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Uzma’s Quest : Thinking About Software Architecture
22 February 2020
Categories: Coding, Uzma's Quest
Looking at the software architecture of Uzma's Quest to create code that can more easily be built upon
Finding an Online Niche for Your Business
5 February 2020
Categories: Digital Marketing, Hints and Tips, SEO
In this post we’ll look at finding great terms to optimise your business website for, based on real search data from the SEM tool Ahrefs. Why this is important I […]
A Coder’s View of a Hacked WordPress Site
28 January 2020
Categories: Coding, Hints and Tips, Technical
My client got every web owners worst nightmare when she received this email from her hosters, telling her that her website had been taken offline for containing malicious files: They […]
WordPress Plugin Coding: Custom Dolly
18 January 2020
Custom Dolly is my first WordPress plugin. It extends the Hello Dolly plugin by allowing you to add the lyrics of any song you choose. In this post we’ll go […]
Creating Websites For Conversion
14 January 2020
Categories: Design, Digital Marketing, Hints and Tips
Most websites, especially small business websites, are poorly designed. That might not mean that they don’t look good (and I’m certainly not saying that great design isn’t crucial), but it […]
Adding Social Icons to Elementor Menu
9 January 2020
Categories: Coding, Design, Elementor, Hints and Tips
Elementor Pro is great, but one of the things it won’t let you do natively is add your social icons to the menu. We’re going to see how to do […]
Never trust a screenshot
3 January 2020
Categories: Hints and Tips
Fake screenshot alert! How to change content on a webpage in seconds, using nothing but the Chrome browser
97% Performance on Google’s Lighthouse Audit
24 December 2019
I reached 97% on desktops and 96% on mobiles on Google's Lighthouse Audit performance score. These are the steps I took to reach the top scores.
How to code a mobile menu with submenus for WordPress
24 December 2019
When coding a WordPress theme you’re going to need a mobile menu. The difficulty with a WordPress website is that the user might include nested submenus in their mobile menu. […]
Using a blog to improve your Google ranking
7 November 2019
Categories: Digital Marketing, Hints and Tips
After on-page SEO (see The 2 Steps to On-Page SEO ), the next most important factor in climbing the Google rankings is the number of inbound links to our page […]