Posts by Dave Spicer
How to Fix and Recover a Hacked Website?
If you sense that your website or a client website under your control has been hacked, first and foremost, you shouldn’t panic. It is true that a hacked site has the potential to hurt you badly. It can hurt your business, damage your reputation, immobilize your life for a while and even cost you your…
Read MoreHow to Remove malware from your Website?
If you suddenly realize that your website is infected with malware, what would you do? The mere thought of a malware attack is scary, isn’t it? malware can affect your computer system in more ways than one. Sometimes, hackers use them to collect sensitive information, sometimes they are used to disrupt your operations and hold…
Read MoreWhy should you be Using Child Theme for your WordPress Site?
Child themes are themes which inherit properties, functionalities, and styling of another theme called the parent theme. Child themes allow you to modify only a part of the total theme that you are using without modifying the complete theme. Modifying a whole theme often creates problems when you upgrade to a higher version, on WordPress.…
Read MoreImportance of Sitemaps for your Websites
XML sitemaps are very important from the SEO point of view. These sitemaps help search engines to understand just how much of the content needs to be crawled. However, their importance is often underestimated. Sitemaps, also help in improving the navigability of the site and making it more user-friendly. Sitemaps help you to structure your…
Read MoreGet Rid of the White Screen of Death – Permanently!
You may have encountered the ‘White Screen of Death’ when visiting your website. This is a documented WordPress error, and can arise from a number of issues. Low PHP memory limit set by website host Shared hosting providers often do this. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough memory for your plug-ins to run, or scripts to be…
Read MoreHello world!
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Read MoreAdd Social Media Sharing Option to Your Pages / Posts
There is only one reason why you should do this – it leads to more buzz on social media about your pages and/or blog posts, and that can prove to be extremely helpful for your search engine rankings. With WordPress, you could choose from any of 16 designs for social media icons, and you can…
Read MoreHow to Prevent Spam Coming Through Your Websites
One of the most annoying things you would have definitely faced as a business owner (or will face if you are going to start one) is the spam that comes through the contact details on your website. Well now the most obvious thing to do would be to not put any contact details at all-…
Read MoreFour Reasons Why You Must Update Your Website Theme Today
Websites are the best way to communicate with the world. You may have full-fledged business, or you may be an entrepreneur trying to get people to know more about your business, or you may be a part of an institution trying to share their events and news with the public- websites are for just about…
Read MoreShould You Be Using Frameworks In Your Web Designs?
There is a long running debate within the web designing circle whether frameworks serve a whole lot of purpose. While some say they are redundant, others maintain that frameworks play a crucial role. Some argue that websites can be built without breaking a sweat with CSS, JavaScript or HTML. Then why should frameworks find an…
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