When I retired, I knew that I would have to supplement my retirement income with some part-time work.  At first I considered consulting, as I had spent 35 years in my profession, but soon learned that marketing myself was a lot harder than first envisioned.  And so I turned to freelance writing – what could be better?  I loved to write, had taught writing, and the world of social media, directories, blogs, etc. was growing exponentially!  Without the advice of those who had gone before me, however, I had to pass through several “rings of fire” on my own.  I write this post so that others will have the benefit of my experiences and avoid the common pitfalls of freelancing. Read the full story…

Magento has always been THE most sought-after platform for the webmasters contemplating on starting an Ecommecerce website. The ease of website development, the savorous features, the user-friendliness – everything leaps with Magento. But now, there is a new player in town: WooCommerce. And it is giving Magento a serious run for its money.

WooCommerce has had a meteoric rise in the web development community. And it is surely fuelled by some very authentic reasons. This highly powerful Ecommerce platform is being increasingly sought-after and there is no dearth of webmasters who are preferring it over Magento. Read the full story…

Creating a website is one of the most imperative things that online marketing and web designing companies usually do as it speaks a lot about their goals and values they want to put forth in front of their users. No matter how small or massive is the size of your website, it is crucial to have an efficient and functional website to serve your audiences better. Since, internet users know that they are free to navigate from any of the websites, it has become important for the designers take a leap from the unconventional layout designs to a layout that’s not only user-centric but harness positive feelings about the website on the visitors mind.

A well-designed and structured layout truly enhances the appeal and look of your website and this improves the user experience. Online businesses often experience low traffic inspite of implementing good SEO tools. They complain that visitors don’t hang on their website. This might be because they don’t have an interactive and lively layout. So, if you are also experiencing the same situation, then it’s to brace yourself, as you competitor can beat you with just a few clicks Read the full story…

WordPress plugins unquestionably serve a genuine purpose of helping webmasters extend their website’s functionality above and beyond the defaults. However, they also make the website vulnerable to certain issues, and website security rings the loudest among them.

Below, we bring forth three such immensely popular plugins that have been found to be more susceptible to intrusion attacks and need to be dealt with at the earliest: Read the full story…

Content management systems are called upon to serve increasingly diverse functions for website administrators, who lean on platforms like WordPress to do much more than post blog entries.  And with the competitive offerings put forth by a few noted CMS providers, there is no reason for anyone – even technically challenged bloggers – to put-up with inferior service and functionality.

WordPress furnishes the most popular platform for webmasters, eclipsing other options like Joomla and Drupal. And the trend is likely to continue through 2014, as the powerful platform continues to fulfill the needs of diverse users. The accessible platform draws bloggers and Web administrators for a number of reasons, including these traits making WordPress the best available CMS: Read the full story…

Today we shall talk about adding a new column to your WordPress’s User Listing table in the back end. WordPress by default has “Gravatar”, “username”, “Name”, “Email”, “Role” and “Posts” listed in the users table. But what if we have to add new custom column to the list? Say you run a membership website, and want to show when the account of that particular user expires. Or may be you want to show some other info about the user in the newly added column. This can be attained by using adding a “manage_users_columns” filter in your theme’s functions.php or your plugin’s file. Here is a sample code, which should be pretty self explanatory. Read the full story…