Cara Zebrowski

Onboarding at Curious Minds

What does onboarding entail, and why are we doing it? Here at Curious Minds, our onboarding process provides you and our developers with the information needed to ensure we have what we need to jump right into your site, and you have the information you need stop worrying about your site, and can instead focus on other, more important items.  

Different Types of WordPress Vulnerabilities : Malware

WordPress is one of the most popular systems in use, with over 40% of all websites currently in use. Being such a popular system also means there are more potential vulnerabilities, simply because these vulnerabilities have the potential to affect so many websites.

Why is Customer Support Important for Company Growth?

Your customer support system is just as important as your product. If you don’t have any type of customer support to help your existing clients, you won’t have any existing clients.  For most businesses, neglecting existing clients can greatly jeopardize a company’s growth and its future long term.

Should I still have a blog on my website?

Blogs have evolved from online diaries to fully fledged marketing tools. They showcase a company’s expertise, increase your SEO, and expose you to more consumers.

What are the Different Types of WordPress Vulnerabilities, Part 2: SQL Injection

We’re back with another chapter in our series on the different types of WordPress vulnerabilities. This chapter focuses on one of the more common types, SQL injections.

Knowing When to Change

There comes a point when everything starts to get a little bland. You do the same thing, day in and day out. You don't even have to think about what to do next because you've been doing the same thing for who knows how long.

Making a More Accessible Website

Approximately 1 in 4 adults in the United States lives with a disability. These range from mobility issues, to vision impairment, hearing loss, and cognitive functions, and others not listed here.

Massive Attack Against 1.6 Million WordPress Websites

Wordfence reported a series of attacks that occurred the week of December 5th, resulting in 1.6 million WordPress websites being affected. The reported attacks came from over 16,000 IP’s over a total of 36 hours.

What Your Developer Should Expect from You

Just as there are certain expectations and goals your developer needs to meet, your developer needs some information and communication from you as well. Knowing what to expect from each other helps fuel a good, long term business relationship.

Web Design Trends for 2022

We’re fast approaching the end of 2021, and with that, discovering new trends for 2022. What’s going to be popular, what’s going to be the ideal design choice? What stays, what goes?

Creating a Work/Life Balance

I used to answer every work call, no matter when or where I was. In fact, one early evening, my boss called. I excused myself to answer it, and see what she needed.

What are Breadcrumbs?

Panko, unseasoned, Italian style, and . . .text trails? We’re not talking about cooking, we’re talking about breadcrumbs for your website.

WordPress Vulnerabilities Part 1 : Brute Force Attacks

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

Maintaining My Focus at Work

I get distracted easily. All it takes is a sudden noise, or a dog walking past and all I want to do is pet that very good pup, or find out what made everything go boom.

Why You Should Avoid Nulled WordPress Plugins

Plugins are great! They help optimize your site, make it run faster, better, stronger prettier, and more. If you want to do it, chances are, there’s a plugin for it.

What to do Before Hiring a Developer

The time has come. Your website needs to spread its proverbial wings and fly far, far away into the world that is Outside Help.

What is Uptime Monitoring?

You’ve probably heard this term before, or seen it mentioned. You may have even seen it mentioned in our newsletter. But what exactly is uptime monitoring?

How is WFH Culture Changing Business Culture?

Before the pandemic turned everything upside down, you could stick your head over your cubicle wall to ask a question, or turn to your coworker in your open office environment.

What to Expect from Your Developer

There are millions of web developers out there, all waiting to be plucked from the ether and put to work. And everyone has their own method, their own practices, but here are a few items to expect from your developer.

Choosing a Web Hosting Provider for Your WordPress Website

There’s a lot to consider when choosing a hosting provider. Sometimes it all feels like a little too much, and before you know it your head is spinning from the number of options available.

When is Outsourcing a Good Idea?

You find yourself in need of more help, but you’re not sure exactly what type of help you need. Or you know where you need help, but your labor budget isn’t ready to handle a new hire just yet.

How to Protect Yourself from WordPress Vulnerabilities

Now that your website is live, it’s time to keep it that way. You don’t want all that hard work to go to waste! What are some steps you can take to keep your WordPress site safe from vulnerabilities?

