Last month I wrote about five ways to make your website accessible. Given the growing importance of accessibility, I’d like to add more on this topic – and share some recent guidelines that will help to make sure your website is compliant with discrimination law. In the UK, following recent changes to the Equality Act … Read more
A few weeks ago on this blog, I talked about reasons why you should merge your blog and website. One of the reasons I gave for running a hybrid site was to give your website a ‘voice’ by adding a personal touch to enhance the corporate face of your website. Looking around at other websites … Read more
I have noticed a disturbing trend in recent months. I have developed the habit of holding reading material further and further away from my eyes. Threading a needle has become a time-consuming guessing game, and I now routinely resize text when reading online (using Control and the + key or ++ if I’m extra tired), … Read more
This week’s post will be a fairly short and sweet one. I decided to take my own advice from last week’s blog post and have now merged my blog and website. After many days and hours of editing, tweaking etc (on my part), and some serious, heavy-duty WordPress (WP) Thesis theme wizardry on the part of … Read more
Towards the end of last year, after one of my few visits to my main website, I had what seemed to me to be a revolutionary thought. What if I could do something to make my website more appealing? I had already dabbled with a few blogs – as both a passive consumer and an … Read more
Your web content includes all the information on your website or blog, and that content can be made available in a variety of forms: copy, images, document files (e.g. Word or PDF), audio or video. As more and more websites start offering video content, the question is, should we all follow the trend and start … Read more