It is a little known fact that, unlike WordPress, Moodle LMS does not resize the physical file when you upload an photo. This means that your beautiful 20 megapixel class photo is sent to the web browser even when it is displayed dozens of times smaller in a web browser. You may have experienced this…
Choosing the right file type for your web graphics is important. Not only do some of the file types support features you might want, but choosing the wrong file format can result in files that are larger than they need to be, which can seriously impact the speed and performance of your website. There are…
Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses don’t always have the financial resources to revamp their whole website to implement WCAG 2.0 Level AA standards. Compliance can take a fair amount of knowledge and effort however there are things that you can do on a day-to-day basis to improve the accessibility of your website. The crazy thing is, most if…
In Broken Links Part 1: Checking Tools for Your Website, we tool a look at a few tools to help you identify links that no longer work on your website. In Part 2, we will now go over some tips and techniques to help you repair these website links. So, you are having trouble figuring out…
Creating your first business website can be an intimidating task to many business owners with grand visions. The reality today is, many people will Google you to learn about your business before they consider handing anything more than a few dollars to you. You may have done this yourself (you may even be doing it…
There are few things more annoying to someone browsing the web than to click a link that doesn’t work. While building pages on your site, test each link to make sure it works each time you create a link. Even after you’re done, and especially if your site has links to other sites, check all…
Did you know? The World is Going Mobile… Tablets and Smart Phones are #1 and #2 fastest growing consumer electronic products Sales of web-enabled mobile devices far exceed desktop and laptop computers Smartphones shipments outpaced personal computers including tablets, laptops, netbooks and desktops for the first time in 2011 (IDG News Service) The Smartphone Market…
Does your web page take a very long time to show up the first time you open it in your browser? Does it even take more time on slower Internet connections? The problem might be the size of your image files or performance of the web servers. Why should you care? Customers don’t want to…
Multilingual Website If your website had content in more than one language, be sure to identify the default language of the page using the HTML tag itself. For example, if your page is in XHTML, you would use: <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”fr” lang=”fr”> If you are working in HTML5, you can drop the xmlns and xml:lang…
Where do you get your inspiration when writing articles for your newsletter, your blog or for publication on websites? Here are a few of my favourite content creation strategies you can use when you run out of ideas. Have you ever read an article and though to yourself “my clients/blog readers would love to know…