Morning Coffee Posts
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...
Why Authors Need Newsletters: A Series
In ten years of blogging I have always tried to follow two maxims. The first is a lesson I learned from Penelope Trunk, which is that one of the...
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 for your...
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...
Press, Page, Media, and Pub – Did You Know You Have More Website Domain Options Than Just DotCom?
Do you know how almost everyone uses a website domain ending in DotCom? Have you ever thought about being more adventurous? The usual advice on the...
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, LinkedIn, 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...
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....