3 simple ways to own your digital presence
When people find old, outdated information online it creates a sense of distrust. Don't let abandoned socials, or listing you lost access to do any damage to your reputation.
Focusing on accessibility means a better experience for all
As an organization (whether for profit or not for profit) you are trying to accomplish your mission of getting your message through to your current or potential customers, donators, program users. You want to reach the most people within your…
Managing Your Website: When to Hire Help
You don’t have to go at it alone, hiring a partner can make sense and save you time in managing your site. With content management systems and easy site builders like WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, and many others, creating and maintaining…
Website Best Practices: Know your customers
Knowing your target audience makes all the difference in how effective your strategy or website will be. If you don't know who you're reaching, you can't reach them effectively. At the beginning of most of the projects we work on,…
Website Best Practices: SSL Certificates are a Must
HTTPS websites, which are sites using SSL certificates, used to be reserved for sites collecting private data, but that’s no longer the case today. All websites should now have SSL certificates to comply with pushes from Google and Firefox for…
Website Best Practices: Practice Everyday SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is NOT some sort of mystical magical thing and if anyone tells you they have special SEO powers they might be selling snake oil. There are guidelines and things you can do to boost your site's…
Website Best Practices: Don’t Let Your Accounts Lapse
Account Lapses Can Cost You Most of the accounts you will have for your website can be renewed yearly, and it can be really easy to forget about. We’ve worked with more than one small business owner who has paid…
Purrly Maintenance – WordPress Maintenance Done Right
In July 2020, Purrly Digital launched a platform for WordPress clients to help manage updates to their WordPress websites and the WordPress plugins they use. This doesn’t sound like a big deal, since automated maintenance for WordPress exists but what…
How Two Characters Reminded Me Of Fragility
I was performing regularly scheduled maintenance today on one of our client's servers. Due to the length of time we've been building and managing servers for clients our build-outs can differ in slight ways as we evolve our processes. I…
Security Update: WordPress 4.9.1
WordPress 4.9.1 was released on November 29, 2017 and It is recommended that you update as soon as possible. It is recommended that you update as soon as possible because this release addresses four security issues.