There are a few options out there to design your website for free. Companies like WIX come to mind. Keep in mind that with WIX you never own your website. You are stuck with them forever. It still takes a lot of time to design a site, and if you are not a designer, chances are the site will not end up looking how you envisioned it. WiX sites typically do not perform great, and they are not as SEO friendly as other platforms. Most of our customers with a WIX site have moved on to WordPress.
Styling your drop down text
With the basic wordpress install, you are able to nicely style the menu colors etc, but I have run into a problem several times where I use the same color to highlight which page I am on as the color of the background of my dropdown. So if I had a blue nav bar, my…
Contact Form 7 Clear textarea
Last time we talked about how to clear the input labels on Contact From 7 using a slight hack to the code. This is great for simply using input labels, but what about a text area? As I quickly found it, it doesn’t work. Why is doesn’t work is because the text area is controlled…
Completed Google Analytics Essentials
I just finished the Google Analytics Essential Training on Lynda.com. I thought it was well done and I did learn a few new things to help me better understand web traffic and how we can use GA to increase sales. The course is about four and a half hours, so it does take some time,…
