Web Design

Affiliate Marketing Income

How to earn passive income from your website? I am often asked this question. Most people think you can just put up a link or banner and instantly generate monthly income. Although that may work for a few, the rest of us have to do a little more work for it to pay off. What is affiliate marketing? If you are new…

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Best WordPress Plugins

WordPress Plugins Used By Web Designers WordPress plugins add new features and functions to a website. Plugins can make a website easier to build. However, you can spend countless hours trying and testing different plugins. In this post I will share some of my favorite plugins. How I Choose A Plugin Always research a plugin before downloading and activating it.…

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WWW vs Non WWW Canonical Domain URL

Canonical URL What is a Canonical URL? According to Wikipedia: “URL Canonization (aka URL Normalization) is the process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner. The goal of the normalization process is to transform a URL into a normalized or canonical URL so it is possible to determine if two syntactically different URLs may be equivalent.”…

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Why Choose WordPress?

Who Uses WordPress? WordPress powers more than 23% of the web – a figure that rises every day. Everything from simple websites, to blogs, to complex portals and enterprise websites, and even applications, are built with WordPress. The 2X Sales Design Team has sourced and customized many WordPress solutions. Most of our sites are currently using the CMS platform. We…

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Business Blogging Benefits, Part I

Why Your Business Should Start Blogging Blogging isn’t just for the computer savvy teenagers anymore. Nor for the DIY Moms. Not even for those strongly opinionated, politically aware urban hipsters. No. Blogging is now one of the best ways for businesses, big and small, to connect to their consumers. Think of some of your favorite businesses and visit their websites. I’ll bet…

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Choosing Domain Names

How Your Domain Name Will Impact SEO & Social Media Marketing Original Article written by Spencer Yao When starting a new website, one of the first and most important decisions you have to make is choosing a domain name. That choice will impact the website’s success in nearly every area, included search engine optimization (SEO) and social media marketing (SMM). Let’s examine how…

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