Fonts are not something most people consider very often, although they are a critical element of typesetting to ensure readability. There are certain fonts that are more standard for certain types of documents, while in other cases there is a bit more flexibility. Personal preference also plays a significant part. What follows is a font recommendations guide depending on the type of document you are creating and some basic, useful information about fonts in general.

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As WordPress is powering millions of websites all over the world, it has become the leading CMS platform. While we all love WordPress for its rich feature set, flexibility, versatility and user-friendly attributes, the platform comes with a few common design pitfalls that web developers should be aware of.

Here are some of the hidden difficulties that developers and designers should consider when working with WordPress:

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So, you have finally decided to start blogging. Yayyyyy! You are excited and pumped. The endless possibilities lie ahead. But…so does a quagmire of problems. You wonder instantly, where will I start? You do not know of anything at this stage, but that’s not a point worth scratching your head over. Everyone who went on to make hugely successful blogs, also did not have any idea, they started from scratch. The bloggers at website designing Dubai firm were at loggerheads when they started out. They had to learn all the basics from trial and error. But that is what we are here for, so you don’t have to go through the same process all over again.

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WordPress was launched in the year 2003 as a content management system (CMS) and became the most widely used and favourite website of bloggers around the world. Though it was originally just a site for bloggers, it has now become a big, universal platform for building websites, especially for doing business online.

After you decide the name of your company, get it registered, and are done with all the details except for deciding the platform for your business website, here are the reasons that will assure you that WordPress is the best option for your official business website:

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To say that the job of a digital marketer is not an easy one would be an understatement. If we’re going to make a list of careers that require one to be a jack-of-all-trades, digital marketing would be at the top of that list. The tasks of a digital marketer are manifold and are as varied as can be.

That’s why for digital marketers, the advent of marketing automation software is something akin to a miracle. If not for the invention and proliferation of these programs that help them send thousands of emails to generate leads, manage thousands of contacts, or analyze how their websites are doing on so many levels, countless digital marketers would have pursued other careers by now.

For 2018, these are the top marketing automation tools that help make their jobs—and lives—easier.

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Manual outreach is one of the best ways to build quality editorial links that stick and help improve your relationship with the fellow bloggers in your niche.

Outreaching is not easy though, in fact, it’s so hard that people like to avoid the headaches of finding prospects, building relationships (by interacting with real people) and instead hire an SEO agency or go with private blog networks. Continue reading 8 Important Tips to Run a Kick-Ass Outreach Campaign →

This post is mainly for WordPress developers. So if you already have a plugin on WP.org or are planning to publish one, you might just find this useful. In this post I will tell you about my new service that helps developers to track and analyze their plugins published in the WordPress repository – without having to change any code!

A bit about me: My main occupation is to develop JavaScript components. Also, I maintain a few WordPress sites and have developed a ​ WordPress Tables plugin. After publishing it in the WP repository the concept of ​ WP DevMetrics ​ was born.

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Buried deep into our plugin advanced settings, lies a special feature: Exclude patterns. As you can guess, it allows our users to specify which files or folders are omitted from the optimization.

Using this feature is not as intuitive as we wanted to be, that’s why we wrote this article. Read further to find a few examples of how to use this feature.

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We hope that nobody will have to read this article. But if you are here, this means that you have a problem with our online service, and you got a three figure code that should explain your issue.

Please read further to find what you need to do if you get a HTTP status error when you are using ShortPixel.

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Do you enjoy waiting for a website to load? Neither do your visitors.

“Gosh, it’s great how this page took 6 seconds to load!” –Nobody

Speed optimization is one of the most overlooked aspects of building & maintaining a website. And it affects everything: If your website is slow, you’ll get lower search engine rankings, it will be harder for you to convert visitors to customers, your existing customers will have lower satisfaction rates, and there’s a slight chance that you’ll get shot because you have a slow website.

Thus, having a faster website is (obviously) better for you and everyone who spends their precious time in your website. And in this article, I’m going to show you how to speed up your WordPress website. (Article by Barış Ünver from Optimocha.)

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