When you have a website, it needs to live somewhere on the web – this is what website hosting is. Website hosting can range anywhere from $3 a month to $99+. Not all website hosting is created equal. Budget hosting plans from places like Hostgator or Go Daddy get the job done … barely. You will find your website will perform worse in terms of load times vs. a premium hosting company. They will also lack features like staging servers, high-speed SSD, Free SSL, and more. Google is penalizing slow website in search rankings, so it is more important than ever that your site loads quickly. For that reason, we only use premium hosting for our clients.
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,…
