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Back in February I put together a list of essential plugins for your Wordpress website or blog. Since then I’ve come across some additional plugins that I think would be useful to install and which I thought would be worth sharing.

When you’re building a website in Wordpress, you can customize just about anything – and the login screen is no exception to that. It doesn’t take much time to do, and it’s one of those little touches that are a big hit with your clients.

I promised in last week’s post about the NCAA conferences that I would take a look at the websites of all of the teams that received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. I’ve changed that slightly, so instead I want to show some of the best and worst websites of this year’s NCAA tournament [...]

From a usability standpoint, long forms with plain-text labels can be quite boring visually. One way to avoid this problem is to use icons within your input fields to visually indicate what the field is asking for. It’s a nice design touch that you as a designer can do to help make your forms a [...]

March in America is synonymous with college basketball. All 30 of the conferences in Division I college sports have a basketball tournament this week leading up the NCAA tournament, so in honor of  “championship week”, I thought it would be interesting to see what each conference’s website looked like.

Late last week Facebook announced some new changes to how their business pages look. I was skeptical at first about some of these changes, but now that I implemented them on Addicott Web’s Facebook page, I’m sold. What I want to do today is help people understand the business implications of these changes.

Bloggers know that commenting is vital for the long-term success of their blog, and I’m no exception to that. I’ve known that the comments area of my blog wasn’t as supportive of good commenting as it should have been, but I finally fixed that this week.

HTML forms are always a contentious subject in web design. As a designer, whether you like them or not, forms are important to understand -  especially so since how they are designed has important implications for whether they achieve your intended results.