It’s common for brands to offer downloadable content for users on their sites, either as a supplement to their existing content, or as a special offer in exchange for personal information (or in some cases, money). In any case, if you want your downloadable assets to be easily available, well-presented, and unobtrusive, there are a handful of best practices you’ll need to … [Read more...]
Why Web Development Skills are Becoming as Important as Online Content
There’s an interesting trend right now in online activities. Ever since the Internet came into its own, people have constantly declared that content is king. But more and more, the web development framework around the content is playing a vital role as well. In fact, at some point, how well the web development is executed may come to mean more than the content. In other … [Read more...]
17 Miscellaneous WordPress Plug-ins for 2011
Time to revise those WordPress plug-ins. WordPress is still the most common used publishing system by experts an amateurs alike. Which means also the most targeted by hackers, spam, bots, etc. I compiled a list of new and older, still popular and useful plug-ins for you to try out. Some plug-ings have been around since last year and this is the first time I come across them. … [Read more...]
WordPress Backup Options
With all the security breaches, hacking and DDoS happening this past year it's 100% clear that no matter how small your WordPress site, it needs to be backed-up. A lot of people rely on their hosting company to guarantee the safety of their website, but unless they are at fault you are the sole responsible one for your website data. The best practice is to always keep a … [Read more...]
The Best WordPress Slideshow and Gallery Plug-ins
Even though WordPress has its own build in gallery function it isn't very fancy. Unless you have good coding skills to modify the gallery your best option is a gallery or slideshow plug-in. The nicest plug-ins are build with jQuery making them very slick and dynamic. A couple of the galleries even support more formats than just photos, like flash files, video's and audio. I … [Read more...]
