Four Big Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Web Developer
Are you looking for a new website, or wanting yours to do a better job? If you’re ready to shop around, here are 4 questions to ask web developers before you decide which one is the right fit for your business.
Ribbet – Simple Image Editing for Windows
If you operate a website you often need to be able to crop and resize images. If you use a Mac, you have a wide range of excellent tools at your disposal, including the excellent ImageWell. But if you use Windows, it ain’t that easy. It is web based (and free), you simply go to […]
Distraction Free Writing with WordPress
Adding relevant, informative content to your website is an excellent way to increase your authority for your readers, and for search engines. As true as that statement is, most of us find putting words on a page challenging. WordPress now offers a feature that removes at least one of the possible distractions when you want […]
50% off ImageWell
Up until September 14th 2011 you can get 50% off ImageWell Version 3. This is a great little image editor for the Mac, the perfect companion for anyone who works with a WