Today I had a go at setting up wprig. It is a development environment for making WordPress themes. I’m using it to try and update our church website. Here are some tips on how to set it up. This is very advanced – for WordPress Theme Coders.
Tag Archives: webdesign
Reflections on how Google rankings shape website content
I have now been running macintoshhowto.com for 10 years. Here is a graph of visitors over the last 10 years: You will notice that there are some turning points on the curve. Most of these changes correspond to Google changing their Page Rank algorithms.  For example macintoshhowto.com was slowly and steadily growing in popularity  until […]
How to view the html page source of a website in Safari
This is a bit of an advanced tip for web developers. Safari used to have a menu item called ‘View Page Source’. If you selected this you could see the HTML code of the website you were viewing. Â This option has been removed from recent versions of Safari but you can re-enable it by turning […]
How to test your website for different browsers
There are web applications that will allow you to preview what your website will look like on different browsers. You type in your website (e.g. macintoshhowto.com) and the site shows you what your website will look like in almost any browser you can think of. One such website is http://browsershots.org It’s free to use,  but there is […]
How to add a drop shadow to an image
Here’s how to use Pages to quickly add a drop-shadow to an image.  This is what it looks like:
How to take a screenshot on your mac
If you hold down the SHIFT and COMMAND Â key and then at the same time press the number 3, your mac will take a screenshot of your entire screen and save it as a .png (picture) file onto your desktop. Try it right now! Press SHIFT-COMMAND-3, you will hear a camera shutter style sound, and […]
How do I speed up my webpage?
Safari can tell you how many files your webpage needs to load, and how big they are. Here’s how.