Category: Web Design
Publish good data on your site for better SEO and website accessibility.
Pay attention to how data is published on your site. You’ll be better at specifying, managing, and publishing a website.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO), A Practical Strategy
If I were to sit down with you to give you a checklist and explain a strategy for SEO, here’s what I’d say. Use a good checklist. Publish people-first content.
Retiring a Domain the Right Way to Avoid Surprises: 410 Gone
Recently a client closed a website and let the domain expire. It was not their primary domain, but it included the company name very clearly. A few months later, somebody…
Fixing Links in WordPress and Seriously Simple Podcasting
We recently published a WordPress website with a blog and podcast imported from Square. We used the plugin Seriously Simple Podcasting, which works really well. Once imported, all the podcast episodes worked…
Quality Content for SEO According to Google
Search engine optimization (SEO) starts with site content. Here’s the open secret: Google publishes a guide called “Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content”. It’s part of a bigger guide called “Explore…
The Block Editor Is a Better Way to Build WordPress Sites. Use It.
Starting in 2018, WordPress began a transition to improved tech for theme/site design and content editing. At the code level, it’s a much better way to manage development. That translates…
Principles of Implementing WordPress, Notes and Explanations
Here are my notes and explanations of my Principles of Implementing WordPress. (See the original blog post.) The result is useful and to the point, and a bit tech-oriented boring.…
Use Old and New Google Analytics for Year-to-Year Comparisons
A few weeks ago, I sent a newsletter about the end of old Google Analytics (Universal Analytics, UA). It will stop collecting data July 1, 2023. Since then I learned…
Principles of Implementing WordPress, The Mind Map
WordPress is often implemented in a bad way, and site owners don’t know it. A bit of education can help resolve that, so I created a set of guidelines for…
Website Styling Orientation – 7 Bits of HTML Everybody Should Know
In this short orientation, I explain how websites are styled and why that’s important to website editors. Some things you can do and some things to avoid. Minimum Qualifications for…
7 Bits of HTML Everybody Should Know
Anybody who edits a website should know something about HTML. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after years of developing websites. When done right, good HTML is good for search…
Introduction – 7 Bits of HTML Everybody Should Know
Find the Series On YouTube Introduction All websites are code, hypertext markup language (HTML). When you edit a website, you edit the HTML code. Anybody who edits a website should…