Chances are, the basic actions you took based on my last security post will initially serve you well in keeping your site secure, but once you get into the tens to hundreds of commenters and/or start using guest posters on your blog, you’ll be big enough to capture a hacker’s attention, if only to try to […]
Content Redesign
A redesign of a website is not just about colors and layout; the most important thing to start with is organizing the content itself. I’ve had more than one experience so far with clients looking to redo the visible design (pictures, colors, layout, etc.) of their site, thinking that fixing that would create more visitors. […]
Security for Your WordPress Site: Basics
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about website security, with paid plugins and features rising to the surface, along with some common sense measures we can take for free. I’m going to share my research with you here, starting with some basic things you can do, and then get to more robust measures in my […]
Where’s the Stuff on My Site?
I had an interesting request from a WordPress site owner a while ago. She wanted to change the physical address posted in the top right corner of her site (she has a brick-and-mortar location for her biz, so this is important). Easy, right? Wrong! The information was not in a widget text box or a […]
SEO: Why Should I Care?
Good question. I’m learning as I build my skill set in the web design field of the twenty-first century that we actually have two audiences for our websites in our online visibility world: humans and algorithms (specifically search engine algorithms). Humans we know pretty well, and many of us know how to write stories or […]
Color Your Site You!
Tweaking colors is one of my favorite things to do with website themes. The cool thing about having a basic background or header theme picture is the opportunity to customize the color scheme based on the actual hues in the visual (I use Gimp, a free, open-source photo editor—think Photoshop—as my tool to find colors). […]