Owning a website comes with several legal responsibilities. And if you don’t know the laws, it can cost you thousands of dollars or even bankrupt your business. Here are some of the common ones for websites in the US. How laws in other locations can apply to you One common
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Accessible fonts: How to select the best fonts
Website accessibility is becoming and bigger and bigger topic on the internet, and for good reason.
Having your website accessible to everyone, regardless of their abilities, is just good business. But, website accessibility can also feel like attempting to slay a 12-headed hydra monster while wielding a penknife.
So, in this article, we are going to tackle one head of the hydra monster, and we’re going to give you a simple formula for doing it. Selecting your accessible fonts.
Email Types & How to Actually Get Your Email Delivered
Maybe it’s happened to you, one day your email is working fine and the next it’s not. You didn’t do anything, so how did your website suddenly go from reliably sending email to not. I’m regularly asked this question. Trust me, I’d love to wave a magic wand and get
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How to Easily Setup G Suite in 20 min
If you haven’t setup 3rd party email before, it can be a bit intimidating setting up G Suite the first time. I’m going to walk you through the info you need to gather in advance and then the setup process.
How to Select a Business Email Provider
You’ve selected and purchased a domain for your business, now it’s time to decide how your email will be powered. If you go out and search for “email provider” you’ll see tons of possibilities out there, but honestly very few of them are relevant to your business.
WordPress vs Squarespace: Is Open or Closed Source Better for You?
There are a lot of WordPress vs Squarespace articles out there, but they strongly leaning towards one or the other. While I am a WordPress developer and love WordPress, it’s not right for everyone. And I’d rather not take on a client than have a client have a bad match
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New GDPR law and what it means for website owners
The European Union has a new privacy law, the GDPR, which goes into effect in May 2018, and unlike previous laws, these are extra-territorial. That means the new privacy law applies to countries outside of the EU. We’ve put together a breakdown of what it means for you as a
How to Securely Send Logins, Passwords & Files
We all know that we shouldn’t just send our logins, passwords and sensitive or large files in regular email. But while we know we shouldn’t, most people don’t know how to send these types of things safely & securely.
What are registrars, hosts, nameservers, and DNS records?
This is a question that I get asked about all the time. What are registrars, hosts, nameservers, and DNS records? And more importantly, how do they actually affect me and my website?
4 Plugins to Make Building Pages Easier
I get this question a lot. What is the best visual page builder plugin? A lot of small businesses and entrepreneurs want to be able to get a beautiful looking website without swimming in the mess of all that code. Definition: A visual page building plugin is a tool installed