Author: Jo Murgel

13 Reasons Why It’s Time for a Website Redesign

Every year, I like to recommend that clients conduct a website audit or have a developer perform one. The landscape of web development ebbs and flows and the internet changes so exponentially every year with upgrades in both physical hardware and coding...

Get Your WordPress Website Ready for the New Year: What to Do Now!

The year’s almost up; the time for family and festivities is upon us. Rather than making a New Year’s resolution to learn to play the guitar or eat your weight in ice cream (you should totally do both of those things), how...

Leaving Homestead: Finding the Best All-Around Local Development Environment

Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about using Laravel Homestead as my local environment. At the time, my only real options were Vagrant or MAMP as an Apple user. Since then, the number of options has increased slightly to include...

Website Design Trends for Media Publishers

Website design trends for media publishers is a continually moving target. In this industry, the life cycle of a website can be much shorter than that of a small business or company, especially in the world of lifestyle blogs. Many of the...

Best Practices for WordPress Website Image Optimization

The most significant consideration for building or maintaining a website these days is speed. Ensuring that your site moves quickly and supports speeds down to mobile 3G is vital in providing the best possible user experience (UX) to the largest percentage of...

Plan a Website Design Your Users Will Love

When approaching a new website design or refresh, there are more aspects of the process that need attention besides design elements like color or type. Planning is required to ensure that your website design elevates your brand and gives the user a...

The Journey to 1.0 — WDS Blocks and WordPress Gutenberg

WordPress made a big leap into the world of modern web development with its announcement of Gutenberg last year—reimagining what WordPress is and can be by providing a new interface for creating content built partially on the React.js platform. Since it will...

WordPress Gutenberg — Arrays, Attributes, and the Fundamental Flaw

Gutenberg is still months away from being rolled into WordPress Core. The code base is being tightened up and more features are being added, but despite active development, one major flaw, in my opinion, still remains with no signs of being resolved....

Effectively Using Images to Tell Your Company’s Story

The trend in web design lately, among other things, is the use of large, high-quality, professionally-produced imagery. This is because images improve the visual appeal of your company’s website and can help effectively tell your company’s story. Uwishunu has done an excellent...