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WordPress countdown timers

All You Need to Know About WordPress Countdown Timers

Time seems to be an omnipotent and omnipresent invisible creature, don’t you think?   Famous psychologist Philip Zimbardo (the brain behind the Stanford prison experiment) says happiness and success are rooted in the way we orient toward the past, present, and future. Time serves as a calibrating factor in our lives and can have an…
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WordPress counters

Curious About How to Build WordPress Counters? Hop on! 

WordPress counters, we’ll dig into the topic right after we settle why they are useful. So, bare with me, will ya?  Thanks 🙂  Decisions, decisions, decisions… We’re making them every day…consciously or not.  Our conscious decision-making process is influenced by: Our own experience The experience of others In marketing, the experience of others is used…
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Getspace Review – Hosting Services

When you build a site, hosting is a mandatory piece of the puzzle. There are a lot of hosting companies to choose from that vary in price and features. This time we‘re doing a review of a company called Getspace. They have big claims on their site: 21x times faster cloud servers. 100% uptime guaranteed.…
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WordPress Branding: Prepare Your Website for Success

The size, scope, and amount of data on the Internet are expanding at a rapid rate with every single second. According to Netcraft’s November 2020 Web Server Survey, more than 1.2 billion websites are functioning on the internet. On WordPress alone, approximately 1200 websites are built daily. With such an impressive number of active websites…
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Q&A with marketing veteran Marcos Bravo: Let’s Talk Branding

As Marty Neumeier (branding consultant in Silicon Valley) puts it: “Your brand isn’t what you say it is. It’s what they say it is.”    Now, what does this mean for you? If you don’t interiorize what you say (aka you’re not delivering on your promises), your clients and employees won’t be fooled. You’ll be…
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WordPress accordions

How to Create State of the Art WordPress Accordions

User control and freedom: this is one of Jakob Nielsen’s 10 general principles for interaction design. Website accordions allow users to achieve just that: choice and freedom.  Accordions are collapsible vertical menus that contain a list of headers that can be clicked to hide or unhide content associated with them.  They give users the choice…
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How to build a WordPress website in 2021

How to Build a WordPress Website in 2021 in 6 steps. An A to Z Guide

Back in 2017, there was an opportunity at the company I was working in to learn web design. I began learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I pretty much enjoyed it. Until I ran into my first bugs. Later on, I was assigned a side project: an actual website. I was thrilled, my colleagues were there…
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It’s on! Black Friday 2020

Ladies and gents, Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2020 deals in the house!   Top-notch WordPress themes, hosting plans, and plugins await.   Let’s check them out!   WordPress themes’ offers   ColibriWP PRO Period: Nov 23rd – Dec 3rd  Discounts: up to 50%, depending on the plan   Listed in the top 20 most…
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How to make a portfolio in WordPress

How to Make a Portfolio in WordPress (UPDATED 2021)

Whether you are a photographer, designer, freelance developer, a creative portfolio website is a must.  Even if platforms like Behance and Dribbble have emerged recently and are used to show off designers’ portfolios, you still need a website. Because your work doesn’t fit in a box. You need something to match your personality, and to…
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WordPress tabs

How to Create Smart and Beautiful WordPress Tabs

Fun fact: did you notice that even wordpress.org uses WordPress tabs to chunk information? Check this out: Source: wordpress.org WordPress tabs are a type of navigation that can improve the customer experience. How so? By not cluttering a lot of info into paragraphs, but using a better organizing method. Tabbed navigation is similar to files…
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How to Kickstart Your Wordpress Website with No Coding Skills

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