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The Sites podcast is back! And with a brand new name, plus a new format and schedule. Jerod Morris discusses what all the changes mean, and then dives right into our first topic of 2018 — how to define your ideal audience. http://rainmaker.fm/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/site-success-31-1.mp3 Click to subscribe to Sites on Apple Podcasts Here is a quick rundown of what you’ll find in this episode: What you get when you sign up for a StudioPress Site Jerod explains why we changed the … [Read more...] about [31] 3Q to Help You Define Your Ideal Audience

Do you run a wellness, food/recipe, fitness, or lifestyle website? Start the new year with a fresh, powerful, easy to use theme from Mike Hemberger and his team at BizBudding. The Mai Lifestyle Pro WordPress theme enables you to build a beautiful, image-rich lifestyle blog or website, and fast. BizBudding introduced Mai Lifestyle Pro several months ago. Since then, the Mai Lifestyle Pro theme has gone on to power many popular sites, receiving millions of page views a month. We’re excited … [Read more...] about Mai Lifestyle Pro: The Perfect Theme for Wellness, Food/Recipe, Fitness and Lifestyle Sites

Welcome to another edition of Sites Weekly. In this week’s edition, you will find links to articles about the following: Content. How to Optimize Your SEO Strategy for Voice Searches Design. How to Make Your Website Reader-Friendly Technology. 9 Antidotes to the Facebook Algorithm Squeeze Strategy. Seven Types of Product You Could Sell From Your Blog Bonus. Why Digital Sharecropping Is the Most Dangerous Threat to Your Content Marketing Strategy But first … Last week on Sites There … [Read more...] about Sites Weekly: How to Survive Facebook’s Algorithm Change

Welcome to another edition of Sites Weekly. In this week’s edition, you will find links to articles about the following: Content. Slow Blogging. Is It Another Fad? Design. 10 ways to avoid cross-browser compatibility issues Technology. ICYMI — Google Issued a Duplicate Content Warning Strategy. MailChimp to ConvertKit: Why Brian Gardner Made the Switch Bonus. How to Improve Your Confidence and Conquer the World (or at Least Your To-Do List) Here we go … Content: Slow … [Read more...] about Sites Weekly: ICYMI — Google Issued a Duplicate Content Warning

Welcome to another edition of Sites Weekly — the first of 2018! I hope you had a wonderful holiday and New Year’s celebration … and now it’s time to get back to work. Look for a nugget or two in one of these articles to kick-start your 2018. In this week’s edition, you will find links to articles about the following: Content. Aeration instead of perfection Design. The 5 biggest typography trends of 2017 Technology. We’re already seeing the fallout from Apple’s war … [Read more...] about Sites Weekly: The Benefits of Valuing Aeration Over Perfection in 2018

Welcome to another edition of Sites Weekly. In this week’s edition, you will find links to articles about the following: Content. How can YOU produce more creative work? Design. Learn some easy ways to create cinemagraphs Technology. Get ready for the continued advancement of AI Strategy. Are you making the most of Google’s related searches? Bonus. What sites does the Copyblogger team read regularly? But first … Last week on Sites Nathan Rice, the creator of the Genesis … [Read more...] about Sites Weekly: How Can YOU Produce More Creative Work?

With major changes coming to WordPress core in 2018, web designers will have a new set of challenges. Are you ready for them? With the coming introduction of Gutenberg in 2018, WordPress designers and developers will be presented with new functionality that has direct impact on their effort. To help you plan for 2018, we discuss a number of changes that StudioPress will be introducing for themes. We also touch base on a few of the key performance enhancements you should be thinking about, … [Read more...] about [30] WordPress Design Trends for 2018

Welcome to another edition of Sites Weekly. In this week’s edition, you will find links to articles about the following: Content. Should you do more documenting, and less creating? Design. The right way to think about animations on your website Technology. Get a head start on your SEO improvements for 2018 Strategy. Working from home isn’t as easy as it may seem But first … Last week on Sites Are you having technical issues with your WordPress site? Then this podcast episode … [Read more...] about Sites Weekly: How to Overcome the Challenges of Working from Home

Nathan Rice, the creator of the Genesis Framework, shares his insights on maximizing the power of Genesis for WordPress. In 2009, Nathan Rice, along with Brian Gardner, released the Genesis Framework for WordPress — fundamentally altering the way themes are designed and implemented on WordPress. The Genesis Framework continues to evolve and in this episode, we discuss the history of Genesis, what issues to avoid when designing a new WordPress theme and where Genesis is going in 2018. In … [Read more...] about [29] What Every #GenesisWP Developer Must Know about the Genesis Framework

Welcome to another edition of Sites Weekly. This week, we have a special treat: all Copyblogger articles! I’ve built up a stash of articles from the Copyblogger blog that I haven’t been able to fit in to an issue of Sites Weekly yet. So I decided to put them all in one. In this week’s edition, you will find links to articles about the following: Content. Essential editing advice from a master Design. Expert tips for creating an effective visual brand Technology. Have you … [Read more...] about Sites Weekly: 5 Must-Read Articles from the Copyblogger Blog