The State of the Web: Making the Web More Accessible [Video]

Seated in chairs, Rick Viscomi and Nektarios Paisios discuss web accessibility.

When you create an accessible website using best practices for design, development, and content, your website provides a great user experience for everyone.

Accessible websites are a good business practice.

You’ll interact with more website visitors, customers, and clients when they can easily access content on your website.

But what happens when your site isn’t accessible to everyone?

… you may have a fast website with the best content, but it’s all for nothing if people can’t actually use it.

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Photo of the Week: Great Lakes Freighter Celebrates the Holidays

copper and white freighter on the Detroit River, with a Christmas tree on the center of the barge.

Great Lakes freighters pass by Belle Isle State Park, an island in the Detroit River north of downtown Detroit, regularly as they deliver raw materials to ports on the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway. But it’s not often you see a Great Lakes freighter celebrating the holiday season with a Christmas tree onboard, as… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Great Lakes Freighter Celebrates the Holidays

Easy WP Guide Released for WordPress 5.0

Easy WP Guide, an simple easy to read WordPress manual

Woohoo! One of my favorite resources for learning to manage content on your WordPress site, Easy WP Guide WordPress Manual was released today for WordPress 5.0, updated with info about using the new editor.

Code named Gutenberg while it was in testing, the new Block Editor for WordPress 5.0 is a completely different method for writing, updating, and managing content.

The goal for the new editor was to be more flexible and offer an easier way for WordPress users to add rich media, without knowing how to code.

And with the change to the new Block Editor, there was a big change in how to add content.

Resulting in a complete rewrite by Anthony Hortin, the author of Easy WP Guide.

What’s Inside Easy WP Guide for 5.0

You’ll find 60+ new pages in Easy WP Guide describing the steps to edit content in WordPress 5.0, along with new screenshots. Continue reading Easy WP Guide Released for WordPress 5.0