WP Tavern reported recently that WordPress Developers are organizing a community initiative to standardize common post types, taxonomies and meta data. Led by Justin Tadlock, popular WordPress developer and author of Professional WordPress Plugin Development, the goals of the community project are to name these common parts of WordPress to create a more stable and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes
| Tags: code standards, custom post types, taxonomies, wordpress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, wordpress post types, wordpress standards, WordPress Themes |
February 23, 2006 – 6:45 am
Yes, I know. Whine, whine. You can’t choose or tweak your own WordPress.com Theme. Heard it. Been there. Done that. Suffer for it, myself. While WordPress and most WordPress Themes come SEO ready out of the box, WordPress.com users can still use web standards and accessibility standards and SEO practices in your WordPress.com blog to […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, Web Wise, WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: how to use wordpress, site customization, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress design, wordpress help, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
September 25, 2005 – 10:01 am
While the majority of web pages are in English, moves by the UN and other international groups are working hard to change that. As more and more people speaking a variety of languages gain access to the Internet, foreign language and international issues will become more and more critical to the web page designer. There […]
September 24, 2005 – 7:03 am
Before you can get your web page or blog noticed, you have to make sure all the parts fit together and it works properly. Why? Well, in order to be seen, the page has to work. In other words, all the pieces and parts must be read by the user’s Internet browser, interpreted, and displayed […]
August 16, 2017 – 4:56 am
I was asked by a student in my WordPress class recently what defined a “professional blog,” one that met all the criteria for a well-designed, well-formed site that met web standards. What a marvelous question! We brainstormed all the elements that make up a web standard site, and mixed in personal preferences of the students […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blog design, blog design tips, blog exercises, branding, fonts, multimedia, professional site, readability, site design, site design tips, Usability, video, Web Design, web design tips, web standards, whitespace |
August 10, 2017 – 10:13 am
For the past three to four years, WordPress.com users have been “experimenting” with the what is known as the “new” WordPress.com interface. A drag-and-drop-meets-wysiwymg interface (What You See is What You MIGHT Get), it is designed to make interaction with WordPress easier. I’m still waiting. What it continues to do is make my students and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom
| Tags: browser, browser redirects, browser scripts, edit post, edit post interface, greasemonkey, redirects, wordpress, WordPress classic interface, wordpress interface, WordPress Tips, wp-admin |
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DownThemAll! Firefox Extension is another tool for your blogging toolbox. As a reminder, most power bloggers use Firefox or Chrome web browsers. Not just because they are “better” in the terms of meeting web standards, but also because of their powerful extendable features. Browser extensions, add-ons, or plugins allow you to extend the features and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: blogging tips, blogging tools, browsers, chrome, download files, download images, download pictures, download web pages, downloading, downthemall, firefox, firefox add-ons, save web pages, web tools, web writing, Writing |
In this mini-series on adding policies to your WordPress site for Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, we’re going to look at the technical decisions you need to make on how to integrate these policies. The next follow-up articles will discuss how to write and format each of the four policies we’ll cover in this […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: content navigation, content organization, jump links, learn wordpress, legal, menus, navigation, pages, policies, site structure, widgets, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress pages, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 22, 2016 – 4:07 am
I’ve just finished five years of teaching non-stop college and community education workshops and programs on WordPress for beginners, novices, experts, web designers, web developers, web programmers, and those who think they know everything but still realize they have a lot to learn. I love that last group as they are willing to learn and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blogging, blogging tips, wordpress advice, wordpress content, wordpress customization, wordpress help, wordpress installation, wordpress organization, wordpress setup, wordpress structure, WordPress Tips |
April 22, 2015 – 12:17 pm
In “9 Truths That Computer Programmers Know That Most People Don’t” by Macleod Sawyer, he quotes Ben Cherry and adds the following after: “Under the hood, most critical software you use every day (like Mac OS X, or Facebook) contains a terrifying number of hacks and shortcuts that happen to barely fit together into a […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes
| Tags: css, css resources, html, html resources, learn css, learn html, learn wordpress, web languages, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we’ve been exploring HTML and CSS basics to help you prepare for working with WordPress Themes coming soon. The information in these tutorials is essential for the WordPress user to learn for the most simple of tasks, from controlling how content displays in your posts to adding HTML […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: css, css position, css positioning, html, layout, learn wordpress, web page layout, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
In the next part of this mini-series for Lorelle’s WordPress School, we’re moving deeper into understanding how CSS works with HTML. These easy tutorials will give you the basic tools you need to learn to customize your WordPress site and work on WordPress Themes. We will be working more on the test HTML file and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes
| Tags: css, css styles, embedded css styles, html, html and css, html tags, inline css styles, learn wordpress, styles, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
In this mini-series for Lorelle’s WordPress School , we’re learning about HTML basics. I shared a little history and information to help you get started and gave you an HTML file that you will use in this tutorial. In the next tutorial, I covered some very basic HTML elements found in the test HTML file. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: blockquotes, call-to-action, css, html, html series, html tags, inline css, inline html styles, learn css, learn html, learn wordpress, pull-quotes, quotes, styling wordpress.com posts, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
April 12, 2015 – 10:18 am
The last lesson was the HTML and CSS Tutorial, another mini-series on Lorelle’s WordPress School. This is a very basic tutorial on HTML and CSS to prepare you for WordPress site customization and WordPress Themes. This tutorial in the series will help you understand the basics of an HTML tag, the architectural code wrapped around […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: css, html, html tags, learn wordpress, text editor, web browser, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |