When the Good Guys Can Find Your Site … so can the bad guys! And, some of the bad guys will try to load your site with Comment Spam. You have comments on your new website!!! Oh, but those comments are spam. But, what about this one? It seems very …
Branding Should Grow and Change with your Business It all started with The Computer Gal because people had so much trouble spelling my last name. And, they would say, “You know, that computer gal.” I thought about “Computer Girl”, but “girl” has too much porn association. And, it had nothing …
How Much Work Does It Take to Make It Easy for your Viewers? Answer: A lot of work. Here is an example When I was first building this site, I threw up a Recent Posts widget in the right sidebar. It has bugged me ever since. As noted in the …
It Seemed Like a Good Idea … until it was implemented. The Problem: part of the image disappears Can you see the subtle differences in the two screenshots? The WordPress Kahuna theme has “Feature Boxes” under the banner. The boxes pick up posts and the images are the Featured Image …
Looking for Design Inconsistencies and lack of communication in your images One of my favorite presentations at this year’s BigSky DevCon was by Workiva, discussing their need and process to develop a stylesheet for their web service. They had found a multitude of design inconsistencies. The presenter discussed their steps …
A while back, montanawebmaster.com was hacked. As I worked through the hack, I posted my findings on Facebook.
We’ve all done it … named a file or a website folder with the word new or old or current or final. And, years later when we are on the third version of the file or site, we don’t know which new is new.
A user interface should not be sending you hunting all over the software!
WHAT GOOD IS TEXT IF NO ONE READS IT … BESIDES GOOGLE At the top of the home page of my new site, I have added a MetaSlider. The images have captions that are web development planning tips. If I switch them out occasionally, Google will give me credit for …
Website viewers need a place to focus on when they first arrive at the site. Generally, that place will be an image, and it needs to be an image that communicates the message of the site. When there are too many images, especially if they are of equal size, the …
