Creekside Blog

A client recently asked me to speak to a class for new business owners about the basics of what they should consider when building a brand new website. What follows are—in no particular order—the most common terms and concepts I end up going over with clients building a new website. Websites 101.

A common question that I get from clients is how to upload a PDF to WordPress and add to the menu that you have on the site. Like a lot of things in WordPress, it’s easy but not necessarily intuitive. Let me show you how.

WordPress is about to go through a major overhaul, and for those of you who edit your own sites and write your own blog posts, you will notice a major difference in the back end editor. This new editor is called…

Gutenberg.

“How does blogging help SEO, and how much effort should I put into it?” This is a common question from clients. Here is a highly simplified explanation.

A quick video tutorial on using the Divi Theme Library for greater control over your site.

A video tutorial on the very basic functions of WordPress, specifically pages, posts, categories and tags, and the functions they each serve.

A client recently asked me to speak to a class for new business owners about the basics of what they should consider when building a brand new website. What follows are—in no particular order—the most common terms and concepts I end up going over with clients building a new website. Websites 101.

A common question that I get from clients is how to upload a PDF to WordPress and add to the menu that you have on the site. Like a lot of things in WordPress, it’s easy but not necessarily intuitive. Let me show you how.

WordPress is about to go through a major overhaul, and for those of you who edit your own sites and write your own blog posts, you will notice a major difference in the back end editor. This new editor is called…

Gutenberg.

“How does blogging help SEO, and how much effort should I put into it?” This is a common question from clients. Here is a highly simplified explanation.

A quick video tutorial on using the Divi Theme Library for greater control over your site.

A video tutorial on the very basic functions of WordPress, specifically pages, posts, categories and tags, and the functions they each serve.

RE: Design. A (hopefully) regular feature on my blog featuring the best of the many web design related articles I read in the course of a week. This week: content management systems and the seemingly irrational cognitive processes that drive user choices.