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Options for Purchasing Photos, Images, and Illustrations for your Website

If you’re building a website you’re most certainly going to need some images. You have a couple options, you can either take the images yourself, hire a photographer, or purchase images online. The images you put on your website may be more important than the text you write because they will immediately trigger an emotional…

What is a Registrar?

Your registrar is the company where you registered your domain name. This could be any hosting or registrar company such as GoDaddy, Network Solutions, Register.com, or many, many other companies. You can choose to register your domain name for any number of years. If you do not re-register your domain name, you…

What is a Name Server?

Your Name Server is the company that tells all the computers and phones and devices on the Internet where to find your website or where to send an email so it arrives in your inbox, or other things that have to do where to find things that have to do with your domain name. Your…

What is WordPress?

WordPress is the tool that you use to build your website. It is also called the “platform” your website is built on, but really it should be referred to as the “CMS” or the Content Mangement System you use to build your website. When you are choosing a CMS for your website, there…

What is a Theme?

All WordPress websites are built on a theme. A theme can be one that you purchase, or one that is custom written by a developer. A theme is a “collection’ of files make your pages look different. These files are templates and styles. Themes can come with many options that you can select easily. For…

What is a WordPress Plugin?

Plugins can be the fun part of WordPress. WordPress has some functionality out of the box, but not a ton. Do you want a calendar on your website? A special photo gallery that is easy to manage and display? Do you want to add an online form for people to fill out? Do you want…