Out-of-the-Box & Future-Thinking Website Ideas If Your Website Was a Physical Store, What Would It Look Like? (A Design Exercise) Struggling with my website’s confusing navigation, I imagined it as a physical shop. Was info hidden like stock in a back room? Was the ‘checkout’ (CTA) hard to find? This exercise revealed jarring flaws. My … Read more
Analytics & Performance Tracking I Thought My Website Was Doing Great… Until I Looked at These 3 Google Analytics Reports My blog’s visitor numbers were climbing steadily; I felt successful! But then I dove deeper into Google Analytics. The Behavior > Site Content > Exit Pages report showed users fleeing from key service pages. The … Read more
Marketing Your New Website I Launched My Website to Crickets… Then I Did This and Got 1000 Visitors in a Week! Hitting “publish” on my new blog felt momentous… until absolute silence followed. Zero visitors for days! Discouraged, I realized publishing wasn’t enough. I frantically implemented a basic promotion blitz: sharing compelling snippets on relevant … Read more
AI Tools for Website Creation I Built an Entire Website Using Only AI Tools – The Shocking Results! Curiosity drove me to attempt building a website for a fictional coffee shop using only AI. I used an AI builder (like Durable) for the structure, ChatGPT for all copy (product descriptions, about page), and Midjourney for … Read more
Website Migration & Redesign I Redesigned My Entire Website in a Weekend – Here’s My Insane Process Facing an urgent event, my outdated website needed a complete overhaul, fast. It felt impossible. My insane weekend process: Friday night – mapped core pages, chose a lightweight theme (Kadence) and block patterns. Saturday – built out the … Read more
Legal & Compliance (The Boring But Crucial Stuff) I Got a GDPR Warning! How I Made My Website Compliant (And Avoided a Fine) An email arrived from a European user citing GDPR non-compliance on my blog. Panic! I realized I wasn’t properly handling EU visitor data. My frantic fixes: Installing a GDPR-compliant cookie consent banner … Read more
Website Speed & Performance Optimization My Website Loaded in 0.7 Seconds – Here’s Every Single Thing I Did Achieving sub-second load times felt like chasing a unicorn, but I was determined. It wasn’t one magic bullet, but a relentless combination: I switched to premium managed hosting with server-level caching. I used an ultra-lightweight theme (GeneratePress) … Read more
Building Specific Niche Websites I Built a Portfolio Website That Landed Me My Dream Job – Here’s How Applying for graphic design jobs felt like shouting into the void. My PDF resume wasn’t cutting it. I decided to build a dedicated portfolio website. Using WordPress and a clean theme, I showcased my best projects with … Read more
Landing Page Power I Built a Landing Page That Converted at 30% – Here’s the Exact Design My early landing pages were converting poorly, maybe 2-3%. Frustrated, I stripped one down for a free checklist offer. The design was brutally simple: a killer headline hitting a major pain point, clear benefit-driven bullet points, a high-quality … Read more
Website Maintenance & Updates My Website Crashed Because I Ignored Updates – Don’t Be Me! For months, I saw those “update available” notifications on my WordPress dashboard and clicked “ignore.” My site seemed fine! Then, one morning, it was just a blank white screen – the infamous White Screen of Death. My host had updated … Read more