WordPress

Hopefully you have already looked at the homepage design lesson but if not it doesn’t hurt to have this handy checklist of tips for creating a better home page for your website. Remember you only get one chance to make a first impression and, as the homepage is typically the most visited on a small […]

Did you know that having a Privacy Policy for your website is not only about being a good citizen of the internet but that the likes of Google and Bing consider it important enough that the existence of a Privacy Policy page on your website will improve your website’s ranking in these search engines. You

Themes are one of the most exciting aspects of WordPress. The separation of control of the look and feel from content allows tremendous flexibility. This includes the ability to completely re-vamp and re-fresh your website without the need to re-publish content. How smart is that? Before giving you a simple step by step guide to

To pay or not to pay that is the question? There are plenty of places on the internet to get free images usually under a Creative Commons Licence. However you do need to be careful about a couple of points. Creative Commons Licence might restrict you to non-commercial use only. Images that are claimed to

Themes are a core element of why WordPress has been so successful. Anyone that can remember back to the website creation software MS Frontpage will remember the limited choice of website themes. You could surf the web and pick out the websites created using Frontpage.  With over 2,400 themes (most free), and the ability to

You don’t need a hundred pages or blog posts to have a successful and effective business website. In fact a few well constructed pages with effective content will roll over a larger website containing filler content In the last podcast I was talking about the difference between blog posts and static webpages at the very

CAVEAT: This is an old article and using this for images may no longer work. gettyimages®, perhaps the biggest kid on the block, has finally succumbed to image stealing on the web and announced  – “Getty Images is leading the way in creating a more visual world. Our new embed feature makes it easy, legal

In this lesson will take a quick look through high word press works and its underlying structure. Don’t panic, there’s not going to be a whole lot of talk about fancy coding but it will help to understand a little of how things work. Word press is a content management system, often abbreviated to CMS.