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Alphabetical Glossary of Website Terms

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Having Weird Website Issues? Try Clearing Your Cache!

Literally THE first thing I recommend to my clients when they’re experiencing an oddball issue is to try clearing their cache.

CSS Basics for Designers: 5 Terms to Learn

1. em Similar to the concept of vectors in the design world. An em is a relative unit of measurement. It

How and Why You Should Define Your Brand Archetype

If you’re feeling lost when marketing your business, this may be your new secret weapon. Your brand archetype can act as

Design a Brand Identity with Me FROM SCRATCH!

Wondering what it looks like to design a logo and full brand identity from zero? Or just wanna judge my chaotic

The Process of Creating an Illustration Portfolio for Clients

In this video I outlined the process of creating custom illustration mockups for my colleague, collaborator, and friend, Matt Wood. We

Is It Accessible? Testing & Reviewing Amazon.com

Hating on Amazon is my favorite past time activity! I put Amazon.com through AccessScan to see what their accessibility grade is,

I Ran Elementor.com Through the Google Page Speed Test

I put Elementor’s website into Google’s Page Speed Insights tool to see what would happen — and I was honestly shocked

How to Backup & Restore Your WordPress Website

Never stress about breaking your website again! Flywheel’s Managed WordPress Hosting is a godsend for MANY reasons, and this is a

How to Set Up a WooCommerce Store From Scratch

In this tutorial, we’ll cover… The tool I mentioned for generating your own Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, Shipping & Returns

How to Integrate Calendly on Your Website

Streamline your meeting schedule (and sanity) by embedding a Calendly widget on your website! Try Calendly (it’s free): https://calendly.com Take mine

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How to Duplicate a Page in WordPress (or a Blog Post)

“How do I make a copy of a blog post or page in WordPress?” Learn how to clone (copy & paste)

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Designing a Powerpuff Girls Inspired Graphic in Adobe Illustrator

Plz don’t sue me Cartoon Network. Here’s the font I mentioned: https://www.dafont.com/powerpuff-girls.font Video Transcript: What’s up, guys? I’m gonna do something

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Set Up Your WordPress Dashboard for Success

How I personally set up my WordPress dashboard for optimum efficiency and ease of use — as someone who has built

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How to Host Your WordPress Website with Flywheel

In ThIs ViDeO, I’ll walk you through how to set up a brand new shiny WordPress website using the Flywheel dashboard.

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5 Topics to Get You Started with Blogging for Your Business

REGARDLESS of your industry or niche, a blog can work wonders for you. It keeps the content fresh on your website

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Which Multimedia File Types to Use on Your Website

Here are a few best practices for keeping your website loading quickly and running smoothly. Learn when to use web-specific images

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5 FREE Tools to Set Up Your Business For Worldwide Success

Below are five tools I use daily to keep my (mostly) online business up and running smoothly, and accessible worldwide! 1.

5 Housekeeping Tips for Your WordPress Website in 2024

Here’s to a more proactive, fresh, secure, and spam-free WordPress website in 2024! Want to sleep soundly at night? Do the

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Legal Risks of Owning an Inaccessible Website and How You Can Get Yours Fixed ASAP

No one wants to deal with a legal scare out of the blue, and I’m here to help you prevent that!

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16 Ways to Create An Accessible Business

Kindness > everything. These are all things I’ve become more and more cognizant of over the last few years, while working

6 Tips to Improve Your WordPress Website’s SEO

SEO is not something that I personally specialize in, as it’s similar to social media where it’s an entirely different world and

When to Use em, rem, px, %, vh, and vw in Web Design

Phew, what a title, am I right? 😅 So…you want to build a website (or maybe, don’t want to, but NEED

My Top 5 Favorite Productivity Tools

1. Notion I use Notion for pretty much everything these days. Project management, to-do lists (personal and work-related), taking notes during

What to Include on Your Personal Website

1. A photo of you in your element 📸 At your desk, sketching, painting a mural; whatever it is you do!

Top 4 Design Components of a Website

Designing a website can seem a bit daunting, but it’s not so bad if you break it into lil bite-sized design

Why You Should Use Flywheel to Host Your WordPress Website

1. Flywheel offers “Managed” WordPress Hosting Which, in a nutshell, means it will save you a ton of time and effort.

Create Your Own Link-in-Bio Page Using Elementor

* I’m using the default WordPress 2020 theme here with my own font and color styles, so it may look slightly

My Top 5 Favorite WordPress Plugins

1. Elementor I can’t express my love for this plugin enough. I listed it as #1 for a reason! Elementor is

How to Build a Custom Website Menu Using Elementor

I’m going to show you how I created this simple menu for Reboot. Let’s dive in! 1. Create a new template

How to Build a Color & Type Library in Adobe XD

Document Assets Library First things first, if you don’t see your Document Assets Library on the left tab of your screen,

How to Rename Your Files in Bulk (Using Mac’s Finder)

First, select all of the files that you want to rename Next, decide how you want to rename your files Method

Web Lingo 101: 4 Backend Dev Terms You Should Know

1. Domain Your domain is simply the primary URL that someone enters to find your website. For example, one of mine

Why I Learned Web Dev (and Why ALL Designers Should!)

Don’t get me wrong, I love design, and it’ll always be my main priority. But I’ve always had an interest in

Web Lingo 101: 8 Web Terms You Should Know

Try using these words to better communicate with clients, coworkers, or a developer. They will think you really know your sh*t…because

Quick Type Spacing Tricks Using HTML

How often have you been working on your website, needing a 1/2 space or a 4x space, to position your type

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How to Find Your Screen Resolution

Sometimes you need to know your exact screen resolution to be able to troubleshoot sizing issues on the web. Finding your

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Saving Images for Web Using Photoshop: 2 Methods

Using Photoshop’s “Save for Web” feature, you can easily save your images without ruining the quality like many other image compressors

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