See More about Working with Themes Basic Principles In all my years working with various CMS (content management systems) where themes written by someone else are available, I have never found a perfect theme. The purpose of using themes is to avoid the cost of custom design and the custom …
… they can’t foretell every possible situation where people will want their plugin (or theme) 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. Sometimes the reason a plugin is …
The banner of https://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?
The closer you can come to meeting the Viewer’s agenda, or at least promising to, the more likely they are to allow your agenda in their picture. Ideally, your agendas match, reciprocally. Your navigation should help your viewers find what they want, not what you want.
Every home page “Feature Box” where I used the WordPress logo has a faint icon behind it (see screenshot 1). It’s not from the WordPress logo; it’s from the Kahuna theme. Time for some debugging!
A website is a cluster of many elements that work together. Changing one element affects the others, sometimes in unexpected ways.
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, …
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 …
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.
