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Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating

By using Genesis and Beaver Builder, we were able to go — from request to the site launch — in under 3 weeks and for less than $600.

I’ve been working on a new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to:

WordPress-Website-Coach.com

I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site after this post you’re reading.

The new site includes all the posts from The Hartsook Letter site, but is focused on the following three areas:

1. Building new websites
2. Re-launching older websites
3. WordPress developer resources & coaching

I hope the new site will be better organized, more up-to-date, more informative, and more useful. Let me know what you think.

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Normally putting the URL of a pdf on a line by itself doesn’t display the pdf on a Word­Press page, and if you use the add media button and paste the URL for the pdf into the URL field, you get a link that will open the pdf, but the pdf does not display on the page itself,

Recently a reader raised a question in a comment to a previous post. He was confused about how to move an existing site to Godaddy Managed WordPress Hosting. Having done this several dozen times now I’ve developed some “best practices” and work-arounds I can share.

Google has started rolling out filtering for Google searches from mobile devices. If you site doesn’t meet the criteria for mobile-friendly, your site won’t show up in the search results no matter how relevant your page is to the search. As more folks are visiting websites using smartphones and tablets it becomes increasingly important for […]

Release Candidate RC1 has been deployed.

I’m trying that out on my Hartsook Letter Staging site. Everything looks good so far, I haven’t found my theme or plugins breaking. You can take a look for yourself at https://hartsook.com. (the link will open in a new window so you can compare 3.8.2 and 3.9 if you want to.

Here’s a link to what wordpress.org has to say about 3.9 RC1

Admittedly it’s a new product, but currently there is no elegant way to manually backup your WordPress site at GoDaddy WordPress Managed Hosting. GoDaddy does take a nightly snapshot of the files and database and keeps it around for 30 days. If you want to rollback to a previous version, you have to call customer support and get them to do it. But change is coming…

Hosting your WordPress website on GoDaddy has been strongly discouraged by me and most of the WordPress consultants I know. But GoDaddy has just introduced a new WordPress Managed Hosting plan that may change all that.

There are several reasons why you might want to copy your website,

you want to make a “sandbox” copy to experiment on, without affecting the public-facing production site
you want to change hosting companies to get a better deal, faster performance or more functionality
having a complete copy of your website is a great insurance policy should something happen to your host and your site is lost.

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Using column shortcodes to make 2 columns didn’t work for this post. But I was able to do this on a Page (instead of a Post) using the theme’s 2-column page template.

See the succesful results at: Multi-column video test page

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

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Q: Why build a website?
A: It’s an extension of your business marketing, reaching new customers and new markets.

Your website design is the key component in your internet marketing ecosystem

Your website and other internet properties are part of your business marketing ecosystem, and an extension of your brand on the internet, and should be viewed in that context and not as isolated objects. You website design should be reinforcing your brand and extending your marketing messages to reach potential customers on their terms.

To help with your website design it’s useful to know what your goals are for having a website and how the website fits with the rest of your marketing.

Here are seven questions that will help you understand what you need for your website:

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Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

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Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

This presenta–tion just won 3rd prize on the “Worlds Best Presentation Contest 2010” at SlideShare. It’s worth the look.

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Eels by James Prosek My rating: 4 of 5 stars I just finished reading “Eels”. This book is on the order of Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring about the decline (populations are down about 90% in the last 20 years!) of an important but mysterious global species of fish (yes, eels are fish), and the natural history […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey My rating: 4 of 5 stars A well researched and interesting account of 100-foot waves, the big ones that are expected and provide an “Everest” for tow-surfers to climb and ride — and the unexpected ones that come out […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]

Blog Posts Scroll down to Blog Posts The Hartsook Letter has evolved to: WordPress-Website-Coach.com  I’ve been working on this new website, and rebranding The Hartsook Letter. By the end of July 2017, the Hartsook Letter will forward to this site. I won’t add any new material to the Hartsook Letter site. The new site includes all […]