Keeping WordPress updated is very important. Why? Because this is what will help to keep your website safe and secure. I monitor and maintain all the websites that are hosted with me as part of my hosting package as standard. So its not something that my hosted clients need to worry about. But if you…
Making sure your images load in a reasonable amount of time within your website is important both for your users looking at the website and also for search engine reasons too. When you have the ability to add images to your website yourself, using software like WordPress as I choose to use for my websites,…
Whenever I design a new website for a company this is one of the first questions I ask – whether they want to include a Blog or News section. WordPress was originally designed for just that purpose and so it is easy and straight-forwards to include for any new small business website. But the general…
Background to WordPress WordPress was first created in 2003 and is now used to power over 60 million websites throughout the world. It is open-source software that is free to use, but has a vast array of free and premium plugins (extra bits you can add to provide specific features eg galleries, shops, members systems…
So in my last post I mentioned about the forthcoming changes of the latest version of WordPress and why I was proceeding with caution when upgrading my clients websites. I have now started to filter some updating of the easiest websites to see how that proceeds and so far so good. However, you should be…
So the latest version of WordPress will be released on 6th December – so imminently at the time of writing this. What’s so different about this that you need to write a blog post I hear you cry! A LOT! So this new version comes with a total change to the editing system within WordPress…
When I set up a new installation of WordPress, there are a lots and lots of plugins about that offer a whole myriad of features and functionality. Thats what makes WordPress so flexible and offers many opportunities for web development. But with all these choices – how do you know which ones to use? First…
I have worked with Bekonscot Model Village since 2010 when I was approached to overhaul their website. The brief at that time was that the existing website was too cluttered and visitors complained that they couldn’t find the information easily prior to visiting. And so this was the new look launched in 2011. It was…
What is an SSL Certificate? I’m sure when you’ve been shopping online you’ve noticed that shops often have website addresses that start with https:// instead of http:// and also some of them show their web address or company name in green and show a tiny padlock in the address bar. Its especially used on banks…
Asprey Harris are an insurance broker who deliver a personal approach to insurance which is very different to the online supermarket websites and they needed to communicate this via their website. They also wanted to make it mobile-friendly and were looking for an easy administrative system to enable them to post regular news items. So…