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A Shout Out to the Ladies
In the spirit of International Women’s Day, Jenn Mears Web Design would like to give a huuge shout out to all my fellow female business owners! Working with you all and learning what you do and how you do it continues to inspire me. A Higher Balance Cahoon Care...
Creating a Podcast Site
Podcasts are a great way to get people to listen to your content. Think about how busy your day can get and before you know it, it's 11 o'clock at night and that article you opened to read over morning coffee is still sitting there unread. But what if people could...
WordPress Login: Resetting a Password
Pop Quiz: Can you log into your own WordPress site dashboard? If your answer is "Gee, I don't think my developer ever sent me any info about that." then you need to contact them. Right. Now. In fact, while I have your attention, these are the things that you, as the...
The Ins and Outs of WordPress Hosting
The other day I took a look at my client list and was kind of shocked to realize that I have over 70 WordPress-powered client sites under my belt. How did that happen? I didn't really have any time to celebrate though. First thing Monday morning I had a meeting with a...
FAQs About FAQs
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. Jiddu Krishnamurti via GIPHY One: What is a FAQ? FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Question. It's something that your clients seem to always be asking you. It could be as broad as...
How to Add an Admin to Your Facebook Page
Of course, if you are reading this a week from now, chances are Facebook has decided to change how this looks, but trust me-once you have the basics of how this is done, you will be able to muddle through how to figure it out. I had to just to write this! 🙂 Sometimes...
Quick and Easy PayPal E-Commerce
It happens. You want to sell a few things as part of your website but you don't quite feel like going through the entire process of setting up an e-commerce site. Besides, by the time I get through explaining what an SSL certificate is, even I put myself to sleep!...
Using The Smart Slider Plugin: Changing The Image
Sliders have been a really popular feature on websites for the past few years. When used for the right reasons they can be a pretty efficient way to use the "Above The Fold" area of the page. Being able to show a rotating series of images and text from just below the...
How To Create a MailChimp Newsletter
Somehow, somewhere along the line, I have acquired a couple of recurring jobs as a MailChimp newsletter creator. Similar to Constant Contact, MailChimp has placed itself in a market position aimed at folks who may know they need a way to get content directly in their...
WordPress 101: Let’s Create Some Content!
This is the second part in a series on how to use a WordPress site. After developing dozens of sites for clients that say they want to have a site they can edit themselves, I've come to realize that it's not always intuitive as I think to keep a site up to date. I've...
WordPress 101: Welcome to your new site!
I have a WordPress site! Yay! ....now what? As someone who works with WordPress all the time, I have gotten very used to all the ins and outs of the dashboard and how WP works. Even with all that's changed over the years and all the updates that have happened, I can...
Meet My Squad
Welcome to a new series on the Jenn Mears Web Design Blog called "Shop Local"! Last summer I took a deep breath, considered my options, and then made the commitment to join a new BNI chapter that was taking shape in Marblehead. It turned out to be one of the best...
Web Site Maintenance and You
I have been doing this for a while. In fact, I remember creating my first WordPress site for a client and glancing at the list of plugins in the dashboard and thinking "Akismet? Jetpack? Who needs that stuff?" And then a few years later I was pitching the idea of a...
How to Link to an Email Address in WordPress
WordPress has a very handy way to create links to other pages but did you know you can also use it to link text to an email address? It's a question I get from clients fairly often so I thought it would be a good idea to people how it's done. Step 1. Highlight where...
How to Add an Editor to a Facebook Page
This comes up a lot for me. People start a business, they know that they should at least be on Facebook, and they start a Facebook Page. And then, life happens, things get busy and they lose track of running their page and it never gets updated. So maybe then the...