Making Your Website More Eco-Friendly

We’ve all taken steps to reduce our environmental impact in recent years. Our homes are filled with metal straws and reusable shopping bags. But what about your website?

The Benefits of Partnering with another Agency

Maybe you’ve been approached by a client for an exciting, interesting, and potentially lucrative project. The only problem is that it doesn’t really fit in your wheelhouse, or your team already has a full project load.

Avoiding Procrastination in the Workplace

I’m putting off finishing another article as I’m writing this. Maybe I should follow my own advice? Part of procrastination is avoiding the thing/task that you could fail at, thereby protecting yourself.

Headless Vs. Traditional CMS

Building a website used to be a quick process of finish and forget. Get it built, remove the builders, and then bring in another team to provide content. Traditional CMS used to be the standard approach with website building.

What are the Different Types of WordPress Vulnerabilities?

A vulnerability is defined as “the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically, or emotionally.” Of course, you’re not actually being physically attacked.

Avoiding Burnout in the Workplace

It doesn’t matter how many hours of sleep you get, you’re still tired. It feels like there’s a perpetual fog in your brain, making any thought beyond the most basic all but impossible.

Security and WordPress Maintenance

When it comes to securing your WordPress site, you have a few options. You could hire a team of developers to handle everything. You could figure out how to do it yourself.

Utilizing Web Design to Influence Consumer Decisions

Design is something you don’t quite notice if it’s well done. Bad design, though, hits you over the head with a 2×4. Your web design choices influence customer decisions.

Five Ways to Maintain Morale when Working Remotely

Remote work is on the rise. And if there’s anything we’ve learned from this trend, or from the last year, it’s that it’s good for business.

Why Concise Content is more Important than Lots of Content

Creating the right kind of content, as opposed to just creating a lot of content, helps get you in front of your target audience and keep them engaged. What's the best approach?

When to Break Up with Your Developer

So they’re a little quirky. It’s not that bad, you just need to get used to them, and how they are. No one’s perfect, right? Right? But you never get used to them. It gets worse.

Why Keeping Your WordPress Site Up to Date Keeps Everyone Happy

It’s been a slow month, that’s all. You look at the traffic history and analytics on your website over the last few weeks. People aren’t staying.

Automatic Updates, and Why They’re Unreliable

Automatic anything can be a godsend. Ice dispensers, bill payments, and doors are just a few of the automations we enjoy on a daily basis.

Brand Ambassadorships and Partnerships: How Can They Help to Elevate Your Business?

Every business needs strategies to expand its reach and grow sales. While you may keep marketing and sales in-house in your earliest days, you should explore options to use external parties to promote your brand.

Re-Imagining In-person Events to Online Events

Due to the pandemic, many organizations have needed to shift in-person events to online. Now that people have grown more accustomed to online events, the trend towards virtual may continue.

Business, Covid, and the Future of Remote Work

No one expected a global pandemic would upend life as we know it. But the rapid spread of COVID-19 introduced unprecedented change for organizations and employees.

Getting the Most out of Your WordPress Plugins

WordPress launched in 2003 as a simple way for people to start blogs. Since then, WordPress has grown into the top content management system (CMS), and application framework in the world.

What’s Security Got to Do With It? Understanding Site Security & WordPress

If you use WordPress for your website, you need to take security seriously. WordPress’ popularity as a content management system (CMS) makes it a popular target for hackers.

Headless CMS and WordPress: What You need to Know

Today’s companies are producing more content than ever before. And many are finding a need to populate content across multiple websites or delivery channels. Are traditional content management systems (CMS) keeping pace with demands?

The Ins-and-Outs of Enterprise WordPress Maintenance: What You Need and Should Expect

WordPress has earned a reputation as a user-friendly content management system (CMS). Its ease-of-use makes WordPress an ideal solution for organizations of every scale–including major enterprises.

Using WordPress for Enterprise? Here’s What You Need to Know

You may think of WordPress as the content management system (CMS) underpinning personal and small business blogs everywhere. And that’s very true.

What to look for in a WordPress Maintenance Service

WordPress reigns supreme as the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. But while WordPress has an impressive reach, the CMS also has significant vulnerabilities.