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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...
What You Should Know About Converting Website Visitors To Clients
Why Do You Need a Website? No longer do we live in the age where phone books are used. Today, We use our cell phones, tablets and computers to access information at our fingertips. We rely on search engines such as google and bing, to retrieve that information we are...
The Ultimate Guide to Moving A WordPress Website
This post is primarily for my use as I'm finding that I've had to move WordPress websites on many occasions. Weather it be moving a WordPress website from a localhost to a server online or just moving WordPress from a sub directory to the root. I've taken the time...
Review of Zero Bullshit CRM for WordPress Plugin
Enter Here for The Drawing To Win $1, 000 Worth of Free Extensions For this cool CRM In this review I'm going to take a look at the new Zero Bullshit CRM Wordpress plugin by Epic Plugins. Learn a whole new way on how to manage clients & invoicing like a boss. A...
So You Want To Provide Coaching Online? Here’s What You Need To Know.
1. What Do Successful Online Coaches Have In Common? I'm assuming that you want to do some coaching of some sort because you know you have experience and knowledge in a certain subject matter that is important to you. So naturally, this subject you are familiar with...
12 Free Online Tools I Use As a Freelance Web Designer
Development & Debugging Support Details Support details is a great debugging tool when you get clients whom tell you that they see a bug that you just can't seem to replicate on your end. Understanding the OS and browser environment your client uses will help you...
Siteground Hosting Review by a Freelance Web Designer
I work primarily with WordPress and WordPress-specific sites, so I require a host, not only for my own websites, but which offers the infrastructure I need to ensure that I'm taking care of my clients websites as well. SiteGround offers the essential services needed...
How To Properly Create A Google Business Account
When you are trying to create a social network, your Google account is going to be the most important one you will create. ONE Google account will give you access to Google Analytics, YouTube, G+, Gmail, Drive, and more. In the past I have witnessed clients whom have...
Completely Remove Programs from a Mac
I often download apps from the app store or 3rd party developers to try them out and see how I like it. Often times, I find I no longer have use for the app or just don't like it in general. I don't like the thought of a program I'm not using on my computer, still...
How to Create a Temp URL for WordPress Development
If you're a Wordpress developer/designer, especially a freelance developer, you know how beneficial it is to develop a site while it's live. Not only is it helpful when debugging plugins/themes/etc...but it's great to be able to give your clients a URL that will allow...
Create a Custom Message for Outbound Links in WordPress
Recently I had to create a custom message that would warn users before they left the current website they were on. The user also had to have the option to cancel if they did not want to move forward with going to the outbound link. This is an awesome alternative if...
How To Become a Freelance Web Designer
Over the 5 years I've been a freelance web designer, I've had many people contact me wondering how I got started and asking me several questions as to the life of freelancing. So I decided to create this post that will benefit many people if they are indecisive about...
Is web “DESIGN” important to visitors?
On occasion I get a prospective client or two who sincerely ask me, "Does it really matter what the website looks like?". Every time I hear something like this, I have a little heart attack and shake my head. Have you ever seen an episode of the popular ABC show Shark...
Spokane’s Top Rated Web Designer, It’s ME!
It can be very difficult to achieve any kind of rating as a web designer. And don't let a rating fool you either. I mean, I'm very happy to be labeled a Top web designer by Thumbtack, such a large corporation, but in reality, it's just an automated process. I just...
Why I Won’t Use Managed WordPress Hosting
Well, if you want to get technical, I technically do use managed Wordpress hosting. But what I'm trying to really say is why I don't use most of the common managed Wordpress hosting solutions out there. This is a real review of hosting solutions, by a real web...
Transferring A WordPress Website from One Host to Another
If you haven't found a way to move a Wordpress website that you felt comfortable with, I'm about to show you the way most host companies do it for you. This is the raw, advanced way to to it. So if you don't understand code, I wouldn't attempt this. (really, I'm just...
Social Buzz – A social media sharing wordpress plugin
Social Buzz is a unique approach to a social media sharing plugin for wordpress. It adds a couple features you may not see in other social plugins. First, a total of shares displayed very prominently at view. When other people have shared an article, it entices other...
FusionInvoice – Client Invoicing & Management
As a freelance web designer, I normally like to do most tasks myself. Invoicing and client management being one of them. A few years back when I started my freelance business, I researched a TON of different solutions that would allow me to keep track of my client's...
Why You Should Never Make a Free Website
Many prospective clients call me asking lots of questions. One question that comes up often is "what is the difference from building a free (or cheap) website and hiring a professional designer to build a website?" Here is what I tell them. Problem 1: You never own...
Heather Valencia
Heather is a freelance web designer from Spokane, WA who offers powerful and affordable web design for your business needs.
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