Earlier today I got a question over on The Digital Reader’s Facebook page that I thought deserved to be answered in a blog post. I had posted a warning...
Category: Tips and Tricks
How to Resize/Fix the Image Files on Your Author Website
So I was reading a post over on the Bookworks blog where Carla King explains how to correctly size images before uploading to your site, but I have a...
How to Create a Live Backup of Your Working Files Using Google Drive
My server getting hacked a couple months ago made me deeply appreciative of regularly scheduled backups (sometimes the best solution to a situation is to delete whatever is causing...
If You’re Leasing a Server for Your Website(s), You’re Probably Paying Too Much
I’ve just found a new service that I can add to my a la carte service offerings: For $25, I will tell you whether you are paying too much...
How to Find Free (and Legal) Images Online
A few weeks back I discovered another nugget of useful info that I picked up while blogging and just assumed everyone knew, and today I would like to share...
Six Things I Learned When My Websites Got Hacked
Here’s a post where I learn a little humility, and everyone else gets to see that “it really can happen to anyone” isn’t just something we say to be...
How to Clear the Facebook and Twitter share caches after you’ve updated a page or post
I’m sure we’ve all been in this position: We’ve updated the title, featured image, or intro for a post we wrote a while back, and then go on Twitter...
Gutenberg is the best thing to happen to WordPress.com since EVER
Much has been written about Gutenberg, the next major evolution of WordPress. (I’ve written a few posts myself, explaining what it is, how this is a pivotal moment for...
Five Secrets to a Fiendishly Effective Landing Page
Whether you are getting someone to sign up for your mailing list or trying to recruit a new client, landing pages are a critically important tool. This is where...
Nate’s Grand Unified Theory of HomePage Design (1.0)
If there is one thing I have learned in my years of building websites, it’s that laying out a website’s homepage is the single most difficult part of designing...
Six Drop Dead Simple Ways You Can Market Your Services in 15 Minutes or less
One of the first – and possibly the most important – lesson to learn about marketing is that it’s not something you do just once when building a business....
Should I hire writers on Fiverr?
Please tell me you’re joking, that you don’t really plan to spend so little on content. While you might get a few good articles, paying $5 for subpar content...