The WordPress core is made with 4 main programming languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. With those programming languages alone you can create anything you can dream of, anything from your simple bakery website to a comprehensive e-commerce platform like Amazon. WordPress being open-source, technically anything is possible to make with WordPress. However, there are […]
The majority of WordPress plugins are free to download and use directly from the WordPress plugin store. Some plugins have premium paid versions that offer more features than the standard free version. More rarely, plugins can also be strictly only-paid and offer no free version like WPBakery. However, the feature of using plugins requires a […]
What are duplicate landing pages? If you lived in Toronto, Canada and you were searching for a plumber, what do you type into Google? “Plumbers in Toronto” obviously! This is the case with a lot of businesses, where users seek out local, close-to-home businesses for their convenience and sometimes just to support a local business. […]
The free version of Smush provides you an easy way to compress your images automatically without having to individually do it yourself. However, with the free version, Smush only compresses 50 images per click, which means it can be annoying to optimize your images if you have over 300 of them. Thankfully, there is a […]
Important: These themes have been hand-picked by a professional web developer/designer who knows their sh*t. These themes aren’t randomly pulled from Google search results – they are selectively picked and highlighted because they deserve to be! Not just any WordPress theme will work when you’re trying to make your Journalism Portfolio stand out, As a […]
It only makes you want to increase the speed of your WordPress site. It improves very important things like user experience and SEO most notably. Some may tackle the issue of a slow website by throwing more plugins into the mix, which is rarely an absolute solution. Let’s discuss how to improve your website speed […]
Introduction WordPress is big and has a lot to it. I don’t believe WordPress is something that can be learned in a day or so because theirs so much to cover. This blog post is an overview of the notable things that make WordPress what it is, from A to Z. Admin Bar The WordPress […]
I see it time and time again with UI and web design – people love centering, justifying, and right aligning text. People think this may make their text look pretty or my favourite forbidden word in web design, clean. But in reality, this is another example of people sacrificing user experiencing (UX) for user interface […]
There can be many reasons why you could want to add video content to your website without the use of YouTube. Some reasons for hosting your video yourself may include: It can help keep all your content organized by housing it in one place Having an external resource being loaded onto your website like YouTube […]
What is a dynamic blog? A dynamic WordPress blog is a blog that changes or updates depending on the blog posts date, category, or even by random selection. A dynamic blog can make it more your website more engaging for returning users because it promotes finding new content each time they visit. Dynamic blog content […]
I'm The Website Architect - NOT Just another web developer from Toronto, Canada. I'm passionate about web design, WordPress, and anything UX related. My goal is to make the Internet a more beautiful and usable place, one design decision and website at a time.