WordPress Framework Themes: The Hidden Gotcha! A normal part of a WordPress project is to have the website owner choose their basic site structure by choosing a theme from WordPress.org. There are thousands of themes to choose from. The themes on WordPress.org are free, although many of them have a …
About Secure Certificates (SSL) Setting Up a Secure Certificate Website security isn’t just one task, but a multitude of tasks. One of the things you should consider doing is having a secure certificate (SSL), especially, if your site has a login or any other type of form. Any site with …
Why Is Web Hosting Part of your WordPress Site? There are a whole set of website tasks and technologies that are not tied to your website technology specifically. But, your website technology cannot run without them. One of them is a web server, which is owned by a web hosting …
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 …
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 …
REACTIVE PROGRAMMING TREATS VARIABLES DIFFERENTLY THAN IMPERATIVE PROGRAMMING “… in an imperative programming setting, a := b + c would mean that a is being assigned the result of b + c in the instant the expression is evaluated, and later, the values of b and c can be changed …
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 …
Here we go again, another technology that will cure cancer and guarantee world peace. The truth is, each of these latest, greatest technologies 1) serves a specific purpose, 2) is just a new twist on previous technology, 3) comes with a bucket load of marketing gobble-dee-gook
WHAT IS A MODERN, REACTIVE FRAMEWORK? Udacity has a free course called Build Native Mobile Apps with Flutter. It’s a fairly comprehensive course, but it starts out with the assumption that the viewer is already steeped in the development world. Within the first 20 seconds, you will hear the words, …
