Businesses and organizations face many tough decisions on a daily basis. One of the most important decisions is choosing who will design and develop your website. Common web design/developer choices include:
A person within the company who dabbles in web design and believes they can build the web site.
A … read more
After working with WordPress for several years and combing through countless “top 10″ WordPress plugin blog posts for plugins that A. Work well and B. Are updated regularly and don’t break with core upgrades (often), I’ve come up with my own cache of WordPress plugins I go back to on … read more
Several months ago, Luke posted an article titled, “Is This Possible?” talking about the limitless capabilities of the Internet. I’d like to take this idea one step further. The real question isn’t “Can we do this?” but “Should we do this?
When it comes to website design and function, there are … read more
So, how do you get your readers to explore the rest of your blog posts? Maybe you can offer them some more information about the post they’re on, as well as some convenient links to the post(s) immediately following or preceding the post they’re looking at. The magic code, which … read more
You’ve decided to have your web site professionally designed and developed. Good decision! Now what?
You might already be thinking about the look of your web site or thinking about some cool bells-and-whistles that would be fun to have on your web site. Stop now.
First things first – you need to … read more
WordPress is a beast that I love to hate to love. When it works, it works very well, which is 99% of the time. But when it doesn’t, well, then I can usually plan on spending at least 4-6 hours researching why it’s not, and then (most of the time) … read more
If you are planning to go it alone with Search Engine Optimization, here are a few basics to help climb the search ranks.
1- Avoid pronouns. It, they, these, those, our, he, she and their should be avoided when possible. These words are vague and get overlooked by search engines.
2- Use … read more
I ran across a problem with the WordPress 2.5 plugin EventCalendar where the calendar worked fine, but when you click on a date in the calendar to view the Event post, it would return a Not Found error page. The fix for this is an unofficial patch. Basically two files … read more
After changing a WP blog to display a static home page, I was trying to find a way to also display Posts – the way they normally displayed on a default install – and make a link to that page. What I found instead was a nice, dynamic way to … read more
On a recent site design, I ran across a rare CSS bug in IE 6 & 7. This site has a great demo of what goes wrong (view the buggy pages in IE 6 or 7 to see what I mean), and a very easy hack/fix.
IE6 resize bug position: relative … read more
You’ve probably heard stories from a few friends about their Web site not turning out as expected. There are various reasons as to why some people’s expectations aren’t met. In many instances, it’s due to inadequate content preparation and being unable to effectively communicate your vision to your web designer.
Putting … read more
I get asked this question a lot.
In the world of web site design and development, clients and prospective clients frequently ask “is this possible?”. This question is almost always related to adding features and functionality to a web site.
Most of the time, or actually pretty much all of the time, … read more
For some reason, the hacked code I had in place to make Gravatars show up in Posts and Comments mysteriously broke over the weekend, so after a bit of troubleshooting (and an attempt to guesstimate the issue that turned into a neat feature that makes the author’s email address link … read more
UPDATE: This hack has just recently broken. :( HOWEVER, I found a nifty plugin to replace it.
With thanks to Justin P., we’ve figured out a way to make the Gravatars plugin for WordPress (available at the gravatars website) display gravatars for BOTH Comments AND Posts. Not only that, but … read more
After upgrading the blog to version 2.3.1 and combing through posts like this to find good plugins, I’ve implemented a few on this site. The constant challenge of finding good 3rd party plugins for your WordPress blog is that some don’t play well with others and many just don’t work. … read more
