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Landing Page Hot Tips

I mentioned before that I manage a few websites including the one you are currently on, which is my personal blog, and manichyena.com, which is about games that my brother and I create together.

I don’t know much about web development and I don’t plan to do it professionally. But I want to know enough to be able to create good-looking simple websites when I need to. As everyone nowadays, I learn either by googling problems or stumbling on useful content. I don’t even remember how I found out about Landing Page Hot Tips by Rob Hope. It’s a series of 100 concise tips on how to improve a website. They arrive in your inbox every day for 100 days straight. I am at day 94. I think most of them were useful and what I really liked were examples of beautiful websites that were often included with the tips.

I can’t in good conscience recommend subscribing, though. I learned useful things — that’s good. But I’ve found out I don’t like the format. Yes, the tips were easily digestible, written in a few shorts paragraphs. However, receiving an email every day tired me out, and I am looking forward to the last one so that I can finally stop receiving them. I don’t think I will ever again subscribe to a similar course or series of tips. I am trying to limit the number of newsletters, and emails in general, that I receive.

If you don’t mind receiving emails every day, then subscribe here if you want.

April 20, 2021 Tagged With: Learn, Website

Squarespace vs WordPress – The Costs

I manage two websites:

  • This one, justynadorsz.com, which runs on WordPress and is hosted on DigitalOcean.
  • A website about games that my brother and I made: manichyena.com — it’s hosted on Squarespace for now.

I will be moving manichyena.com to WordPress in the upcoming days. The main reason is the financial one. Let’s look at the costs.

This website runs on WordPress, which is free. And is hosted on DigitalOcean, which costs $5 per month. I also pay $1 per month for automatic backups. To sum up, I pay $78.56 per year, including taxes.

On the other hand, manichyena.com runs on Squarespace. There are a few price plans and we needed the Business Plan which costs $216 per year. Including taxes, it’s $265.68. There are no automatic backups.

So, Squarespace costs $187 more per year than WordPress + DigitalOcean. It’s not that much if you consider just one year. But we plan to keep our website for years. It’s possible we will still have it in 10 or more years and the savings add up. In 10 years we will have saved $1870 by moving from Squarespace to WordPress on DigitalOcean.

By the way, here’s a referral link for DigitalOcean. If you use it then we both get some hosting credit.

February 23, 2021 Tagged With: Squarespace, Website, WordPress

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