Category: Web Design
September 21st, 2018 Posted in Web Design, Web Development, WooCommerce, WordPress
Ecommerce Enlightenment ebook now available
I’ve recently published my first ebook called Ecommerce Enlightenment. It covers how to plan, develop and market ecommerce websites and is based on ten years of experience building these websites for clients. Who Is This Book For? If you’re thinking of setting up an ecommerce website, this book is for you. It takes you through […]
July 5th, 2017 Posted in Web Design, Web Development, WordPress
Lazy loading sliders and Google PageSpeed render blocking issue
Love them or hate them, sliders appear on many websites. Many clients ask for them so we use them a lot on the WordPress sites we build. Using the Advanced Custom Fields Repeater field, we can make the banners editable for clients too. All good, aside from the file size of using multiple large images. […]
March 18th, 2017 Posted in Business, Web Design
Give website users what they want
I’ve lost track of the number of websites I’ve been on that won’t give me the information I am looking for. I see this as being one of two reasons – either lack of user centric design (don’t know what people want), or trying to hide the info on purpose (hidden agenda). Lack of user […]
May 25th, 2016 Posted in Business, Computer, Web Design, Web Development, WordPress
Google Pagespeed tweaks for WordPress
Site speed is now an important signal of site quality to Google and our SEO guy has started running sites through the Google Pagespeed tool when assessing sites for clients. This usually throws up the same issues with WordPress sites and I’ve made some notes on how to fix these. With our own server we […]
September 10th, 2014 Posted in Computer, Web Design, Web Development
WooCommerce problems saving products with lots of variations
A client recently added a product with over 100 variations to their WordPress/WooCommerce site. The product seemed to save OK with no errors, but seemed to be missing some of the variations when viewed on the front end of the site. Long story short, it was down to a PHP variable in PHP 5.4 that […]
Watch out for caching on one.com servers
I’ve been working on some client sites hosted on one.com recently and hit a frustrating issue. Whatever changes I made to the CSS or PHP files, nothing changed on the live site. After much checking of account details, FTP logins and that I was actually working on the right site (yes that has happened before!) […]