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Heather Wood
10+ Year expert web designer & developer with an A.A. in Software Development and Bachelor of Science in Business – Information Technology
ULTIMATE GUIDE to Debugging Divi and Other WordPress Themes & Plugins
Do you have a broken Wordpress website from an update or what seems to be no reason at all? I'm going to let you in on a little secret from an expert in Wordpress repair and maintenance. In my 10 years of work, I've been able to fix or at least identify a broken...
Custom Reports in Google Analytics for Your Clients
Being that i'm a freelance web designer it's important that I spend time in the mornings looking over my Google analytics custom reports for each of my clients. I need to know the effectiveness of the on-site SEO in my website designs. It is also important to be able...
22 Methods to Increase Reputation, Credibility and Trust Online
Do you want to persuade people to buy or subscribe to your cause online? Good luck. Weary of a thousand "calls to action a day," internet readers are an extremely skeptical bunch, According to the Nielsen Norman Group, a web page user designer group How Long do Users...
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[Solved] WI-FI Connection Not Allowed – Android
Recently I had an unfortunate, life altering, first world problem. My LG Android phone refused to connect to the internet. In fact, it told ME that a wi-fi connection was not allowed. Not allowed? Who says? That's funny, because I've had this phone about 2 years now...
How To Fix a WordPress 5.0 Broken Website (Gutenberg Block Editor)
The new Wordpress 5.0 Editor (Gutenberg) is here and a lot of websites are going to feel the pain! But sometimes going thru a a little pain can be pleasant in the end, right? 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72xdCU__XCk&feature=youtu.be What Should You Do About...
Make Your Website GDPR Compliant in 4 Steps
What is GDPR? GDPR is a new law that was passed by the European government in an effort to protect individuals rights to their personal data and privacy. Simply put, they want everyone in the world to comply with this new law and make client data accessible and...
2018 – SEO Tips and Tactics List
Often I get calls about doing a website for a small business and the number one question on the potential clients mind is always, SEO. They want to know what SEO is and how I implement SEO into the website I am to build for them. Although I do follow an SEO guideline...
How to Change Portfolio or Project Gallery Image Sizes for Divi
Unfortunatly, you cannot change the sizing of gallery images for the portfolio grid in the CSS file. In this particular case, it's just a few lines of PHP code you're going to throw into your child themes functions.php file. Just make sure the featured images you add...
SOLVED: How To Make GoDaddy work with Gmail, Gravity Forms & Other WP Forms
The following article is one solution of a few to fix problems you could be facing when trying to make Wordpress form plugins work on GoDaddy servers(using either gmail or hosted email). In this case, the solution required that GoDaddy make the change on their end. So...
How To Bulk Optimize Video for Website Backgrounds
The Best Video Compressor and Converter My favorite place to optimize videos for website background use would have to be Converter Point. It's an online tool that doesn't require that you sign up to use it. You don't have to download some special program. Just upload...
The Rise of Coin Miner Viruses, Trojans & Spam
Staring in about November, I noticed a shift in the Matrix. There was a flood of attacks on websites that were being hacked by those goons behind the curtains. Horrible for website owners, an annoyance for web developers, and probably pretty fun for the hackers...
BidSketch Proposal Software Review by a Freelance Web Designer
What is proposal software? There is a huge difference between invoicing / quotation software and proposal software. Invoicing software is for collecting payments on accounts. Some invoicing software can even create quotes. I happen to use invoicing software myself,...
7 Steps to eCommerce Credit Card Processing
I often try my best to explain how credit card processing works with e-commerce websites to my clients. So I went ahead and had a very colorful and easy to follow infographic created to help the world in better understanding how credit card processing works. I have...
Speed Up Your WordPress Website Without Plugins
Let's speed up and optimize your wordpress website right now. This is more for advanced users who are comfortable with modifying the .htaccess file, php.ini file and wp-config. Remember, always back up your website before making any drastic changes like this. Step 1:...
Why WordPress is the Best CMS Platform for SEO?
Wordpress Has Come a Long Way Since 2003 When Wordpress first came on the scene back in 2003 it was primarily used as a blogging platform. Since that time it has grown to become the predominant content management system online making up approximately 28.8% of all of...
SOLVED: Divi Builder Continuous Loading & Failing to Function Properly
In the past year or so I've had a problems here and there with the divi builder not loading or functioning so I'm able to use it properly. I tried everything from clearing my browser cache, web cache, and server cache and none of that seemed to help. I deactivated...
How I Use Trello & Basecamp Project Management Systems to Save Hours of Time
As a freelance web designer who's been developing websites for over 7 years, it can be very easy to lose track of time and become unorganized if I don't utilized some sort of tool to keep me on my toes. I pride myself on the fact that I provide my clients a level of...
See How Hackers Penetrate Your Website & Understand Why They Do It
So this year I have taken it upon myself to dive deep into network internet security, website security and data security. In other words, i'm becoming educated in the art of how people break into websites and networks and how to keep them out! I never thought 7 years...
How to Use SSL Properly and Avoid the Yellow Lock Symbol
I'm sure you may have at one point seen this error in a browser window? Your connection to "your website" is encrypted with 128-bit encryption. However, this page includes other resources which are not secure. These resources can be viewed by others while in transit,...
How To Bulk Optimize Images for Faster Web Pages
There are several reasons you will need to optimize your images for web. Most digital cameras take very large high quality photos. And when left untouched and raw, they contain a lot of heavy information that is not needed to be served on a website. If you don't...
Heather Wood
Heather is a freelance web designer from Spokane, WA who offers powerful and affordable web design for your business needs.
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