Rebecca Gill

The new year is upon us and its time to get ready for a successful 2013. We’re kicking the year off by offering our website audit for free to website visitors. This fifteen page report will assist you in evaluating if your website ready for the year ahead. Why Perform a Website Audit? We believe in the power of the Internet and we believe anyone can turn their website into a profit center. It just takes a little introspection, some knowledge of web design and SEO, organization, and a lot of due diligence. We believe the best audits are done by an impartial person who who is an experienced web developer and/or SEO expert. Unfortunately not everyone can afford an audit of this nature, so we’ve decided to turn our professional website audit into a document that the average website owner can use to evaluate and grade their own website or blog. Make no mistake; being succ... (more)

WordPress Plugins – Be Smart About The Ones You Install

One of the great things about WordPress is the ability it gives us to extend the capabilities of the core software with plugins. The official WordPress Plugin Directory now has nearly 23,000 plugins. That’s an amazing amount of extra features we can add to our websites. However the old adage is still true: with great power comes great responsibility. Unfortunately there’s a lot of junk in those 23,000 plugins. You can bog your site down to a crawl, expose your site to hackers or even worse if you aren’t careful. So here are some things to think about when you are looking for plug... (more)

2012 Was the Year WordPress Grew Up

As I ponder this last year one thing stands out more than anything else. The year of 2012 will be know as the year WordPress grew up. WordPress didn’t just become a big kid, it became a major player in the world of website design. This realization makes me incredibly exited to see what the year of 2013 will bring for the entire WordPress community. If you’re not personally drinking the WordPress kool-aid already, you might be thinking I’m just pushing what I know and sell. Not true. There have been measurable changes within our community and with the way the world views WordPress... (more)

When is Your Small Business Ready for an ERP System?

A common question small business owners ask themselves is when their business is ready to implement an ERP software application that will replace their existing small business software. Fortunately for the small business owner, there are a number of small business ERP software solutions on the market today that serve as a viable replacement for QuickBooks, Peachtree, and other small business accounting software packages. In my experience, there are three telling signs of when a small business is ready to migrate from its existing small business software to a more sophisticated ER... (more)

Current Craze in the Open Source World: Responsive WordPress Themes

Responsive WordPress themes are the current craze in the open source world.  But are they a true requirement or just a bunch of hype thrown out to sell more premium themes to unsuspecting buyers?  Do WordPress users really need to consider upgrading their existing themes to one that is responsive and mobile friendly? At first I was a bit skeptical, but responsive websites have grown on me and it is now a part of daily life for me and my coding team.  I will admit that I considered it hype at first, but once I understood what responsive was all about, I now consider it a requirem... (more)