#1 START WITH CONTENT Everything ever built well started with a well crafted plan. Content for your website is like the glue and mortar that builds the site map and determines the structure. Starting with images and dummy content and building out a site is like building a…
No matter whether you’re on a desktop, tablet, or mobile device, you increasingly expect a website to load quickly. Google cares a lot about speed too. In an attempt to help improve the quality of its search experience, Google has used load times as a positive ranking signal…
“Readability” measures how easy it is for people to recognize words, sentences, and phrases. When your site’s readability is high, users will be able to efficiently scan your site and take in the information in the text without much effort. In plain words, overly technical, or overly complex,…
IF YOU ASK USERS TO INPUT ANY DATA, YOU NEED AN SSL CERTIFICATE If your website has forms, login fields, a shopping cart, or any other input sections across its pages then you’re running out of time to avoid Google marking them as not secure. Well, actually… time…
Here’s a story/rant about content priority. Too many times I’ve seen web projects go sideways when coordinators or project managers push for a site outline first rather than completed copy — then let that copy drive the outline of a project. If the content is an afterthought and…
GDPR privacy has created a sudo-circus panic atmosphere among (US) web developers as we all try and figure out how to get all the sites we host and manage compliant. Since it is way easier if you don’t offer any eCommerce or product sales though your site, or…
View In Browser helps you to launch your projects into your default browser with a simple shortcut, ctrl+alt+v. It also enables shortcuts for various other browsers installed on your computer, such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and more.
Have you ever tried to save a website link to your home screen on an iOS or Android device only to see a really bad squeezed representation of the website you were trying to bookmark as an icon? There is a better way, and with a bit of…
Here is a basic set of PHP.ini directives for any cPanel type hosting to help secure and harden your hosted WordPress websites. Sometime your servers are in another state or country and in the wrong time zone. This can mess up some date and time plugins – this…
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