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As personal blogs proliferate across the internet, one category of blog is steadily becoming more popular: the mental health blog. Many WordPress website owners are using their blogs as a tool to help their own mental health, in turn also helping others with similar issues, increasing public awareness of mental health issues, and aiding medical professionals learning more about mental …
There are hundreds of millions of blogs on the internet, so directing traffic to yours can seem like an impossible task. Lack of traffic can make a blog seem like a waste of time. There are, however, many tried and tested methods for significantly increasing the exposure of your WordPress blog. The time you spend promoting your blog should be …
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When you are deciding what you want your WordPress website to look like, it can be helpful to know about the skills and disciplines that go into visual design. Graphic design, UI design, and Visual design are all commonly used terms describing the process of website building. Here I will examine the actual definitions of these terms as used in …
Often at Clockpunk Studios, we hear some variation of the following question/concern regarding WordPress: “My friend has a WordPress site, and it got hacked. I’ve heard that WordPress has a lot of security problems, so I’m worried about using it.” We completely understand these concerns, and a few years back, we were also concerned about the security of WordPress itself. …
A lot of fun stuff happened over the Halloween weekend, which is maybe why we here at Clockpunk Studios are just now getting around to posting anything about it. (Speaking for myself, as a writer who specializes in horror and a consumer who specializes in monster movies, October is always a busy month for me.) But one of the biggest …
Congrats to the World Fantasy Award Winners for 2016! Read More »
Are you one of the more than 300,000 people who participated in National Novel Writing Month in November? If so, you may now have more than 50,000 words of novel that you didn’t have before. So the question becomes: what next? Fortunately, the official NaNoWriMo website provides a variety of resources for helping new novelists through what they call the …
Here at Clockpunk Studios, author websites are what we do. While we also do websites for publishers, magazines, and other businesses, we got our start building author websites, and—as authors ourselves—author websites remain our passion. That’s why we try to make sure that every author website we build is tailored to the needs of the author, and designed to help …
You wake up one day and your vision is blurry. You Google “blurry vision,” eyes pressed nearly to your computer screen, and find a bunch of websites that advocate eating licorice root for eye health. So you have your significant other drive you to the health food store and get some licorice root extract and maybe some real licorice candy, …
Here at Clockpunk Studios, we pride ourselves on being a client-focused design studio. That means we’re always thinking about and considering your rights as a client. We’re not talking about “legalese” in a contract (although we endeavor to have as little of that as possible, designing our agreements to make sense to layperson and lawyer alike); we’re talking about your …
Do you sometimes forget to regularly update your WordPress site? Do you find it tiresome to keep abreast of WordPress news—stuff like plugin updates, or the rare security threats to WordPress? Do you wish your site was regularly backed up? Do you worry about what to do if your site goes down? Do you ever wish you could just be …
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