How to make your WordPress website secure
Unfortunately, we live in an age where website hacking is prevalent. Hackers don’t discriminate – whether you have a large multinational company website, or a small personal blog, you are at risk of your website being compromised. This can, understandably, be scary. If you don’t know when and how a hacker is going to attack […]
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A new website for vegan cook and yogi, Karo Tak
I want to share with you a new website I developed for Karo Tak. Karo is a vegan cook, Jivamukti yoga teacher, and activist living in Portugal. Karo’s old website had a lot of information on it, and the design was cluttered and overwhelming. The website wasn’t structured in the most simple way, and it […]
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Ask a SuperGeek: What is CSS?
With WP SuperGeek, one of my missions is to demystify how WordPress and website work, so nontechnical people can grasp technical concepts. I feel that it’s important to have an understanding of how your website works, even if you don’t want to change any of the code yourself. With that in mind, for this Ask […]
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How to use cool and interesting fonts on your website
When building a website, font choice is one of those things that can be a total time suck. Cycling through all the various permutations of typeface for each element of your website, it’s all too easy to get stuck on the question of bold vs italic, from Amatic to Zapfino. I’d like to demystify some […]
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How to sell products on a WordPress website
The ease and low overhead of starting an online store is a wonderful feature of our current digital world. It’s understandable that so many people want to offer products for sale on their own website, where they have control over the content and purchase process. Not to mention, selling on your own website helps keep […]
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How to create a website for charity
I want to share with you a website project I recently completed. Mahboba’s Promise, an Australian non-profit organisation dedicated to the women and children of Afghanistan, needed a new website. I’ve have been sponsoring an orphan through the organisation for several years, so I knew this was an effective extension of my involvement. No matter how much I sometimes struggle […]
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Ask a SuperGeek: What is HTML?
I often come across people who are completely baffled about the languages and terminology used online. HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP… what are all these things? It’s totally understandable that many non-technical people struggle with coding languages. After all, these are complex languages, and require time and dedication to learn. I’m a firm believer that not […]
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How to use the WordPress app to manage multiple websites
If you only have one WordPress site, it’s quite straightforward to manage it. Log in to the dashboard in your browser, or in the browser on your smartphone, and away you go. However, it’s quite likely that you are, or will be, managing multiple WordPress websites, making logging in and out significantly more cumbersome. The […]
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How to set up free contact forms on your WordPress website
Every WordPress website I’ve worked on has required me to set up forms. Often it’s just a simple contact form, but things can definitely get a lot more complicated than that. You might have forms to sign up to be a volunteer, or to make a payment, or to download a file. You might want […]
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