Featured Project
Barrington Area Digital Photo Gallery
A visually gorgeous website, dripping with mouth-watering nature photo from the Barrington Illinois area. The website introduces visitors to the Barrington Area Digital Photo Gallery (BADPG) with offerings of just lovely nature photos. The visitors are then invited to view the gallery itself and savor nature in all its forms: winter, summer, landscapes, and delightful birds, wildlife and insects. Visit
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Barrington Area Volunteer Connection – New Website
The website is designed to attract volunteers and nonprofits alike; using a third party software to match needs and talents. It is a brochure site, built with WordPress for easy updating by Barrington Area Volunteer Connection (BAVC) administrators. It is
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Bravo Waukegan Music Library My latest project! Something very different from my usual website design and construction. In addition to doing some re-formatting of pages, I built a custom Music Library that displays music performances and artists based on menu
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I am so excited to present my latest featured project: A Long Swim website. Not only do I absolutely love this website, this is the 3rd website I have had the honor to build for Douglas and
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5 things to help improve your WordPress website SEO
1. Make Sure Your Website is Visible to Search Engines You will want to make sure that your website is visible to search engines like Google and Bing. WordPress has a built-in option to prevent search engines from crawling your
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3 quick website optimization tips
Spend about an hour a week working on these few SEO tasks so your website can be better optimized and gain more visitors. 1. Update your website content regularly Google and other search engines love fresh, relevant content. Write about
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Tune up your WordPress Website – July Maintenance
Time to tune up your website WordPress.org Codex (the WordPress.org online manual) recommends regular site maintenance and has come up with a monthly schedule of tasks you should perform to keep your site running smoothly. They have created a monthly Site
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Window users attacked by ransomware virus
Wordfence, the company that created one of the best security plugins for WordPress websites, has issued a PSA (Public Service Announcement) about a new strain of ransomware that that is spreading across the internet. Ransomware is a kind of malicious
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Have your WordPress Plugins been abandoned?
The consequences of plugins that do not get updated by their authors WordPress was conceived as an open source platform. That means that you can download and install the application for free. Complementing this is the work done by plugin
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What I learned at Chicago Wordcamp 2017
Wordcamp Chicago – talking everything about WordPress This weekend I attended the Wordcamp conference in Chicago. Two rainy, windy days with traffic backed up on the highways and a lot of attendees who forgot their umbrellas! The annual conference was, as
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Email Tips for Small Businesses
Email marketing is a great way to reach out to your customers and potential customers. Use emails to market events, sales, services, new products, and more. Use it to keep in touch with your base with helpful hints and suggestions. With email marketing, you can direct your customers to your website for registrations, purchases, or just to furnish information about
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