Use a Professional Email Address for Your Business
If you're still using a Gmail or Yahoo address for your business, you're undermining your own credibility. A custom domain email is cheap, easy, and makes a real difference.
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Quick Tips
Quick, practical advice for managing your website. The basics every site owner should know.
Upload Full-Size Images to WordPress — Let It Handle the Rest
One of the most common mistakes I see: people resize their images before uploading them to WordPress. Don't. Upload the original and let WordPress do its job.
Read more →Compress Your Images Before Uploading Them to Your Website
The single biggest reason websites load slowly is uncompressed images. A few seconds of preparation before uploading can cut your page load time in half.
Read more →Add Alt Text to Every Image on Your Website
Alt text is one of those things that takes ten seconds per image and yet almost nobody does it. It makes your site accessible and helps your Google ranking. Here's how to do it right.
Read more →Get Serious About Password Security
I see crazy-weak passwords every day. Otherwise perfectly smart people pick the weakest passwords for their website admin logins. Please do it right. It's easy, I promise.
Read more →Stop Image Harvesters From Downloading All Your Images
Not everyone thinks they should have to pay to use the great images on your website. And tools exist that download all images on a site at the click of a button. Here's how to fight back.
Read more →Switch Your Website to HTTPS
HTTPS is no longer optional. It protects your visitors, improves your Google ranking, and avoids the dreaded 'Not Secure' browser warning. Here's what you need to know.
Read more →Make Your Website Mobile-Friendly
All websites should be responsive. But what does responsive mean? Why is it so important? Will it affect your Google ranking? Here are some answers.
Read more →Recognize Fake Comments on Your Website
Those sweet-but-slightly-weird comments you get on your blog are fake. They look more or less normal. They're always positive. But they are total baloney. Here's how to spot them.
Read more →Photographers: Protect Your Archive Images With a Watermark
The only truly effective way to protect your images from theft online is embedding a watermark. Archive images are different from portfolio images, and they need different protection strategies.
Read more →The Correct Copyright Notice on a Photographer's Website
Under US law a copyright notice is no longer required to protect copyright. Yet it makes sense to include one. A copyright notice indicates that a work is protected by copyright, identifies the copyright owner and shows the year of first publication.
Read more →How to Find Your Blogging Voice
Blogging is hard. It takes time. People will judge the result. And what will you write about anyway? Here are several reasons to have a blog and ways to find your voice.
Read more →Writing Your About Page
Your About page is one of the most visited pages on your website. It's where potential clients go to decide if they want to work with you. Here's how to write one that builds trust.
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