How Much Does a Custom WordPress Plugin Cost?
Some questions don’t really have an answer until you ask the question a bit more precisely. If you’re just here for a numerical answer, here it is: “Between $100 and $10,000,000.” Why the large range?...
View ArticleThree Easy Steps to On-Site SEO with WordPress
Search engine optimization (SEO) is complex, difficult to understand, and invites a lot of superstition and folklore—as well as a fair amount of outright fraud. It’s also really important. As a result,...
View ArticleSearch Engine Optimization (SEO): An Overview
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of working to improve the position of a website in search engine results pages. The desired outcome is that your website will be found by more people,...
View ArticleWhat Results To Expect From SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) is an important way to grow your site’s visitors, and, consequently, your clients or customers. In last week’s overview on SEO, we made the point that SEO is not...
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What SEO Keywords Are, and How They Can Increase Your Site Traffic
In the previous articles in this series on search engine optimization (SEO), we’ve briefly touched on SEO and how it can help your business online. Today’s post takes a deeper look at the role of...
View ArticleWhat an SEO Professional Can Do For Your Website
Now that you’ve got a good understanding of what search engine optimization (SEO) is and how it can help you get more of the right kind of visitors, you might be interested in working with an SEO...
View ArticleWhat You’ll Need to Invest in Your Website
A website is not a purchase; it’s an ongoing investment. This is perhaps the most important thing you can hear before having a site built. We’ll be exploring this distinction by looking at what proper...
View ArticleVideo: The Three Plans You Need to Have in Place Before Starting a Website
Here’s a video about what makes websites succeed and fail. The video explains that every website needs three kinds of plans to succeed: A strategic plan: the overall vision (inspiration) for the site,...
View ArticleWhen You Might Need to Develop Your Own WordPress Plugin
There are more than 30,000 free plugins available for WordPress, not to mention all the premium options out there. While many of these plugins duplicate one another, that is still a lot of features...
View ArticleHow to Plan a Successful Web Project
It’s too easy to plan out a web project in terms of technologies rather than solutions. Too many web projects don’t meet their goals. The project could be the wrong solution for the right goal, the...
View ArticleStarting Small: Creating a Minimum Viable Product
A common mistake entrepreneurs make is to start with a very specific idea and grind as hard as possible to make it work. This might work out great—but as many entrepreneurs learn, it’s far too easy to...
View ArticleWhat Your Minimum Viable Product Should Be Measuring
In our last article we introduced you to the idea of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and covered some of the internal challenges that often arise when you prepare to share a beta version of your...
View ArticleWhy You Need a Plan for Site Support
The moment your website launches, support starts. Ongoing support is one of the most underappreciated costs of owning a website. The moment your website launches, support starts. Believing otherwise is...
View ArticleSite Support: Hiring Your Developer on Retainer
This post continues an earlier post on site support, which we can summarize as follows: You’re going to need site support. You’re going to need a plan for site support. Here, we cover one of your best...
View ArticleGreat Web Projects Start With the Right Goals
One of the marks of good web professionals is that they’re partners in strategy. I recently spoke with Matt from 3thought, a graphic design team we love, about working with them on a redesign project....
View ArticleFour Tricks for Properly Signalling Your Web Development Budget
Just like a car, a web project could cost almost anything depending on your needs and budget. Your developer needs to know both. “I want a car. How much will that cost?” Web developers confront this...
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“What do you mean my site is ‘Not secure’!?”: SSL, HTTPS, and how you can get...
Hi everyone! My name is Corey Adkins, I’m a junior developer working for Press Up and will be publishing new content here from time to time. Here’s something I wrote originally for my site, GoodPress...
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WordPress 5, and Why You Should Update your Site Right Away
The new year is often a time of new things: new resolutions, new jobs, new (or renewed) gym memberships. This year, we also get a brand new version of WordPress, WordPress 5. The arrival of WordPress...
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5 Easy Steps to Keep Your WordPress Site Secure
Web Security is one of the most challenging, complex, and honestly scary topics that can come up for owners of web businesses. This goes doubly so when it comes to security in the world’s most popular...
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Three Simple Ways to Increase Your Site Speed
Having a fast-loading website should be a top priority for any business. Not only does it dramatically improve the user experience, as anyone who has frustratingly had to wait while a site crawls in...
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