Google AMP: The Need for Speed
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It is a Google/Twitter project.
Category: Web Development Technologies
Should You Combine Those Two Sites?
Many of my clients have had multiple sites, and have had to decide whether or not to combine the two sites into one. There is no one answer.
Text and Images are the Ingredients for your Website
Website structures are similar to putting together a salad, and how ingredients work in a salad.
What Does It Take to Have Unique Header Images for WordPress Categories?
What Does It Take to Have Unique Header images for WordPress Categories? Background Out of the box, WordPress had programming to attach a unique image to each post. WordPress uses that image on the Category (archive) pages that are lists of posts, along with the excerpt. See example to the …
Why I Don’t Recommend WordPress Themes Not Listed in WordPress.org
Articles from Other Developers 2 Dog Design Engage WP WordPress Most of the sites I have worked on use themes from the WordPress respository (WordPress.org). But, I have had a few scattered experiences with themes from other sources, specifically Avada from ThemeForest (2), Thesis from DIYthemes, and Headway themes, which …
When Plugin Installation Doesn’t Follow the Normal Patterns
When Plugin Installation Doesn’t Follow the Normal Patterns It’s not like I’m new at this. I’ve installed plugins, modules, extensions and libraries in WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and other systems. But, yesterday evening, I ran into the craziest rig-a-ma-roll of instructions for an install I’ve ever run into with WordPress WooCommerce …
The Very Flexible WordPress Sidebar
History of Sidebars WordPress has had sidebar functionality, almost from the beginning. This may be because “WordPress started out because the development of an existing blogging software b2/cafelog was discontinued by their main developers.” So, a structure for a basic blog had already been tried, tested, and improved. In 2005, …
When Website Elements Push Each Other Around
When Website Elements Push Each Other Around There is only so much room in that circle … and there is only so much room on your website … and there is only so much room in your banner. Often, a website owner will request a design change that presents a …
“FREE” Software: GIMP and Paint
GIMP is a “Free & Open Source Image Editor. In this article I will look at some of the basic functions a website content manager needs to perform.
Setting up a Shopping Cart: WooCommerce
Setting up a Shopping Cart: WooCommerce The last few weeks, I have been helping a Website HELP Wednesday client set up WooCommerce. I was surprised to find how many places that process has some unneeded confusions due to bad UI (user interface) design. So, I thought I would install WooComerce …