I’m Going to Make them Call Me and household appliances I thought I would try the Cuisinart food process that sits neglected on our kitchen counter to make gazpacho. I was hoping that it would chop instead of pureeing the vegetables. Then I found out why it sits there unused. …
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 …
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 …
A CONTINUOUS CYCLE OF IMPROVEMENT FOR YOUR WEBSITE Many years ago, I took a Human Relations in Business class from Jeri Mae Rowley. There were so many new ideas, one of which was “continuous cycle of improvement.” This concept is important in my work. Often a client will come to …
CSS: LINING ITEMS UP HORIZONTALLY I don’t want these two Amazon book listings on my site to stack vertically. I want them side-by-side. I can do that with CSS. TOOLS I NEED Software to upload and download files. I will use WinSCP. Software to work on WordPress style.css file. *** …
The banner of http://montanawebmaster.com now has a Contact link and form. Is that enough? What are the benefits and drawbacks of having a phone number in the banner too … where it is easy to use?
I made the decision to use a slider in my home page banner, instead of a static image. The theme had branding text overlayed over the static image. Now the branding is gone. When a different slider plugin is used, the overlay code becomes ineffective. That is part of the …
