Creative by Clark

04/29/2023

Debbie Clark, Owner/Principal, is now a Certified Digital Marketing Professional (CDMP) from the Digital Marketing Institute and Professional Certified Marketer (PCM) from the American Marketing Association.

Certification expertise enables Creative by Clark to expand services beyond Brand Identity and WordPress website design, development and maintenance services. We can creatively use digital technology to help our clients achieve their marketing and business goals.

11/15/2018

Getting client sites ready for the WordPress 5.0 rollout. It was due next week on 19 Nov and has been postponed till 27 Nov, but most in my shoes are hopeful it will be further postponed till late Jan 2019. I really dislike the Gutenberg Editor and plan to keep sites on Classic Editor till theme and plugin developers come up with compatible versions that work flawlessly with Gutenberg. I will write a blog soon about this when I have a few spare moments.

01/31/2018

New post added at Creative by Clark - Brutalist Web Design?

Sharing this WPMU Dev article on Brutalist Web Design as it appears to be a hot trend that in most cases should be avoided. Link to Brutalist Web Design: Where Did it Come From and Why is it Back?

01/31/2018

New post added at Creative by Clark - A Challenging Conversion Project – Drupal to WordPress

While it hasn’t launched yet, I am on the home stretch of a project with numerous technical challenges and a combination of requirements making it a significant endeavor. To what do I speak? Converting an outdated Drupal to WordPress website — maintaining not only all content in three

01/28/2018

This article underscores the importance of regular WordPress maintenance and best practices when customizing existing plugins. Very scary exploit!

For nearly 7 years (of my 19 year SEO career) I did “forensic SEO”. From dealing with penalties, hacked sites to general traffic loss, sorting out why things are going wrong was my life. Over that time I’ve seen a lot of nasty hacks and negative SEO attacks. Recently, I was inadvertently dragg...

11/14/2017

New post added at Creative by Clark - Postman SMTP Replaced by Post SMTP

SMTP to the rescue for WordPress email non-delivery WordPress has a built-in mail script, but unfortunately, there is a high rate of delivery failure using wp_mail(), as many Internet Service Providers consider it insecure and block. There is a presumption that the email being sent via WordPress

09/29/2017

https://creativebyclark.com/w3c-wcag-2-aa-compliance/

W3C WCAG 2-AA Compliance should be the goal of all new WordPress websites and revise existing sites to avoid legal liability and embrace best practice

09/28/2017

WordPress maintenance is not an option Do you think it's wise to never update your personal computer or even your mobile device operating systems and applications? Likely you would never intentionally skip those updates and taking care to safeguard your devices for anti-virus and making appropriate backups to protect your valuable data. Similarly, all CMS, require ongoing attention with WordPress maintenance needs as no exception. [ 1,662 more word ]

WordPress maintenance is not an option: it's required whether self-managed, partially handled via managed hosting or hire third-party service, agency or pro