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The True Cost of Custom WordPress Plugin Development
Honestly, it depends. Not the answer you were looking for. That’s the most frustrating answer you can possibly get, isn’t it? It seems evasive, doesn’t give you a straightforward number, and you’re still stuck without any clarity. Here’s an honest answer, because anyone who knows what they are doing, having doing it before, will say…….because it’s […]
MemberPress vs LearnDash vs Woocommerce Memberships vs Memberium
Which should you use? LearnDash, MemberPress, Woocommerce Memberships and Memberium, all offer solutions to create, sell, and manage online courses. However, each of the platforms have unique features and benefits that cater to different goals. What Is LearnDash? LearnDash is a popular learning management system that lead the way in the early 2010’s. Used by […]
CDN : Content Distribution Network. The Need For Speed. Is It Right For You?
Everybody wants it…speed, quick, fast, instant now. Wait more than 2 seconds and any marketer will tell you, your bounce rate will go up and you will lose business. Your site will be graded into a A, B, C, D or even F category. Your ranking diminished. If you are curious how your site would […]
FACEBOOK DISTRIBUTION SCORE: KEY TO SOCIAL MEDIA SUCCESS
As of July 2021, Facebook, the leader of all social media platforms, according to Statista.com. To be a successful the social media space, is all about posting the right information, the right photo, the right message is an indicator of your performance. Usually this is done by a professional, who has learned the technology of […]
2021 Update: Website Load Speed Report
WHY IS LOAD SPEED IMPORTANT Your website is undergoing a metamorphosis without you even knowing it. Speed has become king, even over content. Here are some basic facts that can effect your sites performance in 2021. PERFORMANCE POINTS 53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if pages take longer than 3 seconds to load. A […]
What Exactly is Bot Traffic?
Bot traffic is defined as any machine driven, non-human traffic that connects to your website or app. Often “bots” are associated with all things negative, as they tend to be irritating due to their irrelevance in terms of user engagement. However, bots aren’t necessarily good or bad. It all depends on their purpose. Some bots are designed […]
What Is A Website Bounce Rate?
A site’s bounce rate is a key piece of information it tells you how well people are or not engaging with a webpage’s content or user experience. A major league tool, that most of the internet websites use to determine bounce rates is called Google Analytics . The frustrating part about these raw numbers is […]
The Big Hit : Web Designer & Web Developer Fees
The web..the fastest growing way of doing business. By Brick and mortar standards, is incredibly less expensive and normalizes the difference between small and large companies. But it is not without it’s costs. The exchange for a building is technology. Technology that can be powerful and yet dangerous in the wrong hands. Many young startup […]
Custom-Built Site vs. WordPress + Theme: Which is Better?
For everyone who decides to start their own website or completely revamp the old one, there’s one question that poses the most pressing concern: Should I do custom design or go with WordPress and select a theme? The main difference between the two is that with a custom site you’ll have to literally build from scratch, […]
Pew Research Center : Social Media Use in 2021
Reprinted from Pew Research Center: Social Media Use in 2021BY BROOKE AUXIER AND MONICA ANDERSON Social Media Use in 2021 A majority of Americans say they use YouTube and Facebook, while use of Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok is especially common among adults under 30. Despite a string of controversies and the public’s relatively negative sentiments about aspects of social media, roughly seven-in-ten […]
WordPress vs. Joomla vs. Drupal
How to Choose the Right CMS Platform If you’re thinking about building a website or blog, building a site from scratch with developers, is the most expensive way you can possibly choose. Instead, business are resorting to a CMS. A CMS , “content management system”, helps you create, manage, and modify the contents of a […]
DNS : Keys to Email Delivery
DNS stands for Domain Name System and is a protocol for exchanging data on the Internet. When you want to visit a website, you turn on the computer, open a web browser, and type in the domain name you want to visit, e.g. mmd-ca.com. The DNS then translates the name into an IP address. An IP address […]
WHY USE WORDPRESS?
For average business owners, names like WordPress, Joomla, Shopify, Magento, Wix, and Weebly might sound like alien names. You don’t know about them and honestly, you just don’t care, you just want a website that works. But developers are going to toss about a variety of options at you, each with their own price points, strengths and weakness…that you do care […]
WORDPRESS THEMES: WHAT IT SHOULD AND SHOULDN’T DO
WordPress is a powerful CMS (Content Management System) whose popularity is only increasing. Multimedia Designs, uses it for many of our client’s websites that we develop. We love it for its flexibility, robust features and that many clients can add blogs, photos, videos and other content themselves. That is worth a lot to a small […]
Functions.php : Heart of WordPress Theme Development
Functions.php is the “brain” of a WordPress theme and the interface between how WordPress uses the theme to present a page to the viewer. It is a power and yet dangerous tool in that the PHP functions there control how things display using local definitions, rather than the site’s underlying data. What functions.php Is In […]