Do you install WordPress over and over with the same basic WordPress plugins? If so, a cool little tool called WPkgr might be your best friend. WPkgr allows you to select from any WordPress plugins in the repository that you want downloaded and activated during your WordPress install.  After selecting the plugins, you’ll click ‘create [...]

WordPress is not just for blogging. In fact, you can create a website with WordPress that doesn’t even include a blog. WordPress allows you to create pages, change the design with themes, and add features with plugins. Hmmm….that sounds like a website. Once you get WordPress installed instantly on your free domain, you can change [...]

Although you can submit your link to Google using their web form, it’s usually not necessary. Google will find your website if there is a link to it somewhere else on the Web. And it often happens surprisingly fast! Your main concern should be creating quality content and getting links to your page. Google places [...]

My name is Raymond Dean. I live in Springfield, MO, a town best known for…well, I guess the fact that Brad Pitt is from here? I started a little web design company here in the heart of America in 2008. I chose the name Digital Stax for the business simply because I already owned the [...]

Joplin is only about 75 miles from our location. So, this hits really close to home. It’s difficult to know what to do or say when something like this happens. But, if you have any money to spare, there are some organizations that are on the ground right now that could use your help. One [...]

I think you already know the answer to that question. Any legitimate web developer would not use Weebly, Wix, Webs, Yola, or any of these other oddly-named free website builders.  And that should tell you something about the disadvantages to using these services. Loss of Control Since you are tied into some home-brewed website building [...]

The obvious way to increase search engine traffic is to rank higher in Google. But how? A lot of search engine optimization (SEO) “experts” will try to make you think that they have some top-secret techniques or knowledge. But you should be leery of many of these people because they could lead you down the [...]