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What You Need to Know about Web Hosting and Servers
By Mike Simpson – Designer / Educator and founder of Tdot Shots and Tdot Create Connect If you’re setting up a website, one of the first (and most confusing) steps is picking a web host. There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings about web hosting. After working with websites and hosts since 1998, I’ve…
Video Review: What to Put in Your Portfolio by Paola Kassa
In this video, the designer Paola Kassa discusses the process where an artist or designer considers how to curate their portfolios. There are many considerations from which images or media to include (curation) to how you share your work via different categories (differentiation via tags, categories or pages). Summary and TL;DR This YouTube transcript from…
Website Portfolio vs. Social Portfolio? (What do Pros Know that Amateurs don’t)
My website vs my social: concept vs reality Let me state upfront and be honest that I sometimes feel I have either neglected my website or my social page. Perhaps weeks or even a month or two have gone by without a single post or edit of a page. So though I may express some…
Interview with Toronto Photographer Paul Flynn (and WordPress Portfolio Review)
About the artist Paul Flynn is a Toronto-based photographer and video editor with broad skills and a diverse portfolio. Originally from the United Kingdom, Paul’s passion for photography began with exploring the British countryside using his father’s SLR camera. After relocating to Canada’s East Coast in 1990, he continued to nurture his creative pursuits. Currently,…
Learn WordPress and Launch Your Own Website (Why Choose WP?)
Are you building a site for a portfolio or business? Are you interested in learning the best tools in the business? Have you considered using Wix or Shopify or WordPress for your site? If you’ve been asking some of these questions about your website creation journey then hopefully this post can assist. In this post…
How to Optimize and Resize Images for WordPress (Formats for Web including JPG, PNG and WEBP)
Are you creating a portfolio or photo gallery on your website? Uploading images for your business or personal blog? If so, you have to consider the benefits and advantages of image optimization. In short, uploading quality images with small full sizes is absolutely critical. Images less than 1 MB in size can still look amazing…
Contributors Get Free Membership (Create a Blog Post, Lead a Meetup or Workshop, Design a Course)
Some of our membership levels are paid and some are free. Though we don’t have a free membership level on our sign up page, it is possible to get free membership if you contribute to this site or our sister sites (for example tdotshots.com, tdot.com/events). We currently offer our contributing members a “Connect Plus –…
How I Created My Portfolio Site Using Kadence Theme and WordPress
Hello and welcome to my first post on the Tdot Connect site. I’m really excited to share some insights and tips on the topic of how to create a portfolio site on this network. First of all, you’ll need a premium membership which comes in two flavours: Plus and Pro. You’ll find they are similar…
Welcome New Members (Tell Us About Yourself)
Hey everyone. We welcome you to the site. I am Mike. I founded Tdot Connect (formerly Tdot Studio) and I am the lead for our courses, sites, events and public outreach. I also run a design agency via our parent, Tdot.com. It’s great to have you here. Whether you are an artist or educator, photographer,…
What’s New in WordPress 6.4 and Release of Twenty Twenty Four Theme
A new version of WordPress is out and it has some overall improvements and a welcome new feature in the addition of a long overdue lightbox and the release of the newest theme, Twenty Twenty Four. According to WP they write: “Twenty Twenty-Four is an elegant, versatile default theme designed with distinct use cases in…
Get Yourself a WordPress Site and Lift into Orbit
Welcome. Our community and site network is live now on this new platform called Tdot Connect. Visit the main page of our site at tdot.co. Please consider a membership (free community level or premium). Do you have a website? Interested in creating one easily and professionally? Consider taking our WordPress course, and building your site…
Kadence May Be the Best WordPress Theme (Free or Premium this WP Tool is A Must Have)
I’ve used a lot of themes and many caused me to get excited after I discovered them. Usually a wide feature set and adaptability were key to my selection. I wanted a lot of features and the ability to customize my site. About a year ago I discovered Kadence and it has been a revelation…
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