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Webflow, Shopify, WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Framer Miss This Simple Navigation Feature
When people compare website builders, they usually focus on templates, AI tools, pricing, SEO features, or e-commerce.
Almost nobody talks about navigation management.
That's surprising, because it's something you'll use every time you build or expand your website. Creating a new page should be simple. You create the page, choose where it belongs, publish it, and move on.
Unfortunately, that's not how many
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Posted in Compare Website Builders
Tagged framer, menu, navigation management, Shopify, squarespace, webflow, website navigation, Wix, WordPress
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How to Optimize Website Structure and Navigation
Ask David! Question: "I am creating my first website. What are the best practices for optimizing a website's structure and navigation?"
This is a very good, important question! A well-planned website structure does double duty: it gives visitors a clear path to the information they need and gives search engine crawlers a clean map to index every page efficiently. When site hierarchy and navigation work together, bounce rates drop, engagement rises, and search engine rankings improve.
Here is how to
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Posted in Ask David!, Website Design
Tagged breadcrumbs, clean urls, easy navigation, internal links, menu button, meta descriptions, meta tags, metadata, mobile-friendly, navigation menu, responsive, responsive app, search engine optimization, seo, serps, sitemap, title tags, website navigation, website optimization, website structure
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Are top horizontal navigation menus or side vertical menus better for your website?
If you are thinking about this question for your website, you either have a very customizable website builder or building your website from scratch! You do have the option to choose which type of menu you want with UltimateWB website builder, with lots of styling options on the built-in Styles Manager that don't require any coding. So is the horizontal or vertical menu best for your website?
The choice between a top horizontal navigation menu
... Continue readingThe Great Deskilling: Why AI Dependence is Turning Developers into Prompt Babysitters
We’ve reached a strange, stagnant point in the evolution of the web. The marketing promised us a revolution: a world where AI would handle the "grunt work" and leave us to focus on pure, high-level creativity. But if you look at what’s actually happening on the ground, the reality is far more cynical.
We aren't seeing a new era of innovation. We’re witnessing the Great Deskilling of Web Development.
From Architect to Babysitter
Ask any developer who has leaned heavily
... Continue readingWix Harmony Is Now in Google Gemini. So Why Are Users Still Complaining?
Imagine you’re already chatting with Gemini or ChatGPT about your website.
Maybe you’re asking it what your homepage should look like. Maybe you’re asking it to come up with content for your business. Or maybe you simply tell it, “I need a website for my landscaping business.”
Now imagine the AI says, essentially, Sure. Let’s build it.
On August 24, 2026, Wix announced that people can connect Wix to Google Gemini and use @Wix to create a website with Wix
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Posted in AI, Compare Website Builders, Technology in the News
Tagged ai, AI website builder, bloat, customizable, gemini, Google Gemini, php, Wix, wix alternative, wix editor, Wix Gemini integration, Wix Harmony, Wix Harmony complaints, Wix Harmony problems, Wix Harmony review, wix limitations, wix studio, Wix website builder
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When AI Sounds Confident but Gets It Wrong: The Mount Shasta Rescue
Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office
There is a new AI cautionary tale making the news, and it isn't about a chatbot writing a bad blog post or blundering through trivia.
It involves three hikers, a mountain, and a very real rescue.
Recently, three novice climbers from Roseville, California, had to be rescued from Mount Shasta after relying heavily on Google's Gemini to help plan their climb. According to the Siskiyou County
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Posted in AI, Technology in the News
Tagged ai, AI errors, AI risks, AI safety, gemini, pizza glue
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Thinking About Switching From WordPress? What Should You Consider Before You Move?
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I'm thinking about switching from WordPress to another platform.
It's not a complicated website, but over the years, I've had to add many plugins, for SEO, security, backups, forms, page building, etc. It feels like my website is living in an old house, and we're just waiting for the roof to leak, or something to break. I've been googling for discussions about migrating away from WordPress and found UltimateWB. Most other discussions I've found are the opposite, and
Posted in Ask David!, Compare Website Builders
Tagged 301 redirects, AI website builder, cpanel, css, custom url, customizable, drag-and-drop alternative, drag-and-drop website builder, duda, easy maintenance, flexible, htaccess, html, javascript, migrating website, ownership, page history tool, redirects, responsive app, switching website builders, third-party plugins, web hosting choice, Wix, WordPress, wordpress alternative, WYSIWYG
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How to Use Google Search Console’s New Generative AI Data to Improve Your SEO
If you run a website, you’ve probably noticed a massive shift in how people find information online. Between AI Overviews at the top of search results and interactive search interfaces like AI Mode, traditional organic search traffic patterns are changing fast.
For a long time, site owners had no clear way to measure this visibility. Google addressed this gap by introducing dedicated Generative AI performance reporting inside Google Search Console (GSC). If the update has rolled out to your Search
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Posted in AI, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Tagged AI crawling, ai impressions, ai mode, ai overviews, AI visibility, clicks, crawlers, ctr, Generative AI performance, Google Search Console, Googlebot, gsc, headings, indexing, keyword research, keyword stuffing, keyword targeting, organic traffic, page structure, schema markup, search engine results, search performance, seo, seo strategy, serps, structured data, user experience
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How to Update the Same Website Content on Multiple Pages at Once
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Question: “I’m currently using Squarespace and am so tired of all the limitations. I have a section that needs to be the same on several pages. It is a mix of text/images. I just want to be able to update this section once and have it automatically updated on every other page that I have it on.
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Posted in Ask David!, Compare Website Builders
Tagged ad(d)s app, adds manager, centralized management, collection pages, embed code, flexibility, footers, global sections, HTML Ad(d)s app, html adds, placeholder text, save time, side sections, squarespace, squarespace alternative, styles manager, summary blocks, synced patterns, webflow, wix studio, WordPress
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Discovered vs. Crawled Not Indexed in Google Search Console: What’s the Difference and How to Fix Each
When you log into Google Search Console (GSC) to check your site’s coverage, it can be very frustrating to find your URLs shoved into the "Not Indexed" bucket. But pay close attention to the specific reason GSC provides.
Two of the most common - and easily confused - statuses are "Discovered - currently not indexed" and "Crawled - currently not indexed."
While they might sound like minor variations of the same problem, they point to two completely different stages in
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Posted in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Tagged backlinks, crawl budget, crawled - currently not indexed, crawler, currently not indexed, discovered - currently not indexed, discovered vs crawled, domain authority, Google Search Console, Googlebot, gsc, internal linking, internal links, seo, seo missteps, seo tips, sitemap, xml sitemap
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