Why Your WordPress Website Needs A Maintenance Plan! 25 Apr 2024 11:57 AM (last year)
Introduction
Why Your WordPress Website Needs A Maintenance Plan!
Maintaining a WordPress website is crucial for its success and longevity. Without proper care and attention, websites can encounter various issues that may impact performance and user experience. In this blog, we will delve into the importance of having a maintenance plan for your WordPress website and explore the benefits it can bring.
Benefits of having a maintenance plan for your WordPress website
Improved Security:
Security is a top priority for any website owner. Regular maintenance ensures that your WordPress site is up to date with the latest security patches and fixes, reducing the risk of security breaches and unauthorized access.
Enhanced Performance:
A well-maintained website runs smoothly and efficiently, providing visitors with a seamless browsing experience. Regular updates and optimizations can improve loading times and overall performance.
Common issues that can arise without a maintenance plan
Outdated Software:
Without regular updates, your WordPress website may be running on outdated software, leaving it vulnerable to security threats and compatibility issues with newer plugins and themes.
Broken Links and Errors:
Neglected websites are more likely to have broken links, missing images, and other errors that can frustrate visitors and harm your site’s credibility.
Ensure Your Site’s Optimal Performance with Our Maintenance Plans
Maintaining your website is crucial to ensure it continues to function effectively and securely. Neglecting maintenance can lead to security vulnerabilities, slow performance, and a poor user experience. Our comprehensive maintenance plans are designed to keep your website running smoothly without any hassle. By subscribing to our maintenance services, you benefit from regular updates, security checks, and performance optimizations that prevent common issues and enhance your site’s overall reliability. Visit our maintenance page today to secure your website’s future.
Conclusion
In conclusion, having a maintenance plan for your WordPress website is essential for ensuring its security, performance, and longevity. By implementing regular updates, backups, and optimizations, you can keep your site running smoothly and protect it from potential threats. Remember, a well-maintained website is a successful website!
Top 10 Tips for Creating a Professional Logo for Your Business 22 Feb 2023 12:17 PM (2 years ago)
Having a good logo for your business is one of the most important steps in establishing your brand and reaching a wider audience. But, if done incorrectly, a logo can do more harm than good. To help you avoid the most common logo mistakes, here are the top 10 logo mistakes for your business.
1. Not having a professional designer. One of the biggest mistakes you can make with your logo is not hiring a professional designer. A logo should be
designed to represent your business and its values, so it’s important to have an experienced designer create something that will accurately reflect your brand.
2. Not researching your audience. A logo should be tailored to your target audience. Before you begin designing a logo, make sure to research your audience and their preferences to make sure your logo is relevant to them.
3. Not using the right colors. Colors are essential to a logo and can have a big impact on how it is perceived. Make sure to use colors that are appropriate for the message you are trying to send and that will stand out.
4. Not considering the size. Your logo should look good at any size, so make sure to design your logo with both large and small sizes in mind.
5. Not being consistent. Your logo should be used consistently across all of your branding materials. Make sure to use the same colors, fonts, and design elements throughout to ensure a cohesive look.
6. Not testing it out. Before you settle on a logo, test it out on different platforms and formats. This will help you see how it looks on different devices and sizes, and give you a better idea of any changes you may need to make.
7. Not considering scalability. When designing a logo, you should always consider how it will look when it’s scaled up or down. Make sure to keep the design simple enough to look good at any size.
8. Not creating a vector version. Vector logos are ideal for web and print use, as they can be scaled up or down without losing any quality. Make sure to create a vector version of your logo in addition to other formats.
9. Not being timeless. Your logo should be timeless, so make sure to avoid trends and fads that may become outdated quickly.
10. Not getting feedback. Once you’ve designed your logo, make sure to get feedback from people in your target audience. Their opinions can help you improve your logo and make sure it accurately reflects your brand.
Creating a good logo for your business is essential to establishing a strong brand identity. By avoiding these common logo mistakes, you can create a logo that accurately reflects your business and resonates with your audience.
Give Your Business a Facelift: Why You Should Redesign Your Website 17 Feb 2023 1:00 PM (2 years ago)
Has your business been looking a little lackluster lately? A facelift could be just the thing to give your brand a boost! Redesigning your website is an excellent way to give your business the modern, professional look it needs to stay competitive. Read on for more on why you should redesign your website.
Let’s Give that Business a Makeover!
It’s always a good idea to freshen up your look from time to time. This applies to your business as much as it does to your wardrobe. A well-maintained website can be a powerful tool for attracting and retaining customers. A website redesign has the potential to bring you more business, so why not give it a go?
A redesign doesn’t necessarily mean starting from scratch. You can keep the elements of your existing website that you like, while adding some new flair. This could mean new visuals, better organization, or a more modern design. Your website should reflect the personality of your business and give customers a pleasant experience.
Time for a Website Refresh!
