Category: Web Design

The outage you found out about from a customer It’s the call every business owner dreads. A customer phones, mildly annoyed: “Hey, your website’s been down all morning — is everything okay?” And your stomach drops, because you had no...

The platform decision that’s harder to undo than you think Every small business building a website hits this fork: WordPress or Wix? (Or Squarespace, or Shopify, or one of a dozen others — but WordPress and Wix are the two...

The update you’ve been ignoring Open your WordPress dashboard right now and look at the update count. If you’re like most small business owners, there’s a number next to the Updates menu — plugins out of date, maybe a theme...

The “mobile-friendly” badge that means nothing You ran Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test back when it existed. Your theme was advertised as “fully responsive.” Your developer told you the site looks great on phones. The PageSpeed Insights mobile score is decent. And...

The attacks happening at 3 AM that nobody sees Open your WordPress dashboard at 3 AM and look at the security plugin logs. If you have a working firewall installed, you’ll see something most owners never realize: thousands of login...