Greg Falken
If your website is currently hosted by WordPress.com, you may by considering moving it to a self-hosted WordPress site (a.k.a. WordPress.org). In addition to their privacy concerns, many website owners reach a point where they want more control, flexibility, and ownership over their online presence.
I’ve been following the practice of choosing My Three Words at the beginning of the year for some time now. This year: Collaborate. Contribute. Equitable.
Presenting my 3 Words for 2023: Dig. Rejuvenate. Reveal. Read more about the My Three Words process and what these words mean for me.
My friend Bob makes cereal art for his wife every morning. He posts them on Facebook and graciously allowed me to share them here. I hope they brighten up your day.
For those who haven’t heard of it, Mastodon is a micro blogging app that happens to look and act a lot like Twitter. It’s gotten a lot of press (real press, like CNN and Fox News) ever since Elon Musk took over at Twitter. Since that time, Twitter has seen whiplash-inducing changes of policy, mass firings of employees, a sudden rise in identity hacking and defections of both users and advertisers. With Musk himself raising the possibility of bankruptcy, I thought it wise to hedge my bets and explore this alternative platform, even while not abandoning Twitter completely.
Along with Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy is one of the least visited pages on any website. And yet, putting the time and effort into creating one is an important step in making sure that both your customers and your business are protected. Almost every website is affected by consumer privacy laws both in the US and internationally, and the penalties that they can impose for noncompliance.
The email landscape has changed considerably in just the last few years in response to the continued rise of spam, malware and identity theft (phishing). In the past, most hosting companies have provided email services along with web hosting. More recently, some hosting companies have discontinued email services altogether, while others have spun them off into a separate service. When email and web hosting are combined, it’s important to be aware of the limitations of using the same platform for both services.
Providing “alternate text” for images and other visual elements goes back to the earliest days of the web, before Google was even a gleam in Larry and Sergy’s eyes. Way back in 1999, the W3C published its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, which included as Guideline #1: Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content.
In the WordPress world, everything beyond basic content management is controlled by plugins. These small software modules “plug in” to WordPress to enabled all kinds of features; everything from document management to e-commerce and lots more. In most cases, the problem isn’t finding a plugin, it’s selecting one from a multitude of choices (there are currently over 59,000 plugins in the WordPress.org repository). Here are a few tips to find the one that fits your needs.
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