Glass Mountains
What will come after WordPress? And is this something that businesses who use WordPress, and agencies who specialise in it (like us!) need to worry about? Like any business, your attention is drawn in many different directions: There is the…
I don’t normally do an end of year post but boy, if you were ever going to do one, this is the year! Firstly, you can’t talk about the year without being thankful for coming through it relatively unscathed, and…
In this photo we see (from left to right), my Aunty Pauline, Aunty Ivy, and then my grandma (Aline) on the right holding hands with my mum’s brother, Glyn. My mum is the bump in my Grandma’s belly when they…
When we are designing a website for a client, I try to always keep a sharp focus on the client’s target audience(s) – the people to whom the website needs to engage with – as that is the star we…
It’s not often then I visit a website, especially on mobile, which really turns my head. But that’s exactly what happened when I visited https://fivethirtyeight.com/. Above is the desktop view but, as I say, I first visited it on my…
I ordered some take out food recently, I was time-pressed with the kids and ordering beforehand, ready for pick up, just made sense. The online ordering experience was really, really poor. When I first started in the web, many things…
I’ve just got back from being away with my kids in West Wales and, as usual, the brain never fully switches off from business, and I thought I’d come back and blog about what I’ve been mulling: the challenge for…
As you know, WordPress is a continually shifting seascape of software with everything needing updating pretty regularly; whether that’s plugins, themes, or indeed the core of WordPress itself. WordPress 5.5 has just come out and you may have seen this…
If you don’t keep a close eye on your website, over time, it’ll drift. Not a huge amount each day, and if you’re not paying attention, you won’t notice at first. But drifting it is. Why? With websites, what typically…
The word ‘WordPress‘ can actually mean different things in different contexts so it’s worth spending a little time digging into that a little. WordPress WordPress itself is the open-source content management publishing platform. It is a software application written in…
In this video, I to talk through some of the reasoning behind our upcoming homepage redesign. Now ordinarily I would write a wordy blog post here but in this instance, I think a video makes more sense (and it’s easier…
I wrote my very first blog nearly 20 years ago – reflecting back on that post, what can I learn from it? At the time I was doing lots of website development and I needed to run many different platforms…