My Post-Pandemic Offering

Hello everyone, so much has happened since the last time I made a blog post and I hope this finds you all doing well. I’ve decided to offer a discount for the holiday season. From November 1st, 2022 through January 31st, 2023, I’m offering a 15% discount on new websites. During the same time period, …

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Give it a Whirl…

A list of some website-related tools: Links Use Neil Patel’s backlink checker to see who is linking to your website. Broken links on your website are really annoying, especially since they’re good at hiding. Use the Broken link checker to find all of them! Color Want to check whether the contrast between text and background …

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From 0 to 255

A handy little tool for working with colors is 0to255.com This one is not so much for finding contrasting or complementary colors, but nuances of the same color.

On writing manuals for WordPress web sites

I always dislike starting a manual. The work seems so endless and boring. You have to write everything down, step by step, you have to make relevant screen shots, sort everything, and then create an index for easy reference. Whenever I’m about to start, I always wish I didn’t have to. I do it anyway …

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Compression: making pictures easier to load

For visitors of your Web site it’s important if the pictures they see there are as light as possible, so they’ll load as quickly as possible. If a picture is big that’s one thing (w x h in px), but it shouldn’t be too heavy (weight in kb), especially not for those who are using …

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More Color Tools

It just never ends, the use of color continues to give trouble, both in the area of Color schemes: Copaso and in the area of  accessibility: Contrast-A

Updating Your Own Site

If you already have a Web site and you’re happy with it but you would just like to make a few small changes to the text now and again – and you can’t… there are some options that might be interesting for you. It depends a little on how your site was build originally and on …

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Multilingual and 404

It took me a long time to find a plugin for making WordPress Web sites multilingual that didn’t frustrate me, and after endless battles with Qtranslate en WPML, I’ve finally found one that so far has been reliable and relatively easy to use. Polylang It’s free, not overly complicated, extensive and the author keeps the …

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Meanwhile in the office…

Midwinter, Romy Ashby got a new design for her website romyashby.com, while she herself keeps the content fresh. The website now has the simplest possible shop: a paypal button. kittybouwman.nl has had a small update and a new page will soon be there with sculptures . The Appril’s new site has been online for a …

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