by Ernie St Gelais | Jun 13, 2026 | Web Development, WordPress
Here is a question I get from clients who just watched a designer spend an hour perfecting their homepage on a 27-inch monitor: what screen size to design for when the people actually visiting are holding a phone. The honest answer is that there is no single screen...
by Ernie St Gelais | Jun 10, 2026 | Google Business Profile, Articles
A customer in your town pulls out their phone, types your service plus the city name, and hits search. In the next three seconds Google decides whether your business shows up in that little map box at the top or whether your competitor does. That box is built almost...
by Ernie St Gelais | Jun 9, 2026 | Web Development, Articles, SEO, WordPress
On the median mobile home page in 2025, images accounted for 911 KB of the 2.56 MB total. That is more than JavaScript, more than fonts, more than everything else combined on a typical page. According to the HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac, images are the single largest...
by Ernie St Gelais | Jun 4, 2026 | Divi, Articles, Divi 5
The Gist If you stop using Divi without preparing, your old Divi 4 pages display raw shortcodes like mixed in with your content, which is the classic Divi lock-in problem. You can cancel a Divi subscription from the Elegant Themes members area at any time, and your...
by Ernie St Gelais | Jun 3, 2026 | Articles, WordPress
The Gist WordPress is not going away. It still runs 41.9% of all websites and 59.6% of every site built on a known CMS as of May 2026, more than every competitor combined. It is, for the first time, losing share. WordPress slipped from 43.2% in December 2025 to 41.9%...