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The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 30th May 2022.

So, we\'ve made it to series three of the WordPress Business Bootcamp and this is perhaps a little more where the rubber meets the road. Now we\'re going to be thinking about the tools that we use to build a website and keep it going for the client. We\'re split the \'tools\' topic up into two episodes. This weeks it\'s all about WordPress and next week it\'s all the other things that you need whi...

The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 31st May 2022.

So you\'ve tried Gutenberg, and you might like to or you might not! But one thing that you cannot really argue about is that it\'s got some room for improvement. During the last few release cycles there\'s been more and more talk about block patterns and how they\'re going to make WordPress website building more straightforward. Block patterns are a collection of blocks that have been built and sa...

Another episode of the WordPress Business Bootcamp where we try to go right back to the start and unpick the process of building sites for clients. Today we\'re on to the tricky subject of \'Design Aesthetics\'! Aesthetics affect a brand\'s credibility and perception. The look and feel is probably the thing that first hit us first and is most important to our clients. But the problem is that aesth...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 9th May 2022.

So there\'s loads of WordPress tools out there that will help you create your WordPress websites. Chances are that you\'ve tried out a few and have some favourite which you use most of the time. New tools are coming out all of the time and this episode is about one of those new tools... Builderius. I can already here you starting to sigh. You\'re thinking that there\'s no need for another tool, th...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 2nd May 2022.

So today we\'re talking about UI and UX, user interface and user experience, and it\'s a really huge topic. We start off by what these crucial concepts are and how they differ and then we get into the weeds of how they can be broken down into more manageable components, so that both our clients and ourselves can understand them better. What makes for \'good\' UI and UX? How can we test for all of...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 25th April 2022.

So online courses are all the rage. We know that. Especially since Covid struck, people have been looking for ways to create extra revenue from the knowledge that they have, and well, courses are a good way to do that. Wishlist Member has been around for years, in fact I think that it\'s right up there with a few others as one of the oldest membership site solutions for WordPress. We talk about th...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing 18th April 2022.

Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design business from start to finish. We are on Season 2  where we are looking at The Design Process. Today we are discussing  \"Creating a brand\". With so much to take in, we needed to split the subject up into seven, easy to understand, sections. So take a list...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 11th April 2022.

When I drive my car, I\'m highly aware of the impact that my driving is having. I can hear the engine rumble, I can smell the gases that are coming from the exhaust. I know for a fact that this is not good for the environment. I\'m burning energy and it\'s causing pollution. When I\'m browsing the internet, this is the environmental impact that I\'m feeling... nothing. Literally zero. I almost nev...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 4th April 2022.

On the podcast today we continue our WordPress Business Bootcamp series. Now we\'re trying to figure out \"How do we get our website copy?\". It\'s a thorny issue and I\'m pretty certain that this problem has held up one or other of your website builds in the past. Who should create the content that goes on the site? Should it be you, a professional copywriter, an SEO expert or perhaps we leave th...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 28th March 2022

On the podcast today we have JR Farr and Gilbert Pellegrom from a new platform called Lemon Squeezy. Lemon Squeezy is a SaaS based platform with a WordPress integration. Which enables you to sell digital products online? So things like PDFs, eBooks, software licensing... anything you can think of really. If it\'s possible to package it up and sell it directly on your website, Lemon Squeezy is here...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 21st March 2022.

Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design business from start to finish. We\'re on series 2, episode 2. \"How do we structure our clients\' websites?\" We\'re trying to figure out which parts of a website does our client really need from the outset. There\'s hundreds of things that we can do, but a...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 14th March 2022

So your WordPress website is up and running. You\'re growing. The website is getting noticed. Wonderful. You add in some products as well, and it keeps growing. Even more wonderful. Then you hit a wall. The language barrier. Your site has reached the natural boundaries of who can access the content on your site because it\'s only in your native language. This is fine, if that\'s the only audience...

This week\'s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 7th March 2022

Welcome to another in the Business Bootcamp series where we relearn everything we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design business from start to finish. We\'re on Season 2, Episode 1, and it\'s all about what the whole web design / build process might look like. As is so often the case we\'re wearing many, many hats in the work that we do, and that\'s really what this episodes...