Best Practices to Avoid an Image Lawsuit There are thousands upon thousands of images available on the Internet that you can use on your dental or medical website in your pages and in your posts. However, you must make sure that the images that you select, are legal for you to use. Now I'm not […]
The question I get asked the most (other than "Is this going to hurt?") is "What WordPress plugins should I use?" Naturally the choice of WP plugins is a personal thing, but I'll state here that the fewer plugins you use, the better. Now that doesn't mean that there aren't some "can't live without" plugins, […]
Getting patients into the office from your website usually happens in two steps – first they find your website, and then from your website they contact the office. From the technical end of things, these two distinct phases are search engine optimization (SEO) and conversion or website optimization. What type of problem do you have?
Since the beginning of June I've practically lost track of all of the dental websites I've looked at, but one major problem that I see over and over again is the navigation. So here are a few of my favorite tips (read: requirements) for making a great navigation for your website. Navigation Best Practices 1) Use standard […]
As website technology improves and improves, we as dentists are no longer limited to being entirely dependent upon a website developer or IT person to make updates to our websites. There are many advantages to using a content management system (CMS) for your dental website, and this article will review a few of these factors. […]
Situation As you may or may not have heard, there has been a recent rash of attacks agains Wordpress websites that have now increased. The key thing to note is that this security threat mostly targets Wordpress websites where the administrator login username is "admin". The sites that are the most vulnerable appear to be […]
Dear Short Hills Design client, As discussed, please click the image below to signup for the Wordpress website backup plugin. The company is iThemes and the product is BackupBuddy.
In Part I of this series I talked about the advantage of having a Content Management System (CMS) in order to facilitate updating and maintaining your practice’s website. I talked about the open-source system, WordPress, and I why I use the WordPress platform for practically every site I build. Here in Part II of this […]
The Technology Behind your Dental Website When we as users visit a website on the Internet, the technology that is used to power that website is generally invisible to us – as it should be. So while users don’t need to know what type of technology, or “backend” is used to manage and maintain the […]
