Do you find searching for and adding photos to WordPress a pain? Are you frustrated by the lack of image editing tools within WordPress? Then FotoPress might be the answer to your prayers! It bills itself as “the Photoshop for WordPress.” It’s also a mini-Google for finding the perfect image. In this post, I’ll take you through […]
Web Accessibility in the UK – True Facts [infographic]
I was recently asked in one of my blogging groups to create an infographic. (For my previous attempt at this, see 7 Random Facts about the World Wide Web). As part of the challenge, and in honour of World Usability Day yesterday, I have chosen to make my infographic on web accessibility. I’ve taken a […]
8 Good Reasons To Use Trello To Manage Web Projects
Does your project management look like this? Or have you struggled to find important client emails in your Inbox? I’ve been there, and it’s not pretty. I’ve become a real fan of Trello lately, and plan to use it for managing my future website projects. (Even the potential ones!) In a nutshell, Trello is like […]
Creating a more inclusive world at the RI World Congress
I attended a major conference last week, the RI World Congress. The conference is held every 4 years and covers a range of disability issues. This year I was lucky enough that it was held in my home city of Edinburgh. As someone interested in accessible and inclusive design, particularly for the Web, I was […]
How To Use Any Font With WordPress With Ease
A (brief) history of web typography Web designers used to be quite limited in font choice. It was recommended to use only web safe fonts – the small subset of fonts installed on both Windows and Mac computers. As Coffee Cup Software explained in their What is a web-safe font? post, that boiled down to only […]
How To Add Functions To Your WordPress Site Safely
What is a theme’s functions.php file? The functions.php file is a key part of any WordPress theme. It’s where the code runs that can do things like: set up the theme add widget areas register theme fonts add support for the WordPress Customizer add menu support It’s an essential file, and susceptible to breakage. Sometimes we […]
What’s the best free plugin to make a WordPress photo collage?
Following a question from someone in the Content Marketing Academy Membership Community about making a WordPress photo collage, I decided to investigate what plugins were on offer to do the job. I tested out 5 plugins, all free from WordPress.org. They were: Easy Image Collage Jetpack (Tiled Galleries Module) Collage Gallery H5P Wow Mood Board […]
The Amazing Disappearing & Reappearing Website Phone Numbers!
I was contacted this week by one of my clients, Jan Southern, with a strange problem. She’d just updated her site and added large hero images to some pages. Some white text was overlaid on the images, including her phone number. The issue was that the phone number didn’t show up properly on iPad and iPhone. […]
Accessibility Scotland: a new event for web accessibility professionals
Last Friday I attended the first Accessibility Scotland conference in Edinburgh. There were 7 speakers, all talking about different aspects of their work as web accessibility professionals. Here’s my review of the day. Mark Palmer Mark spoke about his 10 years in the accessibility field. In that time he’s seen the focus move from fear […]
How To Design A Frustrating Online Store Experience
The other day, I went to help my mum complete a transaction online. The objective was simple: buy an event ticket. It turned out to be far more complex than I imagined, and I soon ended up as frustrated as she did. Here’s my list of what went wrong, and how it could have been […]