CONTENT *** USABILITY *** DESIGN *** ARCHITECTURE *** MARKETING Paul Graham in his essay “Made in USA” tells of an Italian friend being surprised at the ugliness of the American landscape after having taken a train from Boston to Providence. Why, despite it’s great wealth does the manmade landscape of America look so horrendously ugly, [...]
This article is intended to provide a high level view of a conceptual framework when setting out to build or redesign a website as part of an overall web presence. We start building our website by asking a few important questions. As we work through the stages of site development, these questions remain foremost and [...]
The potential performance problem could involve the storing of excessive post and page revisions in the database when writing and editing posts. Having a record of past revisions can be a good thing in certain situations, –like when there are multiple authors, but these revisions do add up quickly and can take up a lot [...]
“You don’t have to figure everything out before you get started.” Chris Guillebeau Beginning any project -big or small, is often the hardest step we take in manifesting a project as a reality. This is true of any project, in any field. If you have a project in mind, it must be realized that nobody [...]
A website is like any other piece of machinery: it needs tending. If you want to get the most out your site or tailor it to meet a specific need, that will most likely involve widgets, plugins, layout tweaks, or knitting in third party software. With increased functionality inevitable conflicts and performance issues crop up. [...]
Just recently I was asked by a friend to build a website. He operates two local businesses and seems to earn a comfortable living. Overhead expenses are kept low and personal spending habits are within means. Marketing is minimal with an ad in a local paper once a month and postcard mailings of specials, special [...]
I’ve played around with different content management systems over the last few years including Typepad, Joomla, Drupal, Indexhibit, and WordPress. Of these five, WordPress is my favorite and in my opinion it’s the easiest to set up, configure and administer. For most users, WordPress offers all the functional capability that could be needed or that [...]
