When you upload a file to your website, the item you’ve uploaded is, by default, public, at whatever URL your site give it – usually something like sitename.com/[various paths]/imagename.jpg (or /document-name.pdf, etc). And for a photo, for example, to be visible on a page where you want to show it, that image needs to stay […]
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Writing Great Content – Useful Resources
The list of articles below all come from the Nielsen Norman Group. Everything these guys write is gold: it’s evidence-based, meaning it’s not just their opinions, but based on test of actual users and actual websites. But they also tell you enough to decide whether their results really apply to your situation. Look through all their Writing for the Web […]
Slideshow Images: Cropping to a particular size (aspect ratio)
If you have a slideshow on your site, you will usually find that you want to resize and/or crop images to fit that slideshow best. Some slideshow software will automatically crop images that are too large, but they generally just crop equally from top & bottom and/or left & right, which isn’t always ideal. Luckily, […]
A WordPress Veteran Explores Weebly
A current client of ours recently asked for advice about redoing their website, which runs on WordPress. In addition to wanting a new look and feel, the client also wanted to update the site to be mobile friendly. This client was asked by a member of the committee in charge of the site to consider switching to […]
Websites 101
When you first start thinking about setting up your own website, it’s easy to get confused about the different companies and services involved. We offer a brief introduction below; for a more thorough, step-by-step guide, see How to Start / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner’s A-Z Guide from thesitewizard.com, which offers many other helpful guides for […]
Writing for the web
We all understand that newspaper articles use a different kind of writing than novels do. So it’s easy enough to understand how writing content for the web might be a particular kind of writing. But take it a step further: just as there are many different kinds of books (novels, non-fiction, how-to’s) and newspapers (national […]