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Computer Says No: Does Your Website Work for People with Disabilities?

By Small Biz Geek on December 18, 2020 · Filed Under: Design, Internet, Legal, Web Development, WordPress Updated: February 19, 2021

Photo of a dog wearing large glasses using a computer tablet

The 2020 surge in internet use has led to record levels of online activity. It’s high time for businesses to check that their apps and websites are fully accessible to all.

Waiting on Final Images for a WordPress Website? Use Temporary Placeholders and Design Around Them

By Small Biz Geek on June 25, 2019 · Filed Under: Design, Web Development, WordPress Updated: February 11, 2020

Don’t wait on graphics or photos while your WordPress website is being built. Create your layout using placeholder images and edit these exact same files once you have the final artwork. How often do you begin building a site only to discover the images you need are not ready? Perhaps you’re eager to add photos, […]

GoDaddy Loves Spamming Branded Footer Links to WordPress Installatron Sites

By Small Biz Geek on May 8, 2019 · Filed Under: Web Development, WordPress Updated: May 20, 2019

Remove GoDaddy footer links from WordPress websites

GoDaddy’s love of advertising on customer’s websites is annoying. Fortunately, branded backlinks inserted into WordPress sites generated by quick-install apps can be removed.

Badly Behaved Images? Leverage the Power of Vector Graphics to Eliminate Unruly Design

By Small Biz Geek on September 13, 2016 · Filed Under: Design, Web Development, WordPress Updated: February 18, 2020

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The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format is the frequently overlooked solution to high quality design both in print and online. Once explained to non-designers, it is obvious the advantages afforded by “vector paths” is common sense, essential to workflow and cost effective…

Dodge WordPress Website Disasters: Use a Localhost for Development

By Small Biz Geek on February 9, 2016 · Filed Under: Software, Video, Web Development, WordPress Updated: May 2, 2019

WordPress Disaster

Are you a smart webmaster? Avoid web development hell by testing, building and improving your WordPress site in a localhost offline server…

Can We Really Trust WordPress Plugins? Back Up Your Site Manually NOW

By Small Biz Geek on September 22, 2015 · Filed Under: Web Development, WordPress Updated: April 15, 2017

WordPress Manual Back Up

Do you back up your WordPress website manually? You might use a plugin but these can fail, especially free ones. Better a little caution than a great regret!

This WordPress Media Uploader Problem Makes Your Blog Look Amateur

By Small Biz Geek on August 11, 2015 · Filed Under: Design, Video, WordPress Updated: August 30, 2017

WordPress Thumbnails

WordPress automatically creates thumbnails when you upload images. Add a featured image to a post and a smaller thumbnail is used for your blog archive. How does yours look?

WordPress Duplicator Plugin ZipArchive Failure… My Solution

By Small Biz Geek on April 28, 2015 · Filed Under: Web Development, WordPress Updated: March 9, 2018

Duplicator ZipArchive Failure

I tried to take a backup of my WordPress site using Duplicator but was struck down immediately with a problem I’ve never seen before: a PHP support failure…

You’re About to Get Hacked: A Common WordPress Mistake

By Small Biz Geek on March 29, 2015 · Filed Under: Video, Web Development, WordPress Updated: February 4, 2020

WordPress phpMyAdmin Username Security

In this post you’ll learn a vital WordPress security tip for phpMyAdmin to stop your site potentially getting hacked and becoming compromised. It takes only a few minutes…

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