Until recently, creating a website meant working with a team of developers, managers, and coordinators. Your great design ideas can’t code themselves, so web creation became a complex process with many moving parts.

Now that has changed. 

New technology allows web designers to operate as full-fledged web agencies on their own. You can take on projects, communicate with clients, and complete entire websites without outsourcing technical work to a third-party.

To do this, you simply need to equip your WordPress site with the appropriate tech stack. By combining a code-free website builder with a streamlined hosting solution, you can design and build comprehensive web experiences on your own.

Elementor is the #1 website builder on WordPress. It empowers designers to build and publish websites using an intuitive, zero-code web editor, and comes with a managed solution that takes the guesswork out of hosting. Elementor Cloud Website is the web creation toolkit designers have been waiting for.

Introducing Elementor Cloud Website

Elementor Cloud Website lets designers build and publish websites without having to find a third-party hosting provider, configure a dedicated server, and install WordPress on it. Instead of spending valuable time performing technical tasks, you can use pre-installed open source software directly on the built-in hosting platform.

This saves designers time, but having the Elementor Pro website builder pre-installed truly highlights the value of the service. Elementor Pro is a complete solution for building professional websites without any coding knowledge or experience. Combined with Elementor’s managed hosting service, it provides the simplest plug-and-play web creation experience on the market.

With Elementor Cloud Website, you don’t need to outsource technical tasks to an expensive team of professional developers. You can create and publish your designs exactly the way you imagine them using Elementor’s intuitive drag-and-drop web editor on a cloud-hosted site.

That means there’s no need to spend time installing WordPress, searching for compatible plugins, or resolving complex dependencies between different solutions in your tech stack. You gain immediate access to a readymade solution that lets you dive right into the work you know best.

Elementor Cloud Website makes web creation simpler and more secure

WordPress is a powerful content management system, but it’s not the friendliest one for non-technical creators. That’s why web agencies typically have a team of developers working to resolve technical issues on a daily basis.

Many of these issues stem from compatibility problems, software updates, and security vulnerabilities. When your WordPress tech stack involves dozens of different technologies made by dozens of different developers, it’s only natural that changing one feature might break others.

Elementor is changing that by providing designers with a full-featured tech stack that contains everything you need to create and publish a professional website. All the software you need comes pre-installed, and all the compatibility issues have already been resolved. It’s a solution that’s designed to simply work.

But that doesn’t mean you have to compromise on usability or security. Elementor Cloud Website relies on best-in-class Google Cloud infrastructure and comes with free Cloudflare SSL certification. Elementor’s managed hosting service includes a dynamic content delivery network (CDN) and 24-hour backups to mitigate security risks.

• SSL certification means your website is protected from hackers intercepting user web traffic or trying to spoof your site to steal user credentials. It also protects users who interact with your website from unsecured locations, or whose traffic passes through compromised network equipment. SSL is a must-have for all public-facing websites.
• CDN technology improves website performance and reliability by copying redundant versions of your website across servers located in datacenters around the globe. If one server goes down for any reason, your CDN will automatically reroute traffic to the closest available copy.
• 24-hour backups are safely stored on Google’s cloud infrastructure. You can access these backups whenever you wish. You can even create unique backups at specific times and save them separately, like right before a major change or website update.

Your Elementor Cloud Website comes with 20 GB of storage and 100 GB of bandwidth. You can support 100,000 monthly visits from the moment you first hit Publish.

Elementor Cloud Website Features and Benefits

With WordPress as your content management system and Elementor as your website builder, you are free to design web pages that meet your exacting standards and specifications. Elementor has earned its place as one of the most reputable website builders in the WordPress community because of its flexibility and ease of use.

Your Elementor Cloud Website includes all of the most valuable features Elementor has to offer:

• A drag-and-drop live editor that requires no coding knowledge to use.
• More than 300 professionally designed web page templates.
• More than 60 fully customizable Full Site Kits with backend functionality included.
• More than 100 web page widgets covering everything from text blocks and imagery to complex forms and popups.

This makes it easy to quickly create high-quality websites that adhere to the latest design trends. Elementor’s power and flexibility separates it from generic website builders that limit what designers can achieve. With Elementor, you can create the exact site you want without compromise.

As an additional benefit, Elementor Cloud Website hosting supports custom domain names at no additional cost. You can choose to host your website on the “elementor.cloud” subdomain, or you can connect your website to your own. You could even use both if you want.

Start building your own websites the easy way

The days of long, complex web creation projects are behind us. The WordPress community has moved onto new, highly streamlined workflows that empower individual developers to act like full-fledged web agencies. You can start creating comprehensive professional websites for clients for a low fixed price of US $99 per year – that’s less than $10 per month. 

