Website Strategy

Building your Platform on WordPress: The First Steps

If you're building your platform on WordPress, there are a few things you need to think about up front. Here are your first steps.

You need more than a website. You need a platform.

If you keep adding to your site, a feature at a time, it may be time to realize you don't need a website. You need a platform.

What makes a WordPress theme beautiful?

If you're going to step into theme design, you likely want to ask yourself this question: What makes a WordPress theme beautiful? Here's my take.

A Tale of Two Customizers: helping users customize WordPress

If you're building a product that will allow users to customize WordPress, take a lesson from these two examples.

Start a blog that matters

I've been helping my daughter start a blog. It's led to many conversations - all with the same point. If you're going to do it, start a blog that matters.

Do you want to build a website?

You've seen Frozen, right? Well, here's my take (for my little girl): Do you want to build a website?

How often should I blog?

It's a question I hear all the time: How often should I blog? And my answer, even as a daily blogger, may surprise you.

Four rules for building your platform…

If you want to start building your platform, you're going to want to start with a blog. Use it in the way I describe here, and you'll soon have an audience.

Do you need to make a new WordPress site? Try Make

Make is a free WordPress drag & drop theme that you're really going to like.

You wouldn’t buy a car this way, so don’t design your site like this

You would never walk into the dealership and make a purchasing decision based solely on how a car looks right? So why are you making choices like that when you design your site?

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