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Robby McCullough is a Silicon Valley native and co-founder of Beaver Builder, a drag-and-drop design framework for WordPress. Robby enjoys fishing, hiking, and a good cup of coffee. You can find him in person on the mountain bike trails or virtually on Twitter. Please tell us something about yourself and Beaver Builder. How you ended […] Read the full story

Could you tell us a little about yourself – how you ended up starting Vectips and what drew you to this area of knowledge? I bought the site from a very well-known graphic designer, Ryan Putnam, because I saw great potential in a vector art blog. The right domain name is important. How long did […] Read the full story

Please tell us something about Omnisend and yourself? Omnisend is a comprehensive email marketing toolkit tailored to small and medium-sized online stores. The tool was launched two years ago when the founders came up with the idea to offer the market an easy-to-use, data-driven solution that caters to special eCommerce needs. Omnisend covers the entire […] Read the full story

Manuel Vicedo is the founder of CPOThemes and creator of Forge– a front-end page builder that makes creating great content in WordPress a breeze. He hails from Spain and has been featured on popular WordPress blogs such as WPLift. He is passionate about creating software that makes publishing on the web easier, helping users create […] Read the full story

Could you tell us a little about yourself – how did you get an idea to launch Fit Small Business and how important is it for you be online? We’re entrepreneurs ourselves, and looking around the internet we found a lot of great sites talking about how to run an online business or a venture […] Read the full story

Ryan Matthew Pierson is a technical writer with a history in broadcasting and has worked in virtually every area of media production. He currently works as a technical writer for RocketTheme, a leading producer of templates and themes for WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, and Magento. Could you tell us a little about yourself – how you […] Read the full story

Christopher Gimmer is the co-founder and CEO of Snappa – the easiest graphic design tool you’ll ever use. He’s passionate about growth marketing and his writing has been featured on popular sites like Inbound.org, SEMRush, and AHREFs. Could you tell us a little about yourself – how you ended up starting an online business? I […] Read the full story

Could you tell us a little about yourself how you ended up starting an online business? I first started making money online back in the mid-to-late 90s, while I was still in high school. My first dollar was actually by creating graphic banners for people in the AOL Web Diner chat room and they would […] Read the full story

Reaching for the Stars An astronaut with a wrench floats in the void of space, with only a smoking satellite for the company. Beside him are the words, “Posterous Spaces is no longer available.” On April 30, 2013, this popular service went down. At the time of its demise, Posterous had an estimated 60,000 daily […] Read the full story

Jorn Barger and Where “Blog” Came From Blogs are everywhere. Everybody, every business, everywhere, has a blog these days, some run on free platforms like Blogger and WordPress, but the majority of blogs are created on self-hosted platforms where you are in charge of everything. There are blogs on family, health, writing, music, news, a […] Read the full story

When you just starting a blog you have many things to take into consideration, from choosing a domain name and web hosting services to writing content and promoting your blog. Whatever you started a blog as a creative outlet or to make some money, you probably want other people to see your hard work. After […] Read the full story

Video Transcription Hi, this is Brad with Firstsiteguide.com and in this video, I’m going to be walking you through the “Background Appearance” section of your new blog. If we scroll over here to the” Appearance” section we’ll hover over and then we’ll find “Background” here, and click. What the “Background” section is going to allow […] Read the full story

Tool description Summary. The “Blog Checker / Fifth Eye” tool comes handy when you have to check big lists of websites (URLs). It lets you preview web pages in one display without annoying copy-paste processes and mark (vote) them Yes or No. By using this tool, you can review 100s of websites in less than […] Read the full story

60 Free Blogger Icon Set We’re happy to offer a free useful icon set for you. This cool set of 60 New Blogger Icons released by FirstSiteGuide and our friends from Infographics.kz for the WordPress Blog Community. The icons are available as PNG (in two sizes) and AI source files and FREE of use in […] Read the full story

We’re happy to present you with the “Blogger Sans” font, which was custom-designed to be used on our website FirstSiteGuide.com. However, we would like to release this font 100% free, which means you are FREE to use it in any web design or blogging projects with one condition. The font is licensed under the Creative […] Read the full story

When blogging began, the original purpose was for individuals to share their personal lives online, similar to an online journal. Over the last decade, blogging has evolved from having more personal to more professional goals. Instead of individuals solely blogging for their friends and family, blogging began to encompass professionals blogging for the public to […] Read the full story