The free OS X Yosemite update is available for download bringing new features to even your old Mac. We’ll outline six reasons you should install OS X Yosemite today.
After only a little trouble on the OS X
Yosemite release date this week, it’s time for many users to think about installing the OS X 10.10 update on their Mac.
Apple includes a number of exciting new features in the OS X Yosemite release that users will enjoy, including a new look and better connectivity between the iPhone, iPad and your Mac.
In this article, I have gathered a collection of 25 must-have tools and resources that will help you learn, do more and be more productive.
An amazing resource for high quality textured patterns. A lot of great artists have contributed there to create a collection of really sharp and versatile images. Oh, and browsing on their site is quite enjoyable as well.
Content management systems (CMS) provide an excellent way of producing websites that can be easily maintained, easily edited and worked on by a large set of developers from around the world.
One of the disadvantages of these CMS is that their code is publicly available, which makes it easier for the less desirable developers on the internet to find a way of trying to get into your sites code and do some even less desirable things.
Some common symptoms include:
Do you get a lot of traffic to your WordPress website but find that your bounce rate is high and conversions are low?
If so, it may be due to the fact that you need to speed up your website. If your web pages take more than a couple of seconds to load, users are likely to click off your website and access the content they need from one of your competitors instead.
Your WordPress websites page loading time will have a significant impact on its overall user experience. If the web page loading time is slow it will result in a poor user experience and may put off people from using your website. Slow page loading time can also negatively impact your websites search rankings, which can lead to a loss in traffic. If you think this may be happening to you, you will need to make changes and improvements to speed up your website.
As a webmaster looking to improve your website, it is likely that you have been informed numerous times that you need to have a responsive web design. Whilst this is true, it can be difficult to justify the price of a responsive web design, when you don’t really know what it means.
Whereas a web design for mobiles is limited to viewing on smartphones, a responsive web design is suitable for all devices. This means that the same website can be viewed on desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones, as well as any other devices that come out like smart glasses and watches! Responsive web design is both intelligent and flexible. Using clever CSS coding they can determine the device they are being viewed on so they can adjust and adapt for optimal viewing.
The fact that our attention span is shrinking due to social media has been reported in the news quite often over the last few years and it’s probably true. It’s apparently caused by our constant use of social media and our habit of absorbing information in sound bites. It means less of us have the patience to read longer text and as well as book sales suffering, we also suffer the loss of the pleasure of reading great works of literature. But from a website point of view it means that short attention span has to be taken into consideration: website copy, especially the first thing a visitor sees, needs to be short, direct and interesting from the start.
With all of the talk of online security lately, a particular message in my inbox caught my attention:
I want know about WordPress’ password encryption method; is it possible to change or replace it with another encryption method like MD5?
This is a heavy question, and rather than giving a simple yes/no answer, I want to supply a bit of detail regarding WordPress and passwords.
WordPress doesn’t ever store user passwords as plain text – I would highly suspect any that would. This is the primary reason why, if you lose your password, you need to reset it rather than just have WordPress email your password to you.
Of course you can only see those errors when you have set WP_DEBUG to true in your wp-config.php file.
Well, for example if you want to add a description to the navigation menu, so that it reads both the menu item name and the description of it. After all description is one of the features you can add if you open the Screen Options menu on the Appearance > Menus page in the WordPress Dashboard!
