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WordPress themes: a presentation
Last night I presented at the Cambridge WordPress Meetup on the topic of WordPress themes. Here’s my presentation (.pdf, 63KB) If you have any questions about the presentation, get in touch and I’ll see what I can do to help. Photo: Flickr, NASA on The Commons
Reordering WordPress comment form fields
So, in WordPress 4.4 there’s been an update to how form fields work. In order to help with tab orders, and in a kind of logical step, the comment textarea has been moved before the other form fields. Now, the logic for this does make some sense: when you come to make a comment, you’re […]
Please stop using collaborative tools
Over the years I’ve used a number of different IM, chat, and collaborative tools, and the current trend seems to be to use Slack to work on projects. I’ve got one thing to say about this: stop it. OK, I should clarify. Tools like Slack, BaseCamp, Trello, even Skype, Google Hangouts and others (there’s instant […]
Who hosts you?
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about hosting. Hosting is a vital part of your site’s infrastructure. In simple terms, hosting refers to where your website “lives” – the physical computer it’s stored on. In order for your website to be available to your customers when they need it, you need hosting which is reliable, […]
Making the most of your feature panel: WHY/what
Most websites nowadays have a big feature panel (“hero”, call to action, banner, call it what you will). They’re great for catching the eye and communicating immediately to new visitors. But they have a serious limitation in most cases: they have limited space for content. You don’t want your feature panel to extend below the […]
Multilingual sites and custom themes
Just recently I’ve been doing some work on sites which needed translation. It’s not an uncommon thing, but it’s the first time I’ve really been involved in this kind of job, and I’ve learned a lot. Firstly, I’ve discovered that some SEO people out there are very, very out of date in their thinking. Your […]
Don’t be scared, it’s easy
Some of the most frustrating emails for developers to receive are the ones which start “I’d like to do x, but I’m too scared of breaking anything…”. We’ve put hours or days of work into building a site with a content management so you can run things yourself, and now you won’t even try? Of […]
All about backups
There’s a lot of confusion and wrong expectation when it comes to server backups with hosting. Here’s the score.
Why we don’t use premium WordPress themes
We don’t use premium and pre-built WordPress themes for our site builds: each is unique, tailored perfectly to you and your users, and easier to maintain.
New site launched!
At last! We’ve completed work on the new version of this site. There’s a new portfolio, all new HTML5/CSS3 design, and all sorts of whizzy things under the hood to improve performance and to make it easier to roll out some improvements for clients over the coming months. Hurrah!