When Changing One Web Page Element Requires Rethinking the Others
A website is a cluster of many elements that work together. Changing one element affects the others, sometimes in unexpected ways.
Category: Web Development Technologies
When Technologies Collide, part 1
On my first WordPress site using the Kahuna theme, I created a child theme and added a MetaSlider to the home page banner in the child theme code. I didn’t even bother with the Customizer tools because they are not intuitive On my second WordPress site using the Kahuna theme, …
The Side Effects of Changing Plugins
When the Need for a Plugin Arises In a previous post, I reviewed some issues I was having with trying to decide the best way to communicate what I do with a banner image. You want your website to immediately communicate what you do when the page first loads, but …
A Dreamweaver Surprise
What is Dreamweaver? I began my technical career in an environment where every website task was done in code. If you wanted to switch out a paragraph of text, or correct a misspelling, you had to open the code, read the code, find where the text was in the code …
Those “Default” WordPress Plugins
Why Are There Unexpected Plugins in my WordPress Install? One of the steps of setting up a new WordPress site is to check the default plugins that come with a WordPress install.Some of the plugins, such as Akismet, will be from WordPress. Others will be from the install tool that …
How the Kahuna Theme Does and Doesn’t Fit my Goals
One of the problems with an off-the-shelf theme, is that there is no way that it is going to meet any particular set of needs perfectly until you install it.