Category: Development
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Keeping Your Website’s Images Accessible
There are many ways to add images to your website, and some ways are better than others. Images on your website have both SEO and accessibility considerations. Can a screen reader read your image and communicate any important information it contains? Does a search engine know what this is an image of, and if it…
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Adding a Gravity Forms PayPal Continue URL
Just Get the Plugin Gravity Forms is my go-to plugin for any form-related tasks on WordPress. It does everything. Well, almost everything. Recently, I leveraged it to create an online signup form for Camas Swale Farm’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. If you aren’t familiar with CSAs, it’s a way for people to buy into a local farm. Their…
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Fix My Slow Website! Part 2: Optimizing Images
This is part 2 in my series on slow websites, what causes them, and how to fix them. Read part 1 here. Big images are all the rage in web right now. Seems like you can’t turn around without finding high-res hero images and videos. And there’s nothing wrong with these. They generally look great and,…
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Fix My Slow Website! Part 1: Why is my Website Slow?
This is part 1 in my series on slow websites, what causes them, and how to fix them If you ever review a job board for web developers, you’ll see many variations on “my WordPress site is slow, what do I do?” I have got 6 websites. The load speed is very slow. Looking for…
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Add Google Fonts to the Divi customizer
Divi is a powerful WordPress theme and page builder from Elegant Themes that allows folks like me to quickly generate modern and professional designs when a custom job just isn’t justified. It’s one of the most popular theme solutions for WordPress out there and offers a lot of customization options. Out of the box, Divi…
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Getting the most out of Bootstrap, Part 2: Efficiency!
Part 1 of this 2-part series covered compiling CSS extension languages like Sass or LESS. If you haven’t read part 1 and aren’t comfortable with that concept, you’ll want to start there. Rather, if you’re already a pro about compiling your Sass or LESS and want to know how you can start using CSS extension…
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Getting the most out of Bootstrap, Part 1: Compiling your own CSS
Bootstrap is an extremely popular CSS framework. It offers a responsive grid system and is highly customizable. That being said, I run into a lot of folks who aren’t using it to its full potential. A lot of folks aren’t customizing it effectively for their own projects, and some are using a lot more of…
