After helping Nissanka via twitter on a little website issue when WordPress was hacked, here’s what he had to say about me on Linkedin… “Elliot was able to resolve many issues that i had with my website. He was knowledgeable and able to provide me quick solutions. He was clear in his communication and i […]
From a design and marketing point of view having well structured website headers with a good user interface (UI) is going to impart a good user experience (UX). A fundamental facet for the user is going to be the header of your website and that at least should include your branding, clean navigation, contact details and possibly some […]
There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some point and sync the database. Although very achievable it can be a pain in the proverbial, especially […]
WordPress can be a cost effective solution for small businesses with the famous 5 minute install, all the freely available and reasonably priced premium themes on the market. Premium themes are certainly cheap and are usually designed to do a particular job – being designed specifically to service a Magazine style, Food Recipe or Design Portfolio style web site. Usually these […]
No website is 100% secure if the hacker wants to gain access to the server lets face it with brute force its possible however with a little WordPress hacking protection we can do things to reduce the intrusion. As you may or may not already know from my previous post Security with WordPress config you […]
Security with WordPress can be something of an issue amongst web developers and to be honest I’ve learnt the hard way. After having several sites hacked a few years ago I made it somewhat of a mission to safeguard against issues like this happening again. I’m going to keep these posts short and sweet to […]
A professional website should always start with the ideas, you can then think about the structure. Using modern apps today we can really help the process. Last night I sat down with a client to workout how his website could be structured so, out came the iPad and using Idea Sketch, a neat little app downloadable […]
With WordPress becoming more and more popular as the chosen cms platform amongst developers, its seems obvious to white label and make the whole login process more bespoke. For the benefit of developers and WordPress users here is a bundle that you can use to customise for that same purpose. Most of these functions can […]
How long does it take before you out grow a website? Or things change so much that you inevitably have to change it anyway to bring it up to date. As with laptops and computers, if the operating system and the software are so up to date that they can’t cope with the demand then […]
What do you need to be a web designer? Well to be honest that’s a difficult question to answer because there are so many different areas of web design that to be good at all of them would be to be a jack of all trades and a master of none. One thing is certain […]
