weblines

I enjoy developing websites.  I enjoy communicating with people.  I want to see how quickly I can get a website up and running, looking good, including various information pages, blog support, with security and technical issues handled.  And anything else I might think of. And then I can offer that service to people. ...

Here's what I needed to start with:- Domain name and hosting. Well, that's easy, hosting is with my usual host icdsoft.com (great value, all the features and space small organisations might need at a great price), who can also register a domain name for you.  For country level domain ...

It's neat to keep all of the WordPress files in their own directory.  In particular, it adds to security to store the files in an unexpectedly named subdirectory (not wordpress but something a hacker is unlikely to guess).  However you might actually want the pages to appear in the root directory, as ...

Get the look right.  Hopefully you have some kind of look - colours, fonts - in mind and ideally a header image, even a logo.  Select a likely theme as a basis.  See Using Themes and Theme Development for reference. Work on the style.css and header.php and footer.php files to ...

These are the Plugins which I think will be most useful for my "typical" website. Maintenance mode - a handy option which allows you to display a polite "website unavailable" message to visitors, while still allowing signed-in administrators access to view the website. Visualize Advanced Features - ...