Zafer Hammour is a staff author at Web Designer VIP and Social Marketing VIP specializing in WordPress and web design and development and an instructor at WebDesignerVIP Academy of Art and Design. He is a popular speaker and educator on all things design, web standards and open source. As the owner and Web Head at ZaferHammour.com, a boutique style digital media company in Saudi Arabia, he has created WordPress-based web solutions for multi-national companies, political parties, banks, and small businesses and bloggers alike. He also contributes to the local WordPress community by organizing Meetups and WordCamps.

How to Properly Setup Google AMP on Your WordPress Site

 step by step process on how to setup Accelerated Mobile Pages in WordPress. Video Tutorial If you don’t like the video or need more instructions, then continue reading. Setting up Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP in WordPress First thing you need to do is install and activate the AMP plugin. For more details, see our step

Online Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide

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01. InVision Studio InVision Studio aims to cover all bases and be the only UI tool you’ll need. It comes with a bucketload of features to help you create beautiful interactive interfaces, including tools for rapid prototyping, responsive and collaborative design, and working with design systems. If you’re already using InVision with tools like Sketch, there’s

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Free resources to learn marketing in 2020, digital marketing courses and certifications. Marketing is booming and you can make a killing as a professional as a marketer. But if you’re trying to learn marketing by just Googling stuff, things are going to be very confusing. You’ll get conflicting advice from different websites and you’re just

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How are you setting yourself apart from your competition? How do you want customers to remember you? Branding is an important part of building a sustainable website, no matter how new your site is. Here are five quick tips for building your brand, attracting more customers, and keeping them coming back for more. Add a

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Have you created a Wix website but noticed that you are getting no website visitors? Or maybe you have tried to create a nice website using Wix, but it turned out really ugly… Being the CEO of a web design company, a lot of clients ask me why you shouldn’t use Wix to create an affordable website.  When you first check

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I’ve often had clients come to me after using Wix or Weebly to build a website and ask for some help making their sites more visible.  And there lies the rub so to speak.  Wix makes it very easy to build a great looking website, and very easy to build a very badly performing website.

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