We are currently on break and not accepting new clients. Best wishes in all your life engagements.

Luminous Moon

Website Co-creation: Building, Design & Maintenance

Effective July 1, 2018: Shawn is on a break from creating new websites to develop some new skills and re-evaluate her work. Current clients with maintenance packages will continue to be supported. If you are a current client, do not hesitate to make contact if you need assistance.

luminous-moon-6 There is a never-ending stream of information and website resources available for different technology. Primarily, websites built through Luminous Moon are created using WordPress, plus Genesis Framework or StudioPress Themes for WordPress. WordPress is a content management system that gives the web designer infinite creativity. It is also a tool which gives website owners more control of the content, if they choose to explore that route.

Some have the impression WordPress is just for blogging, but, no, it is used for all kinds of websites. According to WordPress.org, it is the foundation of over 60 million websites.

Website Resources

Domain Names

Dynadot.com This is the company I buy my domain names from.  Simply follow this awesome referral link, create a free account, and then use your $5 account credit towards your next purchase! Full disclosure: I’ll receive $5 credit.

VPN (Virtual Private Network) Providers

Witopia. I’ve used Witopia for several years and feel good about referring the service. If you use this link, you will receive an immediate 15% discount and I receive credit too. The current referral rules. For security reason, they protect your on-line identity as well as the enroute data tsent from your computer. Read more…

Designer

Graphic Designer Tim Cyr. Vancouver, BC. Email Tim .He’s helped me with design work, is intuitive and has a great attitude about life.

Go Giraffe Go. Regina, Saskatchewan. Writing, advertising and graphic design firm involved with Look Deeper and ICN RCC.

Images

I like Pixabay.com with lots of free great quality images and videos.

WordPress Themes

Luminous Moon loves themes from Studiopress. Most of our sites are built using these. It’s worth a look! Here’s their Theme of the month.
StudioPress Theme of the Month

 

More about Websites

  1. WordPress Training Videos. If you have a Word Press Site, here is a training course with some basics.
  2. How Much a Web Site may Cost. Learn some basics here.
  3. Website Price Calculator from Luminous Moon.
  4. What is RSS?
  5. How to use RSS in WordPress sites.
  6. Yoast Suggest. Tool to help choosing keywords and improve SEO.

Email

How to fix email sending problems on WordPress from wpbeginner.

Backups

I like to use UpdraftPlus, because it’s simple and also because it gives you many different options to download your backup off of your webhost server. Some of those include Dropbox, Email, FTP, Google Drive and some other cloud storage locations. Personally, I like to keep back ups off the cloud. Here’s an article from WPBeginner.com comparing their top favorite backup plugins.

 

Email

Nice reminders. Email Etiquette.

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!