How to make and run websites, with a special interest in WordPress
You want a website. Or you have a website, and there are some things you want to change.
Either way, and whether you are doing it yourself, or paying someone else to do it for you, it’s a good idea to do some planning. The more decisions you make upfront, the more efficient the build process or rebuild process will be.
Is writing for the web different from any other kind of writing?
The short answer is not really.
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If you run a blog, or do social media posting for yourself or for your company, you are often going to need a picture (or pictures) to illustrate your work.
If you are lucky, you may have access to images from your organisation’s photographers, or to an agency service.
But if you are not in a big organisation, you will need to find your picture somewhere else. Continue reading
No one becomes a journalist or a writer because they are interesting in coding.*
And yet, here we all are producing content for websites – which means that the text we produce will inevitably be underpinned by code.
For all the everyday things that we do to text for the web, the underlying language is something called HTML (or hypertext mark-up language).
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A short post today about my latest WordPress discovery: the Unsplash plugin.
I have written before of the challenge facing all content creators: the need for pictures to illustrate that content.
Why are there two different WordPress sites?
It has always seemed unnecessarily complicated to me. But there it is, there are two of them. They do different things and it helps to understand what those are, especially if you want to set up your own site using WordPress.
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A long time ago I did a four-day project management course at the Graduate School of Business in Cape Town. At the time I was on the staff at a large news website, and working with technical teams in various aspects of changing or launching websites. Project management was happening all around me.
