Business
Who should handle the web hosting bill
You’ve landed a client, built their WordPress site, completed the testing, and now it’s time to wrap up the project. But first, someone’s gotta pay… Read More
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WordPress
Simple customizations for your Genesis child theme
As web designers, we are always looking forward to working more efficiently. As I started on a long overdue task of redesigning my portfolio, I… Read More
Business
4 new income streams to diversify your freelance revenue
Freelancing can provide lots of freedom, but not so much stability. It’s kind of a universally accepted trade-off. In exchange for choosing your own work,… Read More
Business
How to hire your first design assistant (and know when you’re ready)
Business is booming. You’re feeling busy, in a good way. Or maybe you’re feeling a little too busy! This is great — it means you’re… Read More
Development
How to use Git and Flywheel together
If you’re building WordPress plugins or themes, you probably keep your code in Git on either GitHub or BitBucket. Read More
Design
Why you should use alt tags for accessibility (instead of SEO)
Accessibility can be a controversial subject. Proper accessibility habits sometimes conflict with established (or at least common) practices in other aspects of the web development… Read More
Design
The best Slack groups for designers
Slack is a great resource for small businesses, agencies, freelancers, or just individual designers trying to network. It makes communicating with coworkers… Read More
Design
The psychology of typography
Along with color, the way you use typography on your website is a key element that can determine the success – or… Read More
Design
9 fantastic free design resources
There are tons of brilliant designers in the world, many of whom have worked hard to create great free design resources for… Read More
Development
7 SEO essentials that all web designers need to know
Web designers and SEO experts tend to butt heads. Why? Because, while these two elements are absolutely essential to any website, they sometimes work against… Read More
Business
The best tips for dealing with difficult clients
As web designers, we want to love all our clients. That’s what figuring out your ideal client is all about, right? Doing… Read More
Marketing
How to use YouTube videos to drive traffic to your website
We all want more traffic on our blog or website. Traffic is what gets us seen, draws clients to us, and helps us build… Read More
Business
4 ways to make sure working for free actually pays off
“Work for the exposure, they said. It’ll pay off, they said!” I know this sounds like the beginning of a meme or comic strip,… Read More
Feature
Check, check, check it out: Our brand new DNS Checker!
Summer is winding down, but Flywheel’s engineering team is still what it’s all about. We’ve got a fresh round of updates for you, starting with… Read More
Development
How to do a basic accessibility audit
So you’ve been learning a lot about accessibility lately, but now you want to check your site yourself and see where you need to… Read More
Business
12 side business ideas to help increase your income
If you’re a web or graphic designer, you know how fickle your job is, especially if you work as a freelancer. This month you… Read More
Marketing
A guide to content marketing for web designers
The marketing world has changed. Today, content marketing costs less than more traditional forms of marketing, and, done well, generates more leads. But you need… Read More
Marketing
The best Google Chrome extensions for designers in 2017
Chrome extensions…they’re better than a bookmark, better than in-browser apps, ridiculously handy, and a fantastic (usually free!) resource for web designers. You may already be… Read More
Business
How to use turnkey websites to grow your agency
As you’re taking on more web design clients and trying to grow your agency, eventually you’re going to run into the natural problem of… Read More
Development, WordPress
How to add custom fields to the WooCommerce checkout page
Powering 28% of all online stores, WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform on the web. With that in mind,… Read More
Design
The best email newsletters every web designer should follow in 2017
A savvy web designer like yourself probably enjoys keeping up with the latest news in the industry, right? But let’s face it – when… Read More
Marketing
How to customize Facebook Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags
Picture this: You are ready with the perfect blog post and an eye-catching featured image to go with it. But the moment you share… Read More
Development
An introduction to accessibility: Part 3
In the first article in our overview of accessibility, we discussed the standards of a site being perceivable. In the… Read More
Development
An introduction to accessibility: Part 2
In the first article in our overview of accessibility, we discussed the standards of a site being perceivable. This essential… Read More
Development
An introduction to accessibility: Part 1
Accessibility is a term you keep hearing, but may not fully understand. This is in part because the word itself can be a bit… Read More
April showers bring new Flywheelers!
We hired seven new friends to work at Flywheel, so after training was complete, one of our first orders of business was to get the… Read More
Design
6 free ebooks that’ll help scale your web design agency
Whether it’s improving your workflow or onboarding a bunch of brilliant new clients, these six free ebooks will help you expand your design and… Read More
Release Notes
April bug fixes bring fewer site glitches
It’s your friendly neighborhood hosting company, bringing you some fresh release notes from under the cover of a comically oversized umbrella. We’ve been polishing up… Read More
Development
How to create 3D designs with the CSS3 transform property
There are two dimensions when it comes to the CSS3 transform property, 2D and 3D. When animating, transforms are used to make an element… Read More
Business
How to streamline the most boring parts of your freelance design business
Most freelance creatives have one experience in common: that moment they realized how much of a creative business involves non-creative things. For me, it… Read More