When Technologies Collide, part 2
Today, we had a technology collision. After a great deal of work on a new section of website posts, we found that a technology would not show what we wanted to show on the home page.
Category: Website Planning
Cleaning up and Choosing WordPress Themes
Cleaning up and Choosing WordPress Themes Do you know how many themes are installed on your WordPress site? This is not a trivial question. I have seen at least one site that was hacked through an insecure theme. The owner of the site had taken a WordPress class and learned …
“I’m Going to Make them Call Me” and Household Appliances
I thought I would try the Cuisinart food process that sits neglected on our kitchen counter to make gazpacho. I was hoping that it would chop instead of pureeing the vegetables. Then I found out why it sits there unused. Cuisinart is trying to force me to follow their incomprehensible …
What Good is Text if no one Reads it … Besides Google?
Google will give me credit for changing the content on my slider. But the words are not easy for a human to notice or read.
Starting a new MontanaWebmaster.com Site
So, what steps would I take to rebuild my own WordPress website?
Theme Workarounds: How Do I Get Kahuna Feature Boxes to Represent Categories Instead of Posts?
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 …
Part of Website Planning is Figuring out Categories and Names
If you have two files or folders or categories or whatever with the same name, you confuse the computer.
Making Lousy Use of Website Navigation
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.
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.
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, …