I spoke yesterday about the news that Getty Images are allowing bloggers to embed their high quality photos on their websites. Thomas Hoefter from CMS Commander posted a comment noting that the embed option is only available to non-commercial websites, which renders the feature pretty useless to most bloggers. Coincidentally, Thomas recently released a new … Read more
When it comes to speaking directly with readers and customers, email remains king. Its power lies in the ability to contact people instantly and have your message delivered directly to their inbox. Which is why most marketers feel it is more effective than RSS, Facebook and Twitter. For most website owners and marketers, there are … Read more
Text editors are essential for coding and website development. Every editor works differently, but you will find common features across text editing applications. This includes support for multiple programming languages, colour schemes to highlight code, search and replace, debugging tools and more. Free and premium text editors are available online for Windows, Mac, Linux and … Read more
There are many benefits to using a blog editor to write and publish your content. Firstly, they allow you to save your content offline, which is useful to those who travel and those who have inconsistent internet connections. Secondly, many editors make the process of styling your content and uploading media much simpler, whilst others … Read more
I mentioned in my Eee pc review yesterday that even though I upgrade the ram from 512mb to 2gb, the default kernel of the Xandros linux operating system is set up as a maximum of 1gb. To edit the kernel I had to use the Vi Editor. For those who haven’t heard of it, the … Read more
For many years, this website used the popular WordPress theme Genesis by StudioPress. It remains one of my favourite WordPress frameworks, but in early 2020 I wanted to try something different and opted for the lightweight WordPress design GeneratePress. I can’t speak highly enough about GeneratePress. It’s one of the easiest WordPress themes to optimise … Read more
A big part of search engine optimisation involves managing internal and external hyperlinks on your website. Nine attributes are available for the HTML anchor element (<A>). The most important attribute is href as it defines the URL a user should go to, but you will also see the target attribute used frequently on websites. The … Read more
WordPress remains the most popular platform for building websites. There are great alternatives available online, but I truly believe that when it comes to creating content, nothing beats WordPress and its revolutionary post type system. The introduction of the block editor has also improved the experience of creating content with WordPress. I was initially hesitant … Read more
Page builders have become an integral component of the WordPress platform. The early versions of page builders were focused solely on helping WordPress users create beautiful content, however, modern page builders have taken responsibility of essential functionality once found in WordPress themes. The WordPress block editor is technically the most used page builder as it … Read more
Syntax highlighting is a common feature of Text Editors which uses multiple colours and fonts to help you read and analyse code more easily. They can help you view the structure of code, make comments stand out and quickly point out any errors you have made. It’s a feature that many of us take for … Read more