Site Origin has a great WordPress Theme called Vantage. The only drawback is the large buffer or margin at the top of the page. There's a lot of unused page space pushing critical content further down the page. The following CSS modification will fix this problem. You can adjust the padding (in pixels) to suite your … Continue reading Site Origin Vantage Theme Header Margin Fix
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Event Website Launch
There are some events that require a focused web presence, yet shouldn't require setting up an account with a hosting company. This is the purpose of TheEventInformation.com website. It's a preconfigured site, able to serve several events a year. The site morphs from one event to the next, yet retains the basic information from previously hosted … Continue reading Event Website Launch
University of Iowa Website Incorporates Exceptional Engaging Photography
Website Photography Considerations For websites to be engaging, they must include high quality photography that captivates the site visitor. The University of Iowa has recently moved toward a responsive website design that features a full width 1100x580 'slider' (slideshow) featured image collection. Selected photos from 24 August 2014 are shown below. There are a few … Continue reading University of Iowa Website Incorporates Exceptional Engaging Photography
WordPress.com New Editor
Summary WordPress.com is quietly rolling out a new editor in an effort to provide a simpler, more focused, and cleaner interface for content creation. The standard dashboard left column menu disappears so the writer can focus on only the necessary controls. Feedback from WordPress We received the following response from a Happiness Engineer at WordPress … Continue reading WordPress.com New Editor
Site Origin Influence Theme – Celebrating Over One Million Downloads
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WordPress.com User Roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Follower, Viewer
User roles determine the access level or permissions of a person authorized (invited by an Administrator) to use a WordPress.com site.SummaryAdministrator – nothing is off limitsEditor – has access to all posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, and links.Author – can write, upload photos to, edit, and publish their own posts.Contributor – has no publishing or uploading capability, but can … Continue reading WordPress.com User Roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Follower, Viewer
WordPress.org Self Hosted Site Broken Links Images Not Showing Possible Solution Jetpack Photon
If you've enabled JetPack in your self-hosted WordPress website, and the Photon component is enabled, you may see broken link errors where images should be. Solution: Dashboard > JetPack > Settings > Photon > Disable.
WordPress.com Momentary Outage on 15 April 2014
A momentary outage was observed with WordPress.com and websites hosted through their service. For a few minutes, the site was unavailable. This may be related to some updating that's been done recently across the entire WordPress platform (including self hosted sites). In recent days self hosted sites are being updated automatically to version 3.8.3 to … Continue reading WordPress.com Momentary Outage on 15 April 2014
Advice for those wanting a simple website
I'm often approached by people wanting to get started with a fairly basic website. Here's the general advice I offer... Although I create websites for people, my preferred role is that of a trainer and facilitator. As a website is created, hopefully I can train the site owner during the process. I want the site … Continue reading Advice for those wanting a simple website
WordPress.org Self-Hosted Website Setup Instructions
These instructions provide a guide to setting up a self hosted WordPress website. These instructions are abbreviated and assume some familiarity with WordPress. The process is broken into various phases. Phase 1 - Basic Setup Domain Name. If you are moving to a new host, one option is to purchase a domain name with an … Continue reading WordPress.org Self-Hosted Website Setup Instructions