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So you want a website, and you’ve heard of WordPress, and maybe you’ve heard that there are two kinds of WordPress: WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Say what? If your needs are simple and your budget is small, a personal blog for … Continue reading
WordPress keeps getting better, but only if you make the updates. For example, WordPress 3.9, which is just out as I write this post, has a much improved image processing module which makes it easier to edit pictures. The most important reason for keeping … Continue reading
Most of the new sites and redesigns that I’m creating nowadays are built on WordPress. Why? WordPress is a open-source blogging application that can be installed on a domain either as part of a site or as the basis of … Continue reading
My friend Richard Novossiltzeff is assembling his family history on a new WordPress site. He’s having great fun sorting through the documents that have been sitting in boxes for decades, scanning them and getting them online for posterity. He’s finding … Continue reading
The fonts that people see on a website (or blog) – or in an e-mail, for that matter, are the ones they have on their computer. It matters not which ones you have on yours. “Browser-safe” fonts are very few … Continue reading
I now have two clients who tried blogging, with the best of intentions, but didn’t keep it up. One tried Twitter but that fizzled too. Now, both have set up Facebook Pages, and have finally found their social medium. I … Continue reading
Maybe you’ve heard that it’s good to have a blog on your website – that it brings more visitors. Want proof? I have a fun little website – a labour of love – that I’ve been growing for 10 years … Continue reading