How to Make Your Site Faster

This is a common question I’m asked – how do I make my site faster? While there are a variety of techniques that I use to help speed up a site, decreasing the image load is often the one thing that helps the most. But what does that mean, exactly? So...

Your Website is Super Slow Because …

"Why is my site so slow?" is a question I get asked a lot. It’s not always an immediate thing — sometimes a site slows down over time, or after some changes have been made. But in general, there are a few things that nearly always contribute to a...

Resources for Editing Pics

Adding pictures to your blog posts, Facebook posts, and tweets is a great way to get attention … but you don’t want to take up a lot of time. Here are some great options for quickly making eye-catching photos for your posts: Online Picmonkey for editing,...

How She Does It: Sarah Prout

This post is the sixth in the "How They Do It" series, where I will be featuring entrepreneurs and the solutions they are using to launch and run their businesses. In this edition, I’m chatting with Sarah Prout. Sarah Prout is the co-founder of...

Setting a Featured Image in WordPress

Featured Images in WordPress are used differently by different themes In some themes, they are used as a thumbnail for the post. In some, they are used as the image that is supplied to Facebook or Pinterest for linking. Regardless of how your current theme uses them,...

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