Website Accessibilty is a Journey
A client of a fellow web designer recently received a letter citing that their website was not accessible – although the designer had approached the importance of accessibility with the client before building the website. The client had to defend themselves in court and possibly pay fines. This is not unusual and is happening more …
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Why WordPress
In May of 2003 the first version of WordPress was available. In the 19 years since, it has grown from a small blogging platform to a vast ecosystem that supports big business websites to thousands of theme and plugin developers as well as big and small web design agencies like Fresh Eggs. Just a few …
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Will Your website grow with your business?
WordPress is known for being scalable. Scalability in relationship to a website means the site can accommodate large amounts of traffic without loss of performance – provided that the site is well built on a good hosting environment with adequate resources. Scalability is one of Wordpress’ key features. WordPress powers over a third of the …
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How do you show key information on your website?
The power of custom post types for getting things noticed. Pages and posts are post types of WordPress and how WordPress organizes it’s content. There is also something called a custom post type that can be added with code or a plugin. Custom post types are a way to organize specific content in WordPress. Recipes …
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Is Your Website Vulnerable to Hacking?
John is a CPA and is much too busy to maintain his WordPress website. He hadn’t updated the software in at least 6 months. A client commented one day that John’s site had ads all over it. John had no idea that his site had been hacked. Hackers earn money from ad impressions and had …
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Would you know If Your Website was Down?
8 hours 45 minutes 36 seconds yearly is the total downtime that a website may have on a server who guarantees 99.9% uptime. I don’t know about you but 8hrs a year seems like a lot when profitability is at stake. And those stats are just in regards to possible hosting issues. There are many …
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How does your website perform?
The #1 factor that influences a website’s performance the most is the hosting environment. 79% of consumers will avoid a website if it has performance issues. In the 1st year of my web design business I noticed that working on websites that were shared hosting on certain big hosting services was painstakingly slow work and …
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What’s a Footer?
Can viewers easily find important information on your website? The footer of a website is the area at the bottom of every page that has valuable information like policies, phone numbers, addresses and maybe an email sign-up form, just to name a few examples. Users intentionally scroll to the footer to find that information. So this area …
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Do Fonts Matter?
The body area of a webpage comes after the hero section (the top area that you first see). It’s the meat of a webpage and the page element with the most information. As with everything on a website, it’s important to make it easy on the viewer. So ornate fonts are best reserved for headlines …
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Does your website get A viewer’s attention in 3 seconds or less?
The hero section of a webpage is first thing someone sees and is the page’s most important area. It’s just under the navigation or main menu. The hero section is where you grab someone’s attention to keep reading. It’s important that the hero section have a clear concise statement about the business or webpage’s purpose …
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Web Design: Creative and Standardized….Can you have both?
The area of a webpage that contains the logo and page menu is called the header. Standardization of the header makes the website easier to use which means more pages are visited and viewers stay on the site longer. I usually put the header at the top of a website which is the most expected …
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Is your website setting your business apart from the competition?
Or does it make you look like everyone else? Being small a small business is an asset and one of a small business’s best differentiators. Many times a small business has a unique story. One of my client’s had a serious boating accident. During recovery she connected the dots between having a healthy mind and …
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