December 19, 2008 – 5:02 am
By Amir Helzer of ICanLocalize In Building a Tourist Community Website With WordPress: Content Rules, I described how our new tourist community website, Baripedia, has made the decision to hire a writing professional to rewrite and edit all the content on our site to make it professional, web-friendly, SEO-friendly, and easy to read. My decisions […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blog building, blog development, blog navigation, blog tips, how to use wordpress, tourism, tourism blog, tourist blog, Usability, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog — Condensed from Dozens of Bloggers’ Experiences is a great step-by-step guide on how to improve the usability of your blog, and improve your visitor’s experience. I’m particularly fond of the About Page point. 😉 But I also have long been a fan of “Archive by Topic Not Date” […]
September 1, 2006 – 5:30 am
In “Usability Isn’t Expensive. It’s Practical. Usability is Useful.”, I explained the differences, and similarities between accessibility and usability: Accessibility is the development of a website or blog to be accessible to everyone. This means that the design must meet web standards and pass a range of validation tests in order to be compliant with […]
Taking a few notes from a recent article I wrote on Usability Isn’t Expensive. It’s Practical. Usability is Useful., Abhijit Nadgouda @ iface decided to take his WordPress.com blog, a blog with no control over the look of the WordPress Theme or any core programming files, WordPress Plugins, or templates, and put into practice what […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Tips
| Tags: how to use wordpress, site customization, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress design, wordpress help, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 21, 2006 – 6:36 am
456 Berea Street tackles “Usability Testing Without a Budget” is a prime example and explanation defending usability. It doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, it’s practical. It’s the difference between a successful, and potentially money making website, and a dud. The truth is, Usability is useful. And worth it. Even larger projects can often […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging, Web Design, Web Wise, WordPress
| Tags: how to use wordpress, site customization, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress design, wordpress help, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
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 |
January 16, 2015 – 2:08 pm
DISCOUNT: Lorelle is offering her popular site reviews for 50% off during 2015 as part of her WordPress School year-long project teaching the basics of WordPress. The discount code is found in the introduction materials. Lorelle VanFossen offers three levels of site reviews, specifically for WordPress sites. The prices are the starting prices for the […]
September 29, 2014 – 4:35 am
In 2012 and 2013, I did extensive research for the grant program to develop and rewrite the Web Developer degree program at Clark College. This research included an analysis of current and future job opportunities for students graduating with that degree with a solid understanding of WordPress. Now that the program has completed its first […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Classes, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: clark college, education, jobs, web content, Web Design, web development, web practitioner, web writing, wordpress, wordpress classes, wordpress education, wordpress jobs, WordPress News, wordpress training |
How long are your paragraphs? Have you measured them lately? One of the telling differences between traditional writing and writing for the web is the length of the paragraph. Look at the example below. Which is easier to read? On the left, the paragraphs are huge, long blocks of text. On the right, the paragraphs […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: blog writing, blogging tips, edit, how to blog, paragraph length, paragraphs, web writing, writing for the web, writing tips |
April 16, 2013 – 10:36 am
I will be teaching the WordPress I Introduction course at Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education starting Saturdays, April 27 – July 13, 2013, 9am – noon, in Vancouver, Washington, just across the river from the Airport at the Columbia Tech Center. What a great way to get to learn about how WordPress works without […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Announcements, WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News
| Tags: clark college, clark college continuing ed, college, continuing ed, courses, education, how to use wordpress, learn wordpress, learning, wordpress, wordpress class, wordpress classes, wordpress college, wordpress course, WordPress News |
Mr. Louis Vuitton just sent me a message in my blog comments I’d like to share with you. I share this touching message because it is highly educational when it comes to the art of spam comments, and serves to remind us of why we love having Akismet, the best comment spam fighter, on our […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: akismet, comment spam, comments, evil, spam, spam comments, wordpress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips |
September 5, 2012 – 4:45 am
Before you check out your next WordPress shopping cart or ecommerce WordPress Plugin, you need to read this. In April 2011, Smashing Magazine published “Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design” in their UX (User Experience) column exploring what they called the “harsh reality” of e-commerce websites. According to recent e-commerce studies, at least 59.8% of […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips
| Tags: carts, e-commerce, ecommerce, shopping carts, Usability, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress carts, wordpress ecommerce, WordPress News, wordpress orders, WordPress Plugins, wordpress shopping carts |
Webvisions is in Portland, Oregon, May 16-18, 2012, and I’ll be there again this year leading an awesome panel of WordPress Theme designers and developers, and I need your help. For over eleven years, Webvisions has been the go to conference for exploring the future of design, content creation, user experience, and business strategies on […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blogging conference, conference, how to use wordpress, pdx, pdx event, web conference, web tech conference, web technology, web technology conference, Webvisions, wordpress, wordpress designs, wordpress development, wordpress event, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress panel, wordpress theme designers, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 6, 2012 – 9:48 pm
What makes you trust this site? What makes you trust me? What makes you trust any website you visit? What is it about the site that earns your trust? I’ve asked this question at most of the conferences and keynotes I’ve given over the past seven years: What makes you not trust a website? The […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: about page, bio, blog clutter, blogging tips, business blog, business website, can you be trusted, can your site be trusted, clutter, corporate blog, corporate website, google, how to blog, prove it, prove it campaign, proveit, resume, search engines, seo, transparency, trust, trust rank, trust triggers, trustrank, trustworthy, Web Design, web development, web writing |
November 28, 2011 – 4:42 pm
The WordPress development and UI team put a lot of work into WordPress comments. Did you know there are 18 features to a single WordPress comment not counting the comment content itself? Rarely do we stop to consider these powerful features in WordPress, so let’s take time now to understand all the different features and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: akismet, blog comments, bulk edit, comment spam, comments, how to comment, how to stop comment spam, how to use wordpress, pings, reply to comments, spam, stop comment spam, trackbacks, wordpress, wordpress comments, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
The Secret Recipe of Comment Spam Comments
Mr. Louis Vuitton just sent me a message in my blog comments I’d like to share with you. I share this touching message because it is highly educational when it comes to the art of spam comments, and serves to remind us of why we love having Akismet, the best comment spam fighter, on our […]