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Over last 10 years, people are having a modern websites with so many features and functionalities and this is only because of the open source CMS WordPress. Developing the website in WordPress is simple and easy process. You need to just install the WordPress and select the right theme and required plugins.

Still we can find there are so many static HTML websites needs to upgrade into WordPress theme. These types of websites are not upgraded because of the site owners may don’t want to change their content or they want to keep their site simple.

But the actually reason of not to upgrade the website into WordPress is they don’t know how to convert HTML site to WordPress site. And, they don’t know who can provide HTML to WordPress conversion service without affecting their content and page formatting.

There are so many ways to solve this problem. Below are 5 steps that we are using to convert HTML template to WordPress theme.

To manually convert static HTML website to WordPress without losing your content and design, you need to just create your own custom theme. In this process, you need to do some basic things like copy and paste and create some files and folders and then just upload the final version.

Use Sublime or Notepad++ to access the directory of your HTML site and the directory of your new WordPress site.

Step 1: Files and Theme Folder Creation

First, you need to create a folder and write a proper name. You can keep this folder anywhere where you would like to keep and access easily.

Open the code editor, create below files and save them all in above created theme folder. Keep open all the files so you can edit those whenever needed.

• style.css
• index.php
• header.php
• sidebar.php
• footer.php

Step 2: Copy Old CSS to New style.css

If you don’t want to change your design, copy your old CSS and add into new style.css file.

The beginning of your file will look like below.

Step 3: Cut and Paste your Current HTML

In your header.php file copy and paste everything from your current index.html site. Copy all of which are above the opening div class=”main” tag. Save header.php file and then close.

Second step is pick the complete aside class=”sidebar” tag from your index.html file. Copy and paste everything into previously created sidebar.php file. Save and close the file.

In third step, copy and paste everything after your sidebar class from index.html file into above created footer.php file. Save and close the file.

And last, select all remaining things from your index.html file, copy and paste them into your index.php file. Remember just save it and keep it open.

Now, close your index.html file and move to the next step.

Step 4: index.php Finalization

In this step, from newly created theme’s index.php file, call all the section, which we have added in other files.

Place the following code at top of your index.php file.

Place following lines at the very bottom of your index.php file.

Now, we need to add some basic php code to display content to visitors. So, adding the below code to your new index.php file is your last step.

Finally, save and close your index.php file.

Step 5: Upload your new theme

Now open your installed WordPress directory and add your theme folder into /wp-content/themes/. Your new themes will appear in WP Admin > Appearance > Themes. Just activate it. At the end, release your new WordPress site with your old site’s content.

Use Ready made WordPress themes

There are so many ready-made WordPress themes available in WordPress marketplace. There are free and paid themes. You can select and choose which one is suitable and best for your business. There is a category wise filtration to find your perfect theme.

After selecting the theme, go back to WP admin and then Appearance > Themes and then Add New and install/activate the theme.

Now, see the preview of your site. You can see there is no content and without content your site looks boring. So, we need to add the content from your old websites.

You need to install the plugin called HTML Import 2. For that Go to WP Admin > Plugins > Add New and search for the plugin. After installing and activating the plugin, read the user guide.

Now, you have a new WordPress theme site with your old content and you feel that your website is looks better then the previous one.

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If you are looking for a quick guide with simple but yet effective SEO tips then you are on the right page, read on!

1. Optimize your titles, URL and descriptions

This is probably the oldest tip in the SEO industry but it is still the most important. Add a meaningful title and related description for your page.

2. Provide useful and fresh content

One of the reasons you have a website or blog is to provide content to build an audience, keep your existing readers happy or gain new customers. By content we mean anything from articles, videos, infographics, slideshows, music, comments, reviews or anything else that is suited for your niche.

If your content is static, old or out of date then most probably your visitors will go away quickly and never come back. What is your first reaction when you visit a website that has out-of-date content? It’s exactly the same as the users visiting your website.

A couple of years ago we used to say to our clients that updating was not a very important SEO factor but this has changed due to the competition. There is big competition in every keyword you search and those websites that have the most useful and fresh content have more chances of winning the race.

3. Improve your website’s loading time

If this is the first time you are reading that page speed is important for SEO then soon after reading this post you should do whatever is needed to improve the loading time of your website. If you have read about this before and have not yet done anything about it, you are doing a big mistake.

Because this is important I will keep it simple:

Page speed is a ranking factor – if you have two similar websites and the one is faster than the other, you can expect that it will also rank higher (provided that other things are equal).

