The Power of Socializing Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are a ‘must’ for any blogger. Be it a beginner or a seasoned-pro, the social networks are a great resource if used properly. Facebook has nearly 300 million members right now and Twitter isn’t that far behind. So, utilising this stream of people and potential [...]
Design The old www.artbyherbie.com website was a simpler affair than this one. Back in early 2008, I registered the domain name because I wanted to showcase my wall art. I was becoming renowned as a ‘shit hot’ wall artist around my neighbourhood and felt a web presence was mandatory. I was already a confident web [...]
Hi, just a quickie here. If you’re out there putting alt=”blah blah blah” within your HTML image tags and hoping for your alt text to appear in your browser in a ‘tooltip’ or ‘hover’ behaviour, then I suggest you give yourself a slap. Reason being, so many people are still thinking this is the norm [...]
The standard wordpress installation doesn’t come with meta tags. That’s the way ‘the way of the web’ is heading towards anyway, and wordpress being cutting-edge technology doesn’t include them. However, meta tags are still useful, so here’s my take on the subject. Meta tags aren’t what they used to be. A few years ago, they [...]
What is The .htaccess File? The .htaccess file is a set of server commands that instructs your server to behave in certain ways. Any version of the Apache web server running Unix or Linux will support it. You can do all sorts of great things with it like have custom error messages, password protect files [...]
Howdedooda. Just a quick post, I like to share these smaller tricks straight away so that it saves me from writing stuff down and then losing it. Have you noticed that the comments box which allows your visitors to reply to a post is missing from your theme’s pages? In most cases it will be [...]
As of version 2.8, the on-board editor in WordPress caused me to spend a whole week of my life tearing my hair out over the layout of my WordPress pages. You see, my transition onto wordpress as a web design and blogging tool came about after I created the first www.artbyherbie.com website. I had been [...]
