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…
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….
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 the effects of color – How does color affects your target audience. (Know your audience!) There are many factors that contributes to how someone perceives color. Taking color choices into consideration when developing a web design/color sceme can contribute to succuss – or failure. Colors have different meaning in different cultures and religions, so…
HTML 5 How does HTML5 differ from HTML4, and what is important to know. Is it ready yet? http://www.ishtml5readyyet.com/ HTML5 tries to address the deficiencies of HTML 4 The new and changed codes provides better support for current web requirements, reducing the need for plugins. User Application support still varies, but what can be implemented…
There are many image gallery plug-ins for WordPress which provide a way of showing images in galleries and albums and use the version of the ‘lightbox’ overlay. NextGen Gallery by Alex Rabe – Download the NextGen Gallery plug in. (The current version needs PHP 5.2 to run) http://alexrabe.de/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/ Older versions can be downloaded which run…