There are lots of plugins that add social bookmark buttons to WordPress but not so many that only add the buttons for only the social sites you use such as your Twitter page, Facebook fan page, Flickr page or YouTube channel. And most social bookmark plugins increase page load times with Javascripts and tons of … Read more
Most web pages are built with that elusive “HTML” thing. Those 4 letters that web developers, Internet users and trendy grandmothers brandish about as though everybody knows what they mean. But do they really know what HTML is? Do they know what those 4 letters stand for? Many of the clients I build websites for … Read more
Genesis is the most stylish WordPress theme framework I know. Version 1.8.0 of this versatile theme has been released. Lifted straight from the horses mouth, it comes with a few changes: Genesis version 1.8.0 continues in the long tradition of being extremely flexible AND developer friendly. This latest version comes with a fresh new front-end … Read more
A couple of years ago I met a remarkable woman named Blanca Stella through JournalXtra. We’ve kept in touch and worked together on a number of web development projects since then. Not long ago we decided to cement our good working relationship into a business partnership. Our ‘new’ partnership gave us both a good excuse … Read more
CMS, for the uninitiated, means content management system. WordPress is a CMS. Joomla is a CMS. A static HTML site is not a CMS. Any web application that makes it easy to create, store, organize and publish media to the web is a content management system. But how do you know what CMS a website … Read more
I’ve learned, forgotten and thrown out more SEO tips over the past 5 years than I care to remember. Search engine algorithms change so fast it’s hard to keep up. Google’s algorithms have changed so much the past year that I feel like I’m doing the tango with it; and not always without treading on … Read more