In a recent conversation with a client, he told us about a previous experience with a web designer who had built his old site. The designer had an impressive website with the latest animations, a large office, and was very keen to deliver the perfect website as soon as possible. And they did deliver everything… Read More »
Tag: WordPress
Beginner’s Guide to Adding Font Awesome in WordPress
It used to be the case that adding icons to your site – e.g. Twitter, Facebook etc. – required image files. This was quite limiting, as those icons couldn’t be styled to perfectly match your site, other than obviously manipulating them in an editor like Photoshop. Then in 2012, Dave Gandy created Font Awesome –… Read More »
16 Free WordPress Frameworks and Starter Themes
If you’ve ever wanted to make your own WordPress theme, you’ll know after reading through the theme development Codex there’s quite a lot of work involved before you write a single line of your own code, which is quite daunting. Fortunately, there are plenty of nice people on the internet who have created starter themes… Read More »
WordPress Plugins – 7 Free Essential Add-ons
Plugins are a simple way to easily and quickly enhance your site without the need to start delving through lines of code. There are literally thousands available in the WordPress repository (over 36k at time of writing), offering just about every customization you could imagine. This is a list of the plugins I find essential… Read More »
Simple WordPress Security for Beginners – no coding required!
Placing a few extra locks on your site is common sense – you don’t want all that hard work destroyed by some random attack. But it can also seem a little daunting when you first start out with a website, especially if the advice from your Google search tells you to start altering php code.… Read More »