A great way to give your website a facelift is to make sure it’s running on the latest technology. Websites can start to look a little outdated if they’re not updated regularly, so it’s a good idea to make sure you’re using the most up-to-date tools and platforms. This not only gives your website a modern look, but also makes sure it’s running smoothly and efficiently.
It can also be a good idea to rethink your content. A website redesign gives you the perfect opportunity to look at the messages you’re sending out to customers. Are you targeting the right audience? Is your content organized in a way that’s easy to understand? Are you delivering the information that your customers need? These are all important questions to consider when it comes to giving your website a refresh.
Redesigning your website can be a great way to give your business a much-needed facelift. Updating your website not only makes it look modern and professional, but also ensures that it’s running efficiently and delivering content that resonates with your customers. So why not give your website the refresh it deserves?
Are you looking to make your website more modern and user-friendly? Let us help you with your website redesign – contact us today!
Snippets: Interactive Map 23 Jan 2020 8:42 AM (5 years ago)
Our customer Pro Fleet hired us to change their “Areas Served” map that shows their customers where they serve. This map had two regions named “Full-Service Area” and “Limited Service Area”. At the time it was built using a design program like Photoshop and was not easy to increase their service areas. Using a static image was not the best scenario and we would have to bill the customer extra time to recreate the image and produce a template that would make it easier to change out in Photoshop. I reached out to Pro Fleet and suggested we build them an interactive map that will be easier to adjust on the fly with less work and time. We discussed this possibility in the past and we were now at the point where the decision made even more sense. We were able to add each state to the full responsive map using their branding color scheme while improving the layout of the page. This small enhancement will allow their customers to see in real-time the areas they serve, as well as provide an easier update path when increasing their service areas. Pro Fleet will also have the opportunity to add more features to this map in the future, since this is not a static image.
Customer Mentioned in Snippets
Evolution 16 Jan 2020 5:47 PM (5 years ago)
Look around you. Everything changes. everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing, and changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant. -Dr. Steve Mataboli It’s time to evolve. WJD Designs has been in the design and development community for quite some time and during that time we have tried to evolve our business in many ways. We always tell our customers to make sure their branding doesn’t become stale and to change things up once in a while, it’s time we do the same. At the beginning of our brand’s introduction, we were focused on providing design across the world. We wanted to make this apparent in our branding and to do this we incorporated Earth into our logo design. The logo started off with a simple idea where we relied on showing off our design effects to our customers via our logo design. While we grew, we noticed that the more we used our logo in promotional places the harder it was to make it work with certain designs. We heard the “Keep it Simple” suggestion and ignored it so we can be a bit more flashy. In time the simple approach made more sense so we evolved the logo to have fewer colors, a more modern design, and better on the eyes no matter what size. We kept the earth logo to keep the consistency of design while simplifying the overall look. This turned out to be the logo you have all seen up until now. We wanted to keep the structure of the old logo and removed the earth component. We are still working with clients across the globe but are starting to focus more on our local customers. We want to remove ourselves from that box and put us in an open space where the logo is flexible and free of definition. This new design can be adaptive in many ways and will look good on everything from embroidery to billboards. We left the past of our flashy effects and moved towards something that can be timeless without looking too minimalistic. We have always had an outer space/sci-fi theme to our branding since the owner Wayne is kind of a geek when it comes to that stuff. We removed the modern font style and went towards a more futuristic font choice to bring back that spacey feel. Getting back to our roots while still progressing the design was a huge goal and we think we nailed it. Thank you to those of you who helped with our focus group, without you it would be much harder to move forward with our next stage of evolution. You’ll be seeing more and more changes in time from WJD Designs. We want to keep learning and progressing while giving our clients the services and relationships they deserve. The stronger we become the stronger our customers become. We have a lot of great things happening behind the scenes and we believe 2020 will be our best year yet! We would love to help you out if you can help us out. We have a referral program for many of our services and are looking for new customers daily. Sure we can spend thousands in marketing and bypass you but then how do you make some extra cash? There are several businesses out there who desperately need websites and we would love to help them out. We know you have a lot of friends and some of them may own businesses that might benefit from our services.
The Evolution
The first thing on our list of changes was our domain. A long time ago we let our original .com domain expire and did not renew until it was too late. We were confident it would not be an issue since we had a pretty unique domain name that more than likely wouldn’t be used by another business. During the time the domain was in limbo a domain squatting registrar picked it up and tried to sell it back to us for a ridiculous amount of money. This is the reason we moved to .net and kept forging ahead. Over time we monitored the price of the domain and noticed a trend in the price dropping little by little. Years later the price had dropped so low it becomes an issue with competition buying it instead of us, so we had to act quickly. Finally, over a long period of time, the .com domain and WJD Designs were back together at last. The .net domain will still work for our email and domain but our primary domain will always be .com. We ask for your patience while we transition our system and services to the new domain.All About the Brand
The Logo
The Wrap Up
Referral Program