The myth around cheap WordPress based websites

WordPress is free and simple.  That means that if you are tech savvy, have a webserver with both PHP and MySQL enabled and understand how to set the whole thing up you can have an online presence within minutes.  I know how to do it as I have done it many times. WordPress offers even […]

Subpage highlight in WordPress

When you have a set of pages that are subpages of a main page (e.g. the case of this website for a complementary health clinic) you may want an automated system that creates a highlight among its subpages. We used this to create a practitioners’ highlight page that, every time it gets loaded, shows a […]

Here comes the responsive website

This post introduces the concept of responsive websites and why you should ask for a responsive design when you next decide to update or redesign your company’s website. Once upon a time, during the prehistoric web-age, websites were optimised for one particular screen resolution; starting from the basic 800 x 600 in the mid 1990s, […]

Content Management Systems: the case against DIY

I see a large number of freelance developers and small agencies selling website designs based on bespoke, homemade, Content Management Systems (CMS).  In this post I am going to explain why buying one of these websites is, in principle, a bad investment and can have expensive repercussions on your business in the medium to long […]