Faster websites generate more conversions – This means more sales, more RSS subscribers and more clicks on your ads (if you are using Adsense for example).

More page views – When a website loads fast users are likely to visit more than one page before they leave.

How can you improve the speed of your website? I know that it is not an easy task especially if you are not a technical person but it is important to handle page speed without further delays.

When working on clients websites page speed is among the first things we handle and the results in terms of conversions are sometimes immediate.

If you cannot afford to hire an SEO or a developer to make your web site load faster, what you can do is the following:

• Remove big images
• Remove unnecessary JavaScript files
• Use sprites instead of small images to minimize http redirects
• Move to a faster Web hosting provider
• Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) service
• Use these resources from Google for more tips and tools

4. Implement Google updates

When Google introduces a new feature that is related to their search results, you have to follow their path without delay. The good news is that Google rich snippets is a feature very useful to the searches as well because:

• Structured data markup describes things on the web, along with their properties. For example, if your site has recipes, you could use markup to describe properties for each recipe, such as the summary, the URL to a photo for the dish, and its overall rating from users.

When you provide structured data markup for your online content, you make that content eligible to appear in two categories of Google Search features:

• Rich results—Structured data for things like recipes, articles, and videos can appear in Rich Cards, as either a single element or a list of items. Other kinds of structured data can enhance the appearance of your site in Search, such as with Breadcrumbs, or a Sitelinks Search Box.
• Knowledge Graph cards—If you’re the authority for certain content, Google can treat the structured data on your site as factual and import it into the Knowledge Graph, where it can power prominent answers in Search and across Google properties. Knowledge Graph cards appear for authoritative data about organizations, and events. Movie reviews, and movie/music play actions, while based on ranking, can also appear in Knowledge Graph cards once they are reconciled to Knowledge Graph entities.

5. Register your website with Google and Bing webmaster tools

Some people believe that by not registering your website with Google you can ‘hide’ things from them and slip under their radar and reach the top of the search results. This is not a ‘hide and seek’ game, good long term rankings can only be achieved if you follow valid methods and techniques. For the record: Google already knows everything they need to know about your website with or without submitting it to webmaster tools.

Once you go through the registration process and perform some basic configurations you will get notified if there is a problem with your website and also start looking at some interesting facts about your website like:

• Number of index pages
• Number of incoming links
• Search queries
• Crawl errors
• Number of internal links

Conclusion

The above 5 tips are simple but at the same time they are also very important.  If you are running a blog, ecommerce store or content driven website and you are not getting traffic from search engines, then you need to ensure that you have implemented the above 5 tips correctly.

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What is SMM?

SMM – Social Media Marketing – is a process of attracting an increased number of visitors to a website by promoting the products/services or content on different social media networks.
Social media has the power to uplift your sales and conversions provided you have something useful to share with the users of such big platforms.

Facts about SMM

According to a recent survey, these sites received even more traffic than Google. With these social networks having millions of active users, it makes absolute sense to promote your services or products through such sites.

• Facebook is one of the leading social sites that has more than 82% of small businesses registered trailed by YouTube with 73%, Twitter with 47% and LinkedIn with 47%.
• YouTube is one of the best social media networks that offer highest engagement and lowest bounce rate.
• Facebook drives more referrals than any other social media site with 86% increase in the referrals while Pinterest and Twitter drive 11% and 3% referrals respectively.
• Nearly 49% of web users read people have to say about the product on social media before making the purchase.
• 85% of businesses collect and monitor information regarding their competitors on social media networks.

Accommodating such a huge number of active users, can you afford to miss out on an opportunity to promote your products and services on such a popular platform?

Of course not, therefore we have summarized some of the most effective social media marketing strategies to help you become a pro in online business game.

1. Share content more than once

Though the concept of sharing the same content more than once is still a debate, there are a majority of people who have seen tremendous results by doing so. The main logic behind this is that you don’t always have the same people on your page. Your likes and followers keep increasing and they probably have not checked out your previous posted content, thus sharing the same content after a while gives your new followers a chance to read and get the information.

2. Never share the same message again

Sharing the same message again makes you no less than a spammer. Though sharing content more than once is important, putting the same message doesn’t necessarily have to be same. When you share a post on social media, you normally include a caption with the post you want to share – which is fine. However, sharing the same caption again with other post can frustrate your followers and sometimes can eliminate the room for creativity and innovation. Therefore, share the same post after a while but with a different message. Also, it also allows you to try alternate captions for the same post.

