by Laura | Jan 29, 2018 | Design, Web Design, WordPress
On the surface, choosing a WordPress theme is a simple enough proposition: Find a theme with a look you like that matches your brand aesthetic and you’re good to go. But while the primary purpose of a theme is to dictate how your website is styled, there is much...
by Laura | Jan 22, 2018 | Creative Entrepreneurship, Design, Recommended Tools, Web Design, WordPress
Plugins are the clockwork of your WordPress website. Want to make your site perform some really cool function? There’s a plugin for that. Plugins are bits of code programmed to perform a specific function. The following list contains my go-to plugins for optimal...
by Laura | Jan 15, 2018 | Creative Entrepreneurship, Design, Web Design, Website Building, WordPress
There are many, many factors and decisions that go into making a website. It’s not just about what looks good on screen. You must consider the visual aspect, of course, but also how different elements interact, how the website works, and the audience who will be...
by Laura | Jan 8, 2018 | Creative Entrepreneurship, Design, Good Practices, Web Design, Website Building, WordPress
If you’ve spent any time at all in the realm of WordPress, you’ve probably heard about “child themes.” You can go to numerous websites and find child themes for Divi, StudioPress, GeneratePress, and any other WordPress framework you can think...
by Laura | Jan 1, 2018 | Web Design, WordPress
I think that non-designers get hung up by asking, What is WordPress? Really, it’s a lot of things: a blogging platform, a website platform, an e-commerce platform. But that’s more about what it can do. WordPress is a CMS Long story short: WordPress is a...
by Laura | May 29, 2017 | Creative Entrepreneurship, Web Design, WordPress
Something I’m seeing a lot from WordPress newbies? “I had no idea there was a wordpress.org AND a wordpress.com.” We in the design industry talk about WordPress so often, but we forget about the important qualifiers. There are actually BIG...
