Hide Those Email Addresses from the Spammers! This post discusses two concepts: A: For viewer convenience, when you absolutely must have a ‘mailto:..’ email link visible on your website B: Remove all email addresses and use forms only A: email addresses on website, how to protect them? If your email address is visible on a website, then it…
“If you are collecting ANY sensitive information on your website (including email and password), then you need to be secure. One of the best ways to do that is to enable HTTPS, also known as SSL (secure socket layers), so that any information going to and from your server is automatically encrypted. The prevents hackers…
Setting up Google Analytics and Google Search Console. After a new or redesigned website is completed, the next step is to set up Google’s free tracking (Analytics) and site submissions (Search Console) for the site. Analytics gathers and process site statistics and data. Huge amount of data and statistics are made available to the site owner….
Recently the DACS website was “hacked”. A rogue script was inserted into the header of the pages. Several steps were taken to sanitize the WordPress installation and this fixed the problem – temporarily. However, security is an ongoing battle, and new threats and hacks appear all the time. The security breach was detected by the…
Once you’ve decided to use WordPress to run your new website, and once you’ve gone through the “5 Minute Install”, what comes next? When you first login to your new WordPress admin area, you enter the default bare-bones set up, with the (this years) default theme. Is this going to work for you, or do…
WordPress uses “themes” to display the content of the database in a user-friendly and attractive interface in the browser. Deciding which theme to use may be determined by the site requirements, some themes have additional features that may be required – or not. Don’t use a theme with all the Bells & Whistles if you don’t need those…
After a winter hiatus, the DACS Web Design workshop/SIG started up again on April 19, 2016. At this meeting we focused on a website developed by Andy Woodruff for Sofia Chiarandini, a young musician with many talents. http://www.sofiachiarandini.com/. Andy presented a description of the steps he took to get the site up and running. Hosted on dreamhost.com,…
Thoughts about AdWords – how does it work? PPC = Pay Per Click. Everytime someone clicks on your ad, you pay a fee according to several variables. But what do you pay, how do you decide how much you’re willing to pay, and how likely is it someone will actually follow through and purchase the…
Getting your site to appear on the first page of a Google search results page (“SERP”) is not easy. “Search Engine Optimizing” for organic results needs to be just right for your website and takes a lot of custom tweaking. If first-page visibility is critical it may be time to start using the fee-based Google…
Every website has navigation links to access all the content and information presented within a site. What is the best way to plan a menu structure to be most efficient? Let’s take a look at ways to organize and design navigation priorities. WordPress offers easy navigation tools, and the theme will determine how menu(s) are…