3. Develop a sharing schedule

Many social media sites offer a feature where you can schedule your post and publish the content at the most appropriate time. Check at what time your followers come online and schedule your post according to that to get more visitors to your website. In addition, if you are going to post the same content again, you can schedule how often you want to share it.

4. Run campaigns

Campaigns are the best ways to attract an increasing number of users. Users come to social media sites to explore new and interesting things associated with their interests. According a recent survey, it has shown that users participate more in social media campaigns. Not only have these campaigns helped them develop interest in new brands and online businesses, but also new businesses to get new followers and customers.

5. Keep track of your results

Keeping track of your results is essential to know how much you have succeeded from the last time. It is also essential to ensure that the modifications you made to your social publishing schedule is actually work. There are various things you need to keep an eye on such as post activity, post reach, negative feedback, and fading interest of your users in your content.

6. Target right audience

Targeting the right audience is very important to actually increase the conversion and ROI. As an instance, if you are selling kid’s apparel, you would not target young and college going users rather you should target young and middle aged parents. Therefore, it is important for you to know how to refine your audience and improve the conversions.

7. Optimize your content on each network

As a matter of fact, no two social media networks are same. Each site displays text and images in a different manner. But do you consider this fact while sharing your content on these networks? One of the best ways to make the most of these social media networks is by adding value and variety to your posts. As an instance, Twitter allows 140 characters of tweets while Google+ allows longer text in post. This allows you to add more content and add few important points in the headline to capture the attention. Also, Twitter focuses more on images and thus adding eye-catching images with every post help you make the content noticeable.

Each piece of your post should encourage people to click the link and visit your website instead of keep scrolling after reading it. Social media networks have changed a lot over the past few years. They grew bigger and better with time. There was a time when such networks were just platforms to share and connect with your friends and family. Today where people use them to connect, and communicate with the world, business owners use it to promote their products and services. It has indeed opened gates for many and become a major player in online marketing.

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You need to first understand that PHP-7  is still being developed so you cannot use it in production at least till November when the final version would be introduced. In case, as a potential user you wish to take your share from the process of development, then you can definitely help by downloading the latest beta version, revolving around it and report the bugs you find during the process of testing.

For finding out when exactly the next version would be introduced, check out the project timetable;

1. This version is named PHP-7 and not 6

The present stabilized releases employ the version PHP5.6. After a few disputes, the development experts decided to omit the name PHP-6 for their next big release. PHP-6 already exists as a trial project, but it never saw the production stage.

For preventing the users from confusing the former attempts with the latest developments the latest big release would be launched under the name PHP-7.

2. Integrated with the brand new Zend Engine

The Zend engine has been continuously empowering PHP for a very long time. It was introduced in the year 1999, with the then PHP-4, not to be confused with Zend Framework, an open source execution engine which is written in C and capable of interpreting the PHP language. The present PHP 5 series implements Zend Engine II, which has improved the functionality of the initial engines and has added an extensible object model as well as a prominent performance improvement to the PHP language.

3. Operates at double the speed

The easily recognizable benefit of the latest PHPNG Engine is the remarkable improvement in its performance. The team handling the development of PHPNG has updated the Zend engine, optimized the usage of memory, remarkably and added the just in time compiler (JIT) that helps compilation at Run Time and not before the execution.

The end result is that you can easily see the benchmarks of performance offered by the Zend performance team. With the help of PHP-7 not just your code would be executed very fast, but the amount of servers required to serve the same count of users will be lesser.

4. Easy & simplified error handling process

Handling catchable and fatal errors have not been a simple task for the coders of PHP. The new engine exceptions would help you in replacing the errors with exceptions. In case the exceptions are not caught PHP would continue returning the similar errors as it happens in the present 5.X series.

The latest Engine\Exception objects do not extend the \Exception Base class. This helps in ensuring a backward-compatibility and also results in 2 different types of exceptions in handling the error and these includes the traditional and engine exceptions.

To help the programmers to catch both kind of exceptions, PHP-7 has introduced a new shared Parent Class with the name \Base Exception.

5. Supports 64-Bit windows systems

PHP is a significant member of LAMP stack, which means that its native-environment would be LINUX. But, it is possible to run it on Windows Operating System too. The PHP 5.X series doesn’t offer 64-bit integer or large file assistance.

PHP-7 would change the existing schema as it introduces a consistent 64-bit support which signifies both native 64- bit integers as well as larger files would be supported helping you to run language confidently on the 64 bit windows system in future.

6. Accommodated with new spaceship and null coalescing operators

Combined comparison operator is the official name given to the Spaceship operator. The notation of the latest operator is < = >, and resembles a simplified spaceship.

