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Your website is the hub of your online presence
Today you can have multiple different web profiles and pages. Facebook and Twitter are only a couple of examples of platforms which you can use to solidify your online presence. Sometimes I see brands using mainly a Facebook page or Etsy sellers having their shop and profile as the main source of information. Using these services may seem as a good idea and a way to save money and other resources. There are several problems with this approach. For one there are lots of people who don't want to use certain services such as Facebook. Using your Facebook page as the main source of information e...
Anatomy of a website: Kauneustoimittajien yhdistys
The website of the association of Finnish beauty journalists was badly outdated. It had been built on WordPress but unfortunately any of it parts hadn't been updated in years. It was running on old version of WordPress and the theme looked old. It was time for a dust up. The original colouring which included pink and purple didn't fit the wishes of the current members of the association. Most of the basic content was already there, only some of the structure was to be changed. The members listing and advertisement section needed to be rebuilt. The original members listing didn't include phot...
Using sliders on websites
Browsing around websites, especially commercial kind, you are likely to see sliders, carousels, rotators. They are those areas which have usually images, sometimes text and the content rotates automatically. Sliders are most often used to promote the website owner's skills, services of the company or the products of a web store. I think sliders are a really bad idea and they are most often used for all the wrong reasons. Accessibility and usability issues As with any content that relies on images, sliders create issues with accessibility. Especially for people with any scale of blindness a...
Comment like a human
Every blog gets tons of spam comments daily basis. If not tons then a lot compared to the amount of real, non-spam comments. Due to this blogs have different methods of catching, reporting and clearing away the spam. There are bloggers who moderate all the comments and those of us who have automated spam filtering. Though the automation doesn't catch all the spam and sometimes filters ham, the real comments that for some reason seemed spammy. If your IP address and other information have been marked as a source of spam before all your comments get filtered as spam from there on. Depending on t...
A click inducing perfectly worded right length title
It's not only because of the web. Partially, but not completely. It's also because of the tabloids and other trashy "journalism". Additionally it's because everyone is so darned busy. Apparently most don't really read the content which they are sharing and engaging. All of this has created an obsession for the titles. The title is to be just the right length and filled with keywords. The title must be short and it must be long. The title cannot have a question mark because a headline which has a question mark in the end of it can be responded with no (though that's a stupid rule, bec...
Using Creative Commons photos on your blog
There are many ways to find photos online which you can use legally on your blog. I have listed sites which host free images. The most common licensing used for free photos are Creative Commons licenses. If the photo is licensed under CC0 aka public domain, they can be used without crediting the source. The public domain images are the most flexible, of course and you can find them from multiple legal and high quality sources. But using other CC licenses will widen your options. There are several different licenses and it may be a bit confusing to figure out how to use these photos. When...
Writing is scary
When I was a kid I had multiple diaries. Before getting my first computer the diaries were those pretty little books with locks. At some point I usually lost the key of the lock so I had to break in to my own diary. It wasn't very hard though, so not a big problem. When I got my first computer I started to write a diary with it. For all of my diaries I had big plans: I would write about my life every day and it would be as interesting to read as all the real and fictional published diaries I had ever read. And each time I had the same problems. The first problem was that I didn't ever feel lik...
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