WordPress
What is Alt Text and Why Should You Use It?
Alt text (alternative text) is the description of an image in words “behind the scenes” in the HTML code of a website. Here is how alt text will appear in HTML as shown in Yoast’s article Image SEO Alt Tag and Title Tag Optimization: In WordPress, you can find the alt text in the image…
Read MoreHow to Fix WordPress Problems
If your website is down or if you are having problems with your WordPress website, what do you do? Most likely, you contact your website developer and tell them you’re having a problem and ask them to troubleshoot and fix the problem. What does your website developer do after you contact them? Website Down Alerts…
Read MoreWhy We Use Beaver Builder to Create WordPress Websites
We use Beaver Builder to create nice looking, creative and user-friendly websites for clients. In 2015, we kept hearing great things about this front end page builder. At the time, we built child themes using the popular, well-coded Genesis framework. This worked well for us, and we grew accustomed to the widgetized front page and…
Read MoreNew Website Launch for the Friends of the Arlington Public Library
We are thrilled to share the new logo and website for the Friends of the Arlington Public Library. The Friends of the Arlington Public Library (FOAL) is a volunteer organization established to support the public library system in Arlington, Virginia. Their mission is to enable a strong, vibrant, engaged community using the libraries as a…
Read MoreHow To Edit WordPress in the New Gutenberg Editor
What is Gutenberg? If you haven’t logged into your website in a while and are preparing to write or edit in WordPress, you might notice some changes. Gutenberg is a take on a new editor for WordPress, which replaced the WordPress classic editor. It is named after Johannes Gutenberg, who invented a printing press over…
Read MoreFind Hidden Screen Options in Your WordPress Website Backend
WordPress is a powerful and versatile, open source content management system. Over 33% of all websites in the world are WordPress sites. For those who only use it to publish blog content, WordPress is easy to use. However, some confusing and “hidden” basic things, such as Screen Options, may take some getting used to when…
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