Opt-in email is not magic, sometimes it happens organically. In helping a friend with their website a few months ago, we encountered a problem with spam in the comments section. The website quickly gained in popularity, and there were many legitimate comments sprinkled in with the spam. We wanted to control the spam situation without stifling any legitimate comments.
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The Drupal content management system (CMS) is the third most popular self-hosted website builder, according to W3Techs.com. It is used most often by high traffic sites. But why? Why choose the Drupal enterprise CMS or a managed Drupal hosting plan?
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With more than 2 billion active users, Facebook has no shortage of content and posts to sort through.
With so much content to sort through, the Facebook algorithm is what you can thank for seeing the content you care about when you scroll your Facebook feed.
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So what is Discord exactly? Discord is a platform designed with the purpose of giving users the ability to create online communities for various purposes. While originally popular among online gaming communities, Discord has since been adopted by a wide variety of organizations, businesses, and many other groups. In this article, we will discuss the various features offered by the Discord platform and how you can use them to create your own community.
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Custom email domains look more professional than ‘@gmail.com’ or ‘@aol.com.’ Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of free email providers with a custom domain feature. This can be an issue for those using unmanaged server hosting (Cloud Server Hosting or Bare Metal Hosting) but needing email hosting as well.
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If you have ever made a video, you know that it takes time and effort to make one worth watching. The last thing you want after putting in that time and effort is to see that your video is not getting any views.
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Many websites on the “modern” web use JavaScript to create a more interactive experience. However, this extra interactivity can cause performance issues not only for the website but for your personal computer as well. But beyond the performance issues, non-free JavaScript (that is, proprietary JavaScript with obfuscated code) can create security and privacy concerns for users. Many web users (and developers) would prefer to use free, open source JavaScript, so that they know what the code is doing, and can have the code independently reviewed — if desired. For many, it’s always better to have options.
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Much of the work you will accomplish in the course of updating and maintaining websites can be made significantly easier through the use of a good text editor or integrated development environment (IDE). Who doesn’t want to work smarter instead of harder? If you are using some default text editor or web interface for editing system files, it’s like digging a hole with a spoon instead of a hydraulic-powered backhoe. It makes that much difference.
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A social media manager is a person responsible for managing all the social media accounts for an individual, brand, or company (entity).
People in these roles typically work hand-in-hand with the entity they represent in order to ensure all social media posts and content are on brand for that entity and consistent with their style and tone of voice.
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In the search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) world, it’s often difficult to know to where to turn, and what projects to tackle. So much is required to form a well-rounded search strategy. There’s the technical considerations, making sure your site is adequately crawl-worthy, the softer skills like content generation, and keyword targeting. There’s a mix of both harder and softer skills. Once you’ve identified a good strategy, what kind of data will you measure and how will you know if the data you’ve chosen to measure indicates what you think it does.
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While most modern online video games provide their own servers, some games such as Minecraft or Valheim allow users to create servers on 3rd party services. By creating your own dedicated gaming server, you can set up a persistent online gaming environment for you and your friends to use whenever you want. In this article, we will discuss the purpose of dedicated gaming servers and explore some of the benefits of setting up your own server.
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You have no doubt noticed that the WordPress approach to content creation is changing. The emphasis has shifted more toward on-page editing in the browser. This essentially means blocks over text. The pros and cons of taking a content first approach as opposed to an all-in-one design and content approach can produce different results. Each approach provides unique opportunities as well as trade-offs.
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The Brackets text editor, a “modern, open source text editor that understands web design,” is reaching its end of life, and will no longer be supported by Adobe. However, the life of the project, to whatever extent possible, may continue on the original GitHub page, which will remain open.
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WordPress is a great content management system to get your website started and support you as your business grows. As you probably already know, WordPress is free software. This means it’s free for you to use the software, but many goods and services associated with managing a website carry their own costs. In this article, you’ll see how website costs can be budgeted, so you can make informed financial decisions.
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There are a lot of SEO helper tools on the market. And it’s getting more difficult to try them all. In this article, you will get a closer look at the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress and how it can help your website pages and posts make a better showing for search engines.
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