Improving the Online Experience
Many hosting providers do not support wildcard DNS which is a very useful thing for WP Multisite as it allows your subdomain to automatically resolve. However, you can manually configure your shared hosting package and get it working without much difficulty. Once you have that working you can … [Read more...]
I have used various types of hosting services over the years, from basic shared hosting plans to co-located servers in data centres and more recently have commissioned VPSs (virtual private servers). All of these services have their positive aspects but all have significant limitations. The … [Read more...]
If you have a self-hosted WordPress website or blog you have lots of options for managing advertising on your site. It all depends on how much effort you want to put in and how much money you would like to earn. 1. Display Google Ads This is the easiest option for website owners. You simply go … [Read more...]
Widget Logic is one of the most useful plug-ins I've found while working with WordPress over the past couple of years. Widget Logic allows you to display individual widgets only if they meet criteria you set. This can be really useful for displaying ads or other content on specific areas of your … [Read more...]
Once you start using WordPress regularly you will probably need to get the ID of your pages, posts or categories. It may be for plugins such as Widget Logic or those displaying Featured Content. Maybe you want to try your hand at customising your templates or sidebars. Regardless, it is relatively … [Read more...]
It may seem counter-intuitive to spend money during a Recession. However a relatively small spend on improving the user experience on your website can yield huge savings / increase sales for your business. Sounds good but where are the hard facts to back up that claim, you ask. Usability … [Read more...]
Jakob Neilsen’s Top 10 Web Usability Priorities to increase your company’s sales. Email Newsletters – publish an email newsletter as this will help you establish a closer relationship with your users. Don’t publish it too often and make sure the newsletter contains content that will be … [Read more...]
Three things have happened to change the environment for today’s websites: high speed broadband, the explosion of Web 2.0 and the availability of really cheap web hosting. The result is often slow interactive websites that are unfairly judged against the giants of the Internet like Google, Yahoo, … [Read more...]
Good Design But Poor Usability! This is an age-old question but asked in a new context, namely the Internet . So which is most important – style (design) or substance (usability)? Well it seems that both are equally important to web users. Design and usability both play a major part … [Read more...]
We have all heard the news stories about large organisations such as banks and medical centers that have lost laptops containing sensitive client data on trains and planes or have just been simply been stolen. Nothing for you to be concerned about, right? After all, you only have your own personal … [Read more...]
