Known spammers and sources of malware are placed on internet blacklists. There are a number of different types of blacklists used online. Blacklist monitoring lists, for example, are used by large email services such as Gmail, Outlook (Hotmail), and Yahoo. They use blacklists to filter emails for their customers. If an email is received that … Read more
Elementor is an open source drag and drop page builder for WordPress. It’s stylish, it’s easy to use, it offers many content elements, and it’s free to download. Those are all ingredients of a successful WordPress plugin. Launched in June 2016, the developers of Elementor have managed to rack up over ten thousand active users … Read more
Website page loading times are greatly affected by the weight of images on a page since each image on a page has to be downloaded from your website server to the visitor’s computer. The more images there are on a page, the higher your total page size will be; which in turn means that your … Read more
Few people will argue that the star of WordCamp Europe 2016 was PixelRockstar. More specifically, the stars of the event were Wapuu and the PixelRockstar team who walked around for a couple of days taking polaroid pictures of everyone. It was a fantastic marketing ploy that caught the attention of everyone at the event. PixelRockstar … Read more
It is a week since I returned from WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna, Austria. This was the second European WordCamp event I had attended and my second WordCamp event overall. Those of you who read my account of last year’s event will know that the event in Vienna had a lot to live up to. … Read more
Facebook ranks as the third most used website on the internet behind Google and YouTube and the most popular social media service by far. This is why it is so important to integrate Facebook into your website. If you want integrate the service beyond a Facebook follow button and Facebook like buttons, you may want … Read more
Anyone who owns a content based website, such as a blog or discussion forum, understands the problems that spam generates. WordPress owners have to tackle spam on a daily basis. Over the last few months spam has increased significantly on this blog to the point where 90% of the comments that are published are spam … Read more
Most of the websites I have launched during my online career have been developed because of a passion or interest in a particular subject. Knowledge is power and sharing my knowledge of a subject has been the foundation of every success I have had. My latest passion is cars. I never used to be a … Read more
** Please read my more recent review of Responsive :) I am really enjoying working with video more and more. One area I am trying to move more into is video tutorials. I think it is a great way of showcasing products and services. It’s also a great way of walking viewers through something like … Read more
Kallyas is an all-in-one WordPress theme that was released on ThemeForest back in February 2013. Since its release the theme has been continuously improved and refined and as I write this review the theme has generated over 17,500 sales. The design was created by theme developers Hogash Studio. The company are known for producing WordPress … Read more