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?