plugins to Make Your WordPress Website Faster
Your Internet experience is only as fast as the websites you visit. Typically, the best websites are also the ones with the quickest load times. A slow website makes for a terrible user experience, and let’s not forget the impact that it is likely to have on your search engine rankings. Google has confirmed the same in […]
WordPress 4.9 Template Detecting Issue
WordPress 4.9 was released just few hours ago. It is the second and last major WordPress release of 2017 with some exciting new features and enhancements. Problem Custom Template files wont detect after i have updated to WordPress 4.9 Solution Clear file cache, WordPress 4.9 A plugin to make it easy for theme developers to […]
Enable gzip compression
Enabling gzip compression is a standard practice. If you are not using it for some reason, your webpages are likely slower than your competitors. How to enable Gzip compression Compression is enabled via webserver configuration Different web servers have different instructions (explained below) Here are the most common ways to enable compression including .htaccess, Apache, […]
Leverage browser caching
What browser caching does is “remember” the resources that the browser has already loaded. When a visitor goes to another page on your website your logo, CSS files, etc. do not need to be loaded again, because the browser has them “remembered” (saved). This is the reason that the first view of a web page takes longer […]
Custom vs Pre-made WordPress Themes – Pros & Cons
So you’re launching a website with WordPress. Obviously, design and functionality are at the forefront of your mind. One of the first things you’ll need to decide is if your needs can be met by a pre-made theme with some customizations or if you need a fully custom theme developed just for you. There are […]
10 Useful WordPress Code Snippets
We know that plugins can be used to extend the functionality of WordPress. But what if you can do some smaller things in WordPress without installing them? Say, you dislike the admin bar at the top and wish to eliminate it? Yes, that can be accomplished by means of code snippets for WordPress. Basically, code snippets […]
11 Ways to Boost WordPress Websites
How to speed up WordPress surely is a hot topic these days. Fortunately, there are numerous techniques that you can employ to get the job done. 1. Choose a better web hosting provider The major factor that influences the speed of a website is the hosting of your WordPress website. It might seem like a […]
8 Design Techniques to Sharpen Your Skills
8 Design Techniques to Sharpen Your Skills, Once in a while, I just have to try something new. Maybe I feel my skills are slipping. Maybe I want to jumpstart the neurons responsible for my creativity. Maybe I’m bored. There are a lot of good reasons to take on a design challenge, really. Here are […]