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How to Avoid Late & Non-Paying Clients
If you’re a business owner or a freelancer, you know that it can be stressful enough having an unstable and variable income. The last thing you want to worry about is clients that ghost you after your work is done. Your livelihood depends entirely on invoices paid on time by your clients. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen. Since starting my web design business, I have not encountered this problem once. Here are some tips to prevent late and non-payments
Designing a Logo for Your Online Business
Logos are essential for the branding of your company, and can also have an effect on the overall design of your site. This can certainly be an intimidating process if you have never designed a logo before, but it doesn’t have to be.
How To Make Vertical Lines in Squarespace
If you’ve spent any time building a Squarespace website, you know that it’s super easy to make a horizontal line by using a line block. But what about vertical lines?
5 Reasons People Are Leaving Your Website
There are more distractions, people get busier, and attention spans get shorter every day. Keeping people’s attention has become a HUGE challenge, and many of us have failed to recognize it.
How to Customize the Squarespace Cookie Banner (Updated)
Squarespace made it easy for us website solopreneures to implement that annoying (but necessary) cookie banner on our own sites. I’ve only just turned it on on my own website, but was shocked to see this:
What is SSL and HTTPS + Why You Should Care 🔒
Question: Would you leave sensitive documents with tons of your personal information out on a table when you have guests over to your house?
If so, kudos to you for having a trusting, carefree spirit—you probably won't care about this topic. If not, keep reading
How to Create a Custom 404 Page in Squarespace + Why It’s Important
ou're a savvy business person and you know the importance of retaining customers. That's why you have a compelling website that keeps people browsing for whole minutes.
4 Reasons You Need A Mobile Friendly Website
Why do I need a mobile friendly website? First of all, that's not something you should ask, you should just know—and if you don't know, you should be ashamed not to know and pretend to know. This blog post is inspired by this interesting article from Google.
Should I Build My Own Website?
Coming from someone who sells web design services, one could argue that my answer might be a little bit biased. I build websites for small businesses, start-ups, musicians, etc., so why would I tell you to go build your own website?