Tips and tricks for your WordPress website. Please comment with your own tips!
The world of web design has become increasingly diverse. WordPress themes and plugins allow websites to change their layout and format with incredible ease compared to the web technologies of the past. The wide array of formatting options can be confusing when creating a new site, and often brings up several questions: What should my … Read more
There is no better way to promote your products or services to potential customers than with engaging video content. Conversely, there is no better way to frustrate and send that potential customer elsewhere than to present them with a broken or buffering video, or simply a very slow loading website due to video content. So … Read more
In April of 2015, Google made a huge decision to boost rankings for mobile friendly web sites. This meant that web designers and developers everywhere had even more pressure to adopt mobile friendly design practices, so that their web site deployments would meet this requirement and thus improve their clients’ web presence. Watermelon Web Works … Read more
Images are indispensable rich media for a website, no matter the content: news, eCommerce, blogging, social networking, etc. Unfortunately, today’s standards of site speed and search engine ranking prioritize load times alongside quality content. And if you have to compete with another content provider, but your site load speed is abysmal, search engines will punish … Read more
Related Resource: Magento Speed & Performance Magento is one of the most powerful and robust eCommerce platforms available. It provides solutions for any product you can imagine, from highly complex product bundles, to digital download products and online training and event ticket sales. Any product under the sun can be configured and sold through Magento. … Read more
WordPress is the most powerful and flexible content management system available, but to be sure you are reaching your target audience, it is also important that you have an active social media campaign where you present your content. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+, and Instagram are powerhouses when it comes to building your … Read more
A contact form is an important part of any site for allowing users to submit questions and feedback to site owners. For WordPress sites, creating contact forms is simple with the Contact Form 7 plugin. Contact Form 7 is the most widely used and best supported plugin for creating contact forms in WordPress, and it’s … Read more
MailChimp, one of the most popular and reliable email service providers, offers versatility and a wide range of useful features while still being fun and easy to use. Often, our clients here at Watermelon Web Works want to increase their market reach along with maintaining a consistent web presence. With MailChimp, it is easy to not … Read more
Google is often the ‘bar’ set for how well a website is doing. Top search results for a given search term are highly valued and sought after by website owners. Higher visibility means greater search traffic to your website, and in turn, more conversions and sales (if you are an ecommerce vendor.) And while most … Read more
One of the great features of WordPress is that the content (data) and presentation (look and feel) are separated, making it relatively easy to change the ‘skin’ of your website without making any changes to the content you already have in place. While all of the content for your site is stored in the WordPress … Read more