How Do I Increase My Website’s Speed?

Website speed

By now, you can guess that the speed of your website is pretty important, but just a quick recap or lesson for those who don’t know. Viewers of your website get pretty impatient, pretty fast. They want your website to load quickly and if they have to wait more than a few seconds will actually…

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Creating a Simpler Checkout Page in WooCommerce

Woocommerce simple checkout

When building Starfish Reviews plugin, we initially started with a WooCommerce-based solution for selling and licensing the plugin. I really didn’t like WooCommerce’s over-complicated checkout page. I wanted something simpler and more straightforward. So here’s how I got from complicated, to simple with some nice icons to help visually. While I did it with the…

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Image Size: Why it Matters

Why image size on a website is important

Have you ever had your web designer ask for a larger image or an image with higher resolution? Did it leave you confused and wondering what exactly the designer was talking about? Or have you had a designer tell you that they cannot use an image and you think they were being stubborn about the…

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How to Style Give WP’s Email Access Token Fields and Buttons

How to style give wps email access token fields and buttons

The Give WordPress plugin by WordImpress is a great plugin for taking donations. However, I noticed a problem: for whatever reason they failed to style the email field and submit button that are shown for users to retrieve their donation information via a link sent to their email (no WP account required). It’s kinda strange, because…

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We Moved to Flywheel Hosting! …And Why We Did It

Fiddler online flywheel wordpress hosting

Here at wpXPRESS, hosting is an essential part of our business. We can’t provide “hassle-free” websites unless we have great hosting to keep those sites online and running at their optimum. So we take hosting very seriously. I personally know a ton about hosting, because I’ve used a lot of different hosts and server setups…

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Where to Start an Online Business

Does my business need a blog

Hello, this is Kurt Francom with wpXPRESS and this is one of the hundreds of videos where I answer the most commonly asked questions related to small business web design. Today’s question is “I have a great online business idea, where do I get started?” This is a question I get all the time and…

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Why should I use Facebook Live for my small business?

Why should i use facebook live

Hello this is Kurt Francom with wpXPRESS (formerly Fiddler Online) and this is one of hundreds of videos where I answer the most commonly asked questions related to small business web design. Today’s question is “Why should a small business owner use Facebook Live?” For those of you that don’t know, Facebook Live is a…

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