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 users. The text in links should be meaningful; avoid writing “click here”. Links should be easily seen and easy to interact with. There shouldn’t be …
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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 hastily copied and pasted into a content management system (CMS) like SquareSpace or WordPress, funky things can happen. Cruft happens Pretty much all text on …
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…
Some webpages change very little. Others, like Career pages, change more regularly. Here is how we recommend to manage this content…
Publishing video to a third party service and then embedding that video on your website is generally the best way to go…
Sherwin makes some suggestions about how to visualize tags and categories in WordPress…
Doing quality publishing on the web means caring about how you use images. Here’s a few simple steps …
Uploading PDFs to your WordPress website for download is a good practice…
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.
If you’re publishing your first post in WordPress, the editor interface can be a little overwhelming. There are a lot of buttons…
Making a link is possibly one of the most important things you can do when publishing on the web. Seriously. The web, after all, is a web…
When publishing posts or pages with WordPress (WP), you are given the option of using the visual editor or the HTML editor …
WordPress makes a distinction between pages and posts when it comes to publishing content …
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 …
