Making hyperlinks is a foundational skill in web publishing. Links have everything to do with usability, accessibility, search engine optimization, and readability.
Links should be simple and helpful to your… Read more “In general, hyperlinks should open in the same window”
Headings are like a table of contents in your pages and posts. They provide both visual and behind the scenes structure to your content. To provide this meaningful structure, though, your headings need to be properly employed...
Not everyone drafts their content directly in their web publishing content manager. Authors sometimes draft their content in Word documents, Google Docs or some other software.
When this content gets… Read more “How to avoid cruft in posts and pages”
Manual excerpts are an important part of your articles. They work mostly as short summaries. And if you get good at writing them, they will help your website…
Alternative text is necessary for good publishing. Images on a website can be really important content. They give context, shape meaning, and move readers. It is really important that images...
Feature images can be beautiful, improve reach and impact, and give meaning, improve clickiness, and add whimsy. But I don't want it to be an obstacle to publishing...
With the arrival of WordPress 3.1 there is a really awesome new bit of functionality for making links; particularly links that are internal to your site. I think users are going to like this.
The first thing you should know about having a WordPress site is that it's not easy to destroy it. We don't say this as a dare! But we want to encourage you ...
Once you've been assigned a user name, you can't change it without deleting it. But you can change the way your name presents publicly, in your profile settings ...