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 …
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 …
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 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 …
When you are first working on a responsive site, well, actually, when you are learning CSS in general, layers tend to disappear on you. At first it’s very frustrating, but maybe the layer is actually there, just not visible.
PLUGIN WRITERS DON’T HAVE CRYSTAL BALLS … they can’t foretell every possible situation where people will want their plugin to work. That means that just because a plugin is supposed to do a specific job, it doesn’t mean it will do what you want in your specific case. For example, …
