Starting January slight increase in web care

Manage WP Webcare Wordpress is a Content Managed System. This system, like all systems, need maintenance. I subscribe to  Manage WP and use it weekly (or more) to update your website’s themes, plugins and even WordPress. WordPress sends out revisions about...

New Work at Perugi Design

A lot of new work is coming in this Spring with all sorts of businesses represented. I can think of several lawyers in Natick, a craft cooperative in Wellesley, a riding stable and farm in Medfield, Pilates studio in Easton, a physical therapist in Natick, and a...

Big WordPress 5.0 Update and the New Divi Builder

To those of you who regularly update their website, you may have noticed that your website editor looks …different. That’s because WordPress, which introduced its own builder called Gutenburg a few months ago, has now added this Blocking Layout System in...

Eight Reasons Businesses Need a New Website

Whether you live in Boston Metrowest, Boston or New England, you can be set back by website problems that will affect your bottom line. Here is a questionnaire that is really a list of common pitfalls when you manage your own website. 1. THE WEBSITE IS BROKEN Which of...

New business marketing tools better than the old

Most of my clients know I have been in the graphic design and web design business a long time. Maybe its the gray hair that gives it away! After I worked at the Boston Globe for ten years from 1978 to 1988 as an information graphic artist, I started my own company. At...

WordPress Semantics

You might hear some odd words tossed around when your web designer or developer is talking to you about your website such as “widget” or “plug-in”. In order for you to be able to communicate with your web designer accurately, learn these simple...

Comparing WordPress to other CMS Software

Why I choose WordPress I have had some experience using or trying other Content Managed Systems…. Weebly, Shopify and Joomla. A few years ago, a client asked me to make changes on a site he had created in Weebly. I was horrified at how clunky and blocky it was....

Update: WordPress Video Library

What is WordPress? Matt Mullenweg, founder of the open source and free software WordPress, is interviewed in this informative video. The WP philosophy is insured by his refusal of an offer to sell it for a large sum.