Posts by Lynette Chandler
How To Redesign An Existing WordPress Site In The Background
Throwing up a new design used to be easy in the days when pages were static HTML, developed locally and the designer has 100% control. To redesign an existing WordPress site however, is a bit more complicated. Widgets are often displaced. So if you have a widget heavy theme before, chunks of your content might be…
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How I Recovered Our Brand’s Twitter Username
Late last year, we re-branded our plugin business to Plugin Mill. At that time, I didn’t think too much about social media. The focus was 100% on the re-branding process and making sure customers and affiliates alike were taken care of. Now, we were ready for social media and more marketing and so, I set…
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Design Clear Actions
It almost feels like a game – hide and seek – to find the proper buttons for the action you want to take on website anymore. Why is this? Make it clear what you want someone to do next. Seth Godin has some perspective on this subject of the first rule of web design. Another…
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Can You Run Your Business Without Google?
As many of us know the changes in Google’s algorithms can cause your rankings to plummet which can hurt business among the many other things you can be penalized for. I came across an article titled Is Google Really Such an Evil Business. I think it’s like anything else really – too much of any one…
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25 Things Your Assistant Can Automate For You Today
We equate automation with technology and machines. Mindless robots, performing repetitive tasks. While that is true most times, not everything that runs by itself is programatic or mechanical. If you build your system, your assistants can ‘automate’ aspects of your business too. The key word here is building a system. But that’s for another day.…
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