<div dir="ltr">"3. Avoid opening links in new windows as much as possible. It's pretty common to do so for external links and PDFs, but should be avoided 100% of the time for internal links. Trust people to use the back button."<div><br></div><div>Hi, Greg. Curious about why.<br><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"></div><div>Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"</div><div>________________________________________________</div><div>Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, </div><div>poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change</div><div>* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified</div><div>* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame</div><div>* Certified speaker: International Platform Association</div><div><a href="http://goingbeyondsustainability.com" target="_blank">http://goingbeyondsustainability.com</a> </div><div>mailto:<a href="mailto:shel@greenandprofitable.com" target="_blank">shel@greenandprofitable.com</a> 413-586-2388</div><div>Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. </div><div>Latest:Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World </div><div>(co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)</div><div><br></div><div>Watch my TEDx Talk,</div><div>"Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"</div><div><a href="http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809</a> </div><div>(move your mouse to "event videos")</div><div>_________________________________________________</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:31 AM Greg Perham via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hi Roger,<div><br></div><div>+1 for WordPress. </div><div><br></div><div>You might want to consider MailChimp's free plan for managing your subscriber list. No need to bring JotForm or another third party into the mix.</div><div><br></div><div>Looks like you're hosting on Network Solutions. My experience with clients who were on Netsol has been that they were paying 2 to 4 times above the norm and the performance and control panel were so poor they moved house when they upgraded. If the pricing is good and you can easily install WP, I say stay; otherwise, definitely move on.</div><div><br></div><div>A few things<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">to keep in mind</span> when moving your site to WP (or any other platform):</div><div>1. Make sure <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/" target="_blank">redirects</a> are set up for your .html pages to help search engines index the new pages and keep your rankings.</div><div>2. Do not just copy and paste your current code into WordPress. It needs to be cleaned up and modernized. You will want to make use of heading tags etc instead of spans with inline styles. This is for accessibility, SEO, maintainability, and portability. It's just how HTML is meant to be used.</div><div>3. Avoid opening links in new windows as much as possible. It's pretty common to do so for external links and PDFs, but should be avoided 100% of the time for internal links. Trust people to use the back button.</div><div>4. Use a <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-seopress/" target="_blank">simple SEO plugin</a> to improve your page descriptions in search engine results.</div><div>5. As others mentioned: backups and updates. They're simple enough to do yourself, or cheap enough to get someone to manage them for you.</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><span>Setting it up and moving your content over can be done in a few hours. A number of people on HT have lots of experience with this and could help out, myself included! Feel free to contact me directly if you want assistance</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span>Greg</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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