When planning your site here are some useful links for you to check out. Comparing the hosted options Make a Website Hub reviews the choices between the hosted options below. Wix Weebly Squarespace WordPress.com WordPress: .com and .org Article from WPBeginner comparing WordPress.com with WordPress.org WordPress.com explain the difference in detail and so do WordPress.org.…
Basic overview For a website you need four main things: the content for your site – images, text, etc hosting: a place (on a server) to keep it where it can be accessed online web address: the url starting with www. that is the place where people can find your site when they browse the…
Who will be managing your site? At the planning stage it’s crucial to consider who will be managing your site as you take your organisation forward. We’ll deal with issues around how to commission your site or build it yourself in the third blog post in this series. For now think about what staff/time resources…
Do you even need a site? Maybe your client group’s online communication takes place almost exclusively via a couple of specific apps or social media sites such as twitter or facebook. You should certainly ‘be where they are’ but you should consider a website as well. Even if you don’t communicate with your clients using…
In December 2018 Gutenberg – the new WordPress – editor finally launched and changed how we edit WordPress sites. It is intended to make the editing process easier, more intuitive and more fun for general users. I’m a fan – I think it’s a step in the right direction and makes editing easier and clearer.…
Google has now started charging, or at the least taking credit card details, in order to let you use their API key to add their maps to your site. You can read more about that here in this useful blog post from High Rise Digital. It’s still possible to add a google map for free,…
Sometimes you want a gap between two blocks. When you have an image that has text from a particular paragraph block wrapped around it you may not want the following paragraph text block to wrap as well. Separating blocks can be a problem with an image block and a paragraph block that you have put…
WordPress users like Gutenberg Gutenberg, the new ‘block’ editor, is a great development for WordPress.org. Editing content is more intuitive, especially for beginners. I have demo’ed Gutenberg for my local WordPress meetup (in Cambridge, UK). I’ve also taught Gutenberg as part of a 10 week beginners’ course on WordPress at a local college. In both…
In a WordPress website you have several areas – sidebars, footers, etc – which get edited and managed in different ways. Once you know what they are it’s easier to plan your content and shape how your site will look. It also helps you plan how users will navigate their way around it and to…
When it comes to finding images for your site there are a lot of options around. You have a choice of sources for your photos – your own, stock photos, professional/bespoke images and also a mix of these. Depending on the purpose of your site, one option may stand out as the obvious one. It…