Author: Liquid Web

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: AJ Morris; My daughter has been sick recently (she’s doing much better now) so I have been spending a lot of time between doctors appointments and even a trip to the peds ER. Scary as a parent for sure! But while I was there, I did what a lot of people do in these situations: I pulled out my phone to browse social media.We do this “bored browsing” all the time. We pull our phones out while we’re waiting at a stop light, waiting to pick our kid up at school, or waiting in line at ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Nick Campbell; Cryptojacking is fast becoming the favored cash cow of online criminals. Bad actors can generate huge sums by infecting eCommerce stores and content management systems with malicious code that mines cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Monero and Litecoin. WordPress sites and WooCommerce stores are a common victim for cryptojacking attacks, which are often associated with other types of malware, including credit card skimmers.Online criminals are focusing their attention on cryptojacking because it’s easier to manage and more lucrative than other types of malware attacks like ransomware. Cryptojacking attacks rose by 8500% in the last quarter of ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Katie Elenberger; Implementing client retention strategies prepares your business for growth, provides measurable long-term success, and allows you to have a deeper understanding of a brand without being an in-house employee. Importantly, it also provides you and your business with the stability and security to have a steady income. Combine this with attracting new high-quality clients and you can move away from the rollercoaster income so many freelancers and small business owners fear. For years I have built my client list, retaining more clients than losing. It wasn’t until after attending and speaking at a few ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: tterwillegar; Docker is a company that offers container-based development and services that enable you to deploy Docker for local WordPress development.Basically, they offer a free software you can use to leverage containerization in your development process.With Docker, you can build your WordPress sites, web apps, databases, and much more in containers rather than installing the necessary services on your machine directly.The use-case I want to talk about in this post is using Docker for local WordPress development. I’ll walk you through the benefits you can get from using Docker, and the full installation process.At the end ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jennifer Bourn; Introduction? Check. Scope of work? Check. Creative process? Check. Timeline, milestones, and expectations? Check. Payment terms? Check. Signature line? Check. These are all the basics of putting together freelance contracts.Putting together a basic freelance contract for a website project isn’t difficult as long as you’re only ever building small, basic websites for small amounts of money. But when you’re investing many hours into a project, the fees you charge increase, and the stakes become much higher, it becomes more important to have a solid contract in place to protect you and put your clients ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Liquid Web; eCommerce store owners who are new to the industry are faced with a choice that may affect the future of their business: which eCommerce applications or service should they use? Many people will think of using hosted solutions like Shopify or Squarespace. Some might even try marketplaces like Etsy. What they don’t realize is that once their store starts to do well, they will run into issues. These types of solutions work great initially, but at some point as your store becomes successful, you are going to want other features or need to get ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Liquid Web; Google is a major source of eCommerce traffic, both on the desktop and on mobile. eCommerce store owners can’t afford to ignore search engine optimization, but I come across many sites that would fail even the most basic of SEO audits. Smaller eCommerce stores may not have the resources to hire a SEO specialist, but most don’t need to. Implementing some of the WooCommerce SEO best practices doesn’t take deep expertise, and WooCommerce makes it even easier.In this article, I’m going to talk about the low-hanging fruit that every eCommerce store should have in ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jennifer Bourn; When my sister began her high school senior year, I had a brilliant idea. I was going to create a scrapbook of her high school years and give it to her for graduation. So I stealthily gathered, printed, and copied photos from the past three years and her senior year, and took new photos of her and her friends to use in the scrapbook. I invested hours creating content, buying supplies, prepping materials and designing the spreads to create the scrapbook. It was expensive, it was huge, and it took a lot of time ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Liquid Web; In order to make the best decisions about an organization’s Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, it is helpful to have a clear understanding of the function of web servers and server hosting. Many terms related to computers and the Internet are used casually or incorrectly, which can make a technical topic challenging to understand.However, with a functional understanding of how the Internet works, the context to make decisions on subjects such as server hosting becomes much easier.The Basics: What is the Internet and What Does it Physically Connect?The Internet is defined by Merriam-Webster as “an ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; In an earlier article we laid out the only eCommerce KPI metrics glossary you’ll ever need. We’ve also covered twelve key eCommerce KPIs you should care about.And we announced via our press release, a partnership with Glew, so that every customer can leverage their amazing reporting solution when they purchase a Managed WooCommerce Hosting plan.Finding and using 27 eCommerce KPI Metrics in Glew:Glew KPI Metric #1: Mobile Page ViewsClick on Reports and then My Reports, in the left hand navigation column. Click the Create a Report button in the upper right hand corner. Name ... Read More