Choosing the Best Option to Build a Website for your Business

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It’s a known fact that the world spends most of its time glued to the internet, which in turn also means that if your business is not ‘online’, you are losing out on a huge customer base. Since you are here, we know that you are already aware of this fact and want to know about the best options that will help you build a website and take your business to another level.

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Hardening WordPress Security: Tutorial for beginners

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With the growing impact of Internet on all facets of life, websites are increasingly dealing with private and sensitive customer data. A security breach can lead to your website getting hacked. It can result in a major security lapse for well-established businesses. It could potentially lead to irreparable damage to your reputation. Website developers need to understand security issues and take steps towards hardening WordPress security. As a web developer, you need to be able to assess the risks you’re facing. WordPress security is a complicated topic. In this article, we help you gain an overall better understanding of WordPress security. We also explain techniques to minimise and manage the security risks to your WordPress website. Most of these techniques are general and also, can be used for other Content Management Systems like Joomla, Magento etc.

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WordPress Functions Cheat Sheet: The Quick & Handy Guide for Developers

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Most WordPress themes and plugins look for ways to create lists of posts based on multiple conditions and criteria. You often need to determine what you need on a page and pulls posts accordingly. You may also need to use other information from the requests if you wish to create optimized pages. The WordPress database stores all data for posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, custom fields, users, site URLs etc. If we need more information on these then we need a way to extract this from the database. Writing direct SQL queries is not easy and not recommended. In this cheat sheet, we primarily look at the WordPress functions that provide an easy and reliable way to work with the database.

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Automatic WordPress Updates: Guide to Configure and Manage Effortlessly

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In WordPress, new updates (core updates, Plugin updates, Theme updates and Translation file updates) keep rolling out from time-to-time. All these updates are aimed at keeping your website safe from online security vulnerabilities and provide latest features to maintain the stability of the site. Sometimes, your WordPress site doesn’t respond well to new WordPress Updates. The themes and plugins you have installed on your site may fail to accommodate new updates. As a result, the loopholes, security vulnerabilities, bugs remain intact that may harm your site in the long run.

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Best Graphic Design Software: Top Tools for Professionals & Beginners

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Looking for the best graphic design software? Whether you’re a beginner or a professional, choosing the right tool can elevate your creative projects. Explore the top software for photo editing, logo design, web layouts, and more. From Adobe Photoshop to free options like GIMP, discover the features, pricing, and benefits of each to find the perfect match for your design needs.

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Top 8 Must-know UI Trends of 2017 (Infographic)

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In today’s digital world, it is essential to create a website that enhances your brand identity, boosts customer engagement and drives more traffic towards your business.

The customers are no more mere spectators. They expect a great user experience from all brands. You need to understand what customers’ tastes and preferences before you design your product. The product should be easy-to-use and efficient.

Therefore, it has become increasingly important to create websites that are user-friendly.

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Dreamweaver Alternative: Microsoft Visual Studio Code – Free and Open Source for Windows, Linux and Mac

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Dreamweaver, launched around two decades back, was one of the big Adobe releases till date. Packed with a heap of functionality and smart features, it took the web designing industry by storm. Only price users had (still have, though) to pay for this all-in-one package is its hefty subscription fee. With time, however, a lot of open-source Dreamweaver alternative tools came up which gave the paid ones a run for their money (literally speaking), but were soon overhauled for some reason or the other.

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How to Install Google Analytics on WordPress : Tutorial for Beginners

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Google Analytics is one of the most valuable tools available for websites, and what makes it a favorite of everyone is the fact that it’s free to use. You can use it to evaluate what’s working and what’s not working with your website, and it’s a great source of information about your website visitors. With more and more businesses using WordPress to develop their websites, it’s important to know the ins and outs of installing Google Analytics to work with your WordPress business website.

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SEO vs SEM vs SMO vs SMM: Which one is best for you?

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For some of us, SEO, SMO, SEM, and SMM, might as well be gibberish, however, these are the terms that lead to an increase in traffic and ultimately money. Falling under the umbrella term of Internet Marketing, these are some acronyms that you need to know and understand before you dive into experimenting with them.

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Web Development Tools

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knowing all web development tools can help you build a strong online presence. Have you have ever landed on a website that looked spectacular with some amazing features, and then you thought of designing a similar website? Well, if so, you are at the right place. A well-designed and well-performing website is all about the tools you have used to create your website. Also, it involves tools you are still using to maintain your website. So, in this guide, I will show you the best and most widely used web development tools to establish your website. So, let’s get busy!

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WordPress Settings API: Creating Custom Theme Options Yourself

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As a Theme Developer/Designer, you must always be thinking about what additional you can provide to your customers or clients. Well, the answer is  Custom Theme Options! Yes, you can customize your theme with WordPress Settings API which helps users with options to seamlessly modify its appearance. This is what you need right now and stay ahead in the game.

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WordPress Contextual Help: Adding Custom Help Text to Admin Menu Screens

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The WordPress built-in Administration Panel contains a Contextual Help section. This provides information to the user about the navigation and different settings displayed in the Admin Panel. A plugin usually adds additional Administration Panels to WordPress. As a web developer or web designer, you can provide additional support by providing contextual help for the plugin menus.

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Create SEO Friendly Images For WordPress: Optimize Images For Web

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Do you know optimized images for the web will increase the chances of a better SEO ranking for your website?  Understanding image optimization and the techniques for creating SEO-friendly images can be really helpful. This guide includes the tested and tried methods to optimize your images. So, without any further ado, let’s dig deeper and find about them. Here we go!

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Squarespace vs WordPress + TemplateToaster: The Solo vs The Fusion

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WordPress, the first thing that strikes in our minds every time we think of website building. WordPress is an immensely popular open source Content Management System(CMS) and is very intuitive. But, you need to have a good knowledge of coding to explore the possibilities to the fullest i.e. you need to be an expert or hire one to bring the best out of it.

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Google AMP: WordPress Businesses MUST Implement it (Why?)

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What a WordPress Business needs in today’s world, is a decreased bounce rate, an increased SEO ranking and a genie that makes them both a possibility! Fast forward to the present world’s genie – Google, who made this possible with AMPs! When WordPress decided to jump on board, an already great scenario became perfect for users with a WordPress Business.

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