Posts by Brad Williams
4 Reasons Why You Should Not Use Website Builders
Over the past few years, website builders have become a popular way to build small business websites. When you watch their advertisements on television or YouTube, they look pretty easy to use. On the surface, they sound like a great option. You pay a relatively small monthly fee, pick a template, create some pages, and you’ve…
Read MoreFacebook Is Changing—Why Now More Than Ever You Need a Website
If you’re starting a brand new business, or even if you have an established small business and you’re looking to attract more customers (who isn’t, right?), one of the first things people will tell you is that you need to be on social media. While they aren’t wrong, they may not have given you all…
Read MoreWhy You Should Attend Small Business WordPress Meetups and Conferences
If you use WordPress for your small business website, I want to tell you about two amazing resources that are available near you and you may not even know they exist. I’m talking about WordPress Meetups and conferences (called WordCamp). Often when I suggest to small business owners that they attend a local WordPress Meetup,…
Read MoreeWebscapes Relaunch: Building Small Business Websites
In an effort to support a much-underserved segment of business and commerce, WebDevStudios (WDS) has launched a new division dedicated to designing and developing small business websites using WordPress. Meet eWebscapes. You may have heard of us before. I started eWebscapes in 2002 when I decided to go into business for myself as a freelance web designer.…
Read MoreWordCamp Salt Lake City 2017 – Retrospective
Our parent company, WebDevStudios, sent several team members to Salt Lake City to attend the local WordCamp. Salt Lake City has a vibrant and active WordPress development community and hosted their biggest WordCamp event in its history with 250 attendees. Here is a quick rundown of our team members who were present and accounted for:…
Read MoreWordPress For Dummies, 8th Edition
Lisa Sabin-Wilson, our Chief Operating Officer, has been authoring the WordPress For Dummies books since 2007. Recently, the latest edition in that series has been released for an official 8th Edition of the book! The book is updated for the latest updates to the WordPress platform. Updated to capture all the changes expected to come…
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