Everyone now understands the importance of having engaging, relevant content on their websites, and with more content the need to give more attention to typography becomes apparent. Pull-quotes are heavily used in traditional publishing but their use on the web is still pretty rare. Pull-quotes are key phrases, quotes or excerpts that are “pulled” from…
Guide to Styling Hyperlinks
Hyperlinks, or simply links, are what connect pages together to form websites, and ultimately websites together to form the web. Without them we simply wouldn’t be able to navigate from page to page, website to website. You most likely followed a link to this article; it’s one of those things you don’t even think about…
What’s the difference between WordPress Categories and Tags?
Most people getting started with WordPress have some difficulty understanding the difference between the categories and tags taxonomies. You know the feeling, you’ve written a great post, now which category box to tick? Do I need to tag this? If you’re working with a completely empty blog then you can try to work out all your categories and/or…
Improving WordPress search results pages
If you have a growing website then no matter how careful you are with organising your websites’ content there comes a time when adding search functionality becomes necessary. We were recently asked to add a search box to a clients WordPress powered website and set about making some improvements to enhance the users experience. Everyone…
Basic Website Usability Guide
Website usability – basic guidelines. It might sound like common sense really; I mean every website needs to be usable right? But there are still a lot of websites that fail basic usability guidelines by missing some simple obvious points. So read on for some simple tips to ensure your website is as usable as…