Eric Karkovack Author at 1stWebDesigner

How to Set Yourself Apart from DIY Website Providers

Competition within the web design industry is fierce. With the sheer number of agencies and freelancers out there fighting for clients, it can feel like no project is uncontested. Throw…

Is Social Media Still an Effective Means to Promote Your Design Business?

Running your own web design business often means adopting some guerilla marketing tactics. Most of us can’t afford to buy billboards or 30-second television spots. Therefore, we need to take…

Simple Ways to Keep Your WordPress Site Secure

When we think of web security, we often envision a giant server farm teeming with IT professionals along with developers who pore over every bit of code. Then too, we…

10 Free Barebones Starter Templates for Bootstrap

The Bootstrap framework is quite popular with web designers. It provides everything you need to get a design project off to a running start. Plus, it’s been created with mobile…

The Struggle for Freelance Growth

Being a freelance web designer offers plenty of advantages. You get to work the way you want and for the type of clients you prefer. Whether you’re specializing in a…

How Will Gutenberg Change Your WordPress Workflow?

The way you develop for and create content with WordPress is changing. With the release of WordPress 5.0 and the new Gutenberg editor, there will be a lot of adjustments…

An Introduction to Variable Fonts for Web Designers

Typography on the web has come a long way. We’ve gone from the days of just a few basic system-based fonts to now having nearly endless possibilities. But all of…

10 Essential WooCommerce Plugins for Managing Your Store

What makes WooCommerce such a compelling eCommerce platform is that, just like other WordPress plugins, it can be extended to perform more and more tasks. For example, complex functionality (advanced…

20 Free Plugins for WordPress Slideshows & Galleries

Image slideshows and galleries are pretty much a necessity these days. Good thing there are a ton of powerful, yet free WordPress plugins to choose from that can get the…

10 Clean, Simple & Professional Newsletter Templates

Email newsletters are a necessary component of doing business these days. Everyone should have a mailing list (you do have a list, don’t you?) and send out periodic messages. The…

A SEO Checklist for Your WordPress Website

A website, no matter how amazing it looks or how great the content, isn’t worth much if people don’t know it exists. That’s why SEO generates a never-ending stream of…

Essential Documents for Freelance Web Designers

The act of becoming a freelancer often comes from having a true passion for your work. Many of us are consumed with keeping up with the latest technologies and keeping…

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