If both the operands are exactly equal, the Spaceship Operator returns “0” and returns 1 when the left one is greater and -1 when the right one is greater. It is also known as a 3-way comparison operator and also exists in some other programming languages such as Ruby and Perl.

7. Enhancement in the type declarations

In case you’ve ever wished to prevent unintended returning values by mentioning the returning type of the function, the latest PHP-7 would help you in enhancing the quality of your code with return type declarations.

For enhancing the features further, PHP-7 has introduced 4 different types of declarations to embed scalar types including;
• Int
• Float
• String
• Bool

The new Scalar type helps the developers in denoting that they’re expecting floats, integers, Booleans, strings, etc. to be returned. The latest varieties of the scalar which has been introduced by PHP-7 would also be aided by argument Type hints which help the developers in forcing parameter types.

8. You can add anonymous classes

PHP-7 helps the users in using an anonymous class, already a well-established practice in other objects oriented languages such as Java and C#. The anonymous class does not have any class name. The objects that are instantiated using this class exhibit the same functionality as the objects of the named classes.

The Syntax is same as what is used in the traditional classes of PHP. Just the name is not there. When the anonymous classes are utilized appropriately, it speeds up the process of coding as well as the time of execution. The anonymous class works well when the class is employed just once at the time of execution.

9. You can import from the same namespace

If you wish to import a large number of classes from the same name space then you can utilize the new Group Use declarations feature

This syntax helps in cutting verbosity, making the code cleaner and tidier to the eyes and also helps in saving a lot of typing time. It would also be very easy to read as well as debug the codes since group usage declarations support in the identification of the imports which belongs to a similar module.

10. Clean and tidy environment

The main aim of PHP-7 was basically to free the space for enabling improvement. This marked the significance of eliminating the deprecated functionalities as well as unsupported and outdated server APIs as well as extensions.

These are among the most exciting tweaks that will be seen in the yet to be released version of PHP: PHP 7. Let us keep our fingers crossed for the magic that will be unveiled soon.

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Here are the top 10 habits you can take up to ensure that your pocket will always be filled with cash:

1. Set Daily Goals

It’s not enough to set long-term goals, you need daily goals. At the end of each day, reflect back on what you did and how this has helped you get you one step closer to reaching your goals. Think of what you can do to improve your chances and make sure you set your goals for the next day on your To-Do list accordingly.

2. Practice Active Listening

Active listening is a skill that’s essential to any field as it can help you understand what other people need from you. For example, if you are starting up a business talking less and listening more might be the key to your success. Develop your ability to listen carefully to other people, and you will be able to learn and help those around you.

3. Take Care of Your Personal Health

Exercising and following a healthy diet is crucial to success. If you manage exercise, you can make it your daily habit so that you become more productive and get things done easier and quicker.

4. Network Regularly and Volunteer

Don’t underestimate the power of networking. Connecting with other people and offering your help are also major predictors of success and ultimately wealth. Make sure you are reaching out to others and introducing yourself so that you get yourself noticed and stand out from the crowd.

5. Watch Less TV

Most successful people avoid spending more than an hour watching TV each day. Some don’t even watch TV at all. Why? They know they could be doing something that’s more productive than wasting their time in front of a box.

6. Read Every Day

Reading can help you improve yourself, develop your knowledge and encourage you to see the world differently. Find a book you like and spend around 30 minutes a day reading it. You could also buy educational career-related materials to help you develop professionally or check news websites regularly to keep yourself up to date with news around the world.

7. Develop Your Skills

One of the best ways to become what you are dreaming of is by developing your skills. If you want to become better at what you do either to progress career wise, get a promotion or into a job that offers a more satisfactory salary, you have to invest in your talent and develop your expertise to make sure that you will get ahead of the competition.

8. Think Positive

Positive thinking is more than a habit, is a way of life. If you learn how to eliminate negative and self-limiting thoughts, it’s much easier to keep a positive outlook on everything. Be friendly and enthusiastic and make sure you are always open to new opportunities.

9. Save Money

Studies have shown that managing your money effectively can help you become rich. If you manage to control your expenses and save a percentage of your earnings each day, it is guaranteed you will be much richer than you used to be in no time.

10. Hang out with like-minded people

Spending time with like-mind individuals will not only you get to exchange opinions in terms of becoming rich and successful, but will also help you achieve your goals much quicker.

If you want to become rich, you will have to invest in self-development as well as planning and managing your career more effectively. Taking up these habits will not only help you achieve your goals much quicker  you will also get to enjoy the journey one step at a time.

Do any of these 10 habits sound familiar to you? Let us know in the comments section below…

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