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  • How to speed up WordPress and pass the Google Page Speed Test

    Updated: Feb 2021 In order to speed up your website, you need to do the following 10 things. This will not only help you pass the Google Page Speed test but also make your site load under 3 seconds and your scores will be very high with sites like Pingdom and WebPageTest. These are not…

  • Web Thumbnails & Touch Icons

    In designing a website, there are other small details that one needs to consider, like the favicon, the social media thumbnail and the home screen touch icon for mobile devices. Here is the HTML I use: Social Media Thumbnail Instead of allowing social sites to grab whatever image they feel works best, why not just…

  • Should de­sign­ers code their own web­site con­cepts?

    I’m running into a whole new generation of web designers — web designers who don’t like code. They don’t know markup and they don’t care to learn it.

  • Learning how to use WordPress

    I recently found it redundant to teach people how to use WordPress. At first, I created some videos of my own, but with WordPress constantly coming out with new features and interface changes, it would become time consuming and tedious to keep making videos for each update. So I found some professional services whose sole job it…

  • How to transport a WordPress website

    So, this is very simple: First of all, you need to know how WP works. Your serv­er has Word­Press’ core pro­gram files, your theme files, your plu­gins and your up­loads. All these files can be zipped in­to one file and up­loaded to the new serv­er. The oth­er side of Word­Press is the data­base: you can’t…

  • Using Advanced Custom Fields

    Us­ing ACF to make Word­Press more user-friendly for my cli­ents has been fun. What I’ve come across with this plu­gin and oth­ers like it is the pat­tern of any field oth­er than the text or text box work­ing prop­erly. I worked in both Fire­fox and Chrome and had this prob­lem hap­pen to me. If I try to use a…