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WordPress Updates and Backup Services
Coffee Web Design offers WordPress maintenance services for keeping your site up to date. Updating WP, plugins, and themes. Back up services for WP.
GDPR – Are you in compliance?
By now you should be updated in your WordPress version and all your plugins. In the newest update of WordPress you will see some of the available tools to help you in GDPR compliance. You need a privacy policy on your web site. To help understand in a nutshell what...
List your business on Google
So you have your business web site now and need to list your business on Google. To boost your search engine recognition, the best practices are: Web site completed (we deal with WordPress web sites) Check settings for search engine crawling site maps (if you do not...
Special 2020 Business Web Site
If you are starting a business in 2020 or thinking about finally getting a web site for your existing business, then this is a sweet deal we are offering right out of the gates in the new year! Get a WordPress site started for just $299! We just want to get you...
Green Hosting – Environmental Friendly & Fast
Coffee Web Design is proud to be an affiliate of Green Geeks Hosting. More and more people are seeking out environmental hosting for their web sites. For Wordpress users, this is also an option for green hosting. GreenGeeks offers WEB HOSTING PLATFORM THAT'S FASTER,...
Divi 4.0 Release and New changes to Divi
With each one of our sites, we design we use the Divi Builder from Elegant Themes. Recently they have released version 4.0 that is a huge change from the way we design things in Divi. Don't worry because the way you edit things still remains the same. The new version...
Divi Security Patch
Divi security patch - Update your sites that use Divi or the Divi Builder! This major security patch for Divi is crucial. The developers of Divi announced on Jan 17th that All WordPress sites using Divi or the Divi builder must update their plugin or theme. It is...
Web Design for Color Blindness
When developing a site design, we at Coffee Web Design take into account people who have color blindness and make recommendations on site designs and colors keeping this in mind. We have to remember that people have different optical views when viewing their computer...
51 Amazing Facts You Probably Don’t Know About WordPress
Throughout the years, WordPress has evolved from a simple blogging platform into a versatile content management system. Today, this open source software tool enables you to create anything between a simple blog and a fully functional website. The popularity...
7 Steps to Secure Your New WordPress Installation
If you are a WordPress designer or developer who installs WordPress many times, and you are still installing WordPress automatically (e.g. using SimpleScripts or Softaculous in your cPanel), you should read this article. I will explain how to install WordPress the...
How to generate code for your MailChimp newsletter account
Many people are using MailChimp® as their preference of newsletter tools for sharing content with their audience. MailChimp® not only has a friendly user interface but it also has the ability to manage and generate code to put on your website so that others can...
Understanding Copyrights, Trademarks, & Patents (And How They Affect Your WordPress Business)
Copyrights, trademarks, and patents are somewhat complex topics. However, they each can have an effect on the way you run your WordPress site, which makes understanding their basics important. The good news is you don’t need to hit the law books to figure out how each...
How to add a link in WordPress
When adding a new link in your Wordpress pages or posts, there are a couple of different ways to do this and two things to consider. Rule of thumb on creating a link in Wordpress Is the link Internal? Do you want a link going to another page or post that you...
Some Great Reasons Why You Need a Website
Before you shove the idea from your head of why you don't need a website, there are many reason why you DO need one. Over the yeas we have had clients who do not even have an email address. They still do business with having a web site. Have you noticed over the...
Is your home router hacked? How to check and what to do.
Tuesday morning Wordfence published a post showing how thousands of attacks we see on WordPress sites come from hacked home routers. In the past month alone we have seen over 57,000 unique home routers being used to attack WordPress sites. Those home networks are now...
Difference between Facebook Pages and Groups?
Simple explanation of the difference in Facebook "pages" or "group" to help you decide what is best for your business. So you have your web site and you now are setting up your social media pages to help in marketing. You can't decide which to set up on Facebook, a...
Creating a Facebook Page for Business
Simple step by step instructions and features to set up a Facebook™ business page for your business, entertainment or services. This will get you started and show you tools available that you can use for a Facebook™ page for business. Creating a Facebook...
How to Use Google Photos
Google Photos is probably one of the most useful photo resources you can use. Mainly for its powerful automatic backup feature. Since you probably already have a Google account, getting set up will be easy. Sometimes we have events or family outings where we have a...
2017 The Year of Encryption Everywhere using a SSL – Time to get ready!
2017 is going to be probably the most secure year for website owners because Google released updates to force people to get site SSL ready. In the coming year, Google’s browser (Chrome 56) will begin to show warning message as “Not Secure” to all HTTP sites to make...
Why we use Divi by Elegant Themes
Thats right...we went all Divi! Some of us at Coffee web design have been in the web business for 15 years or more, doing web design. Our favorite theme to use and convert sites to is the Divi theme by Elegant Themes and we will get to why in a minute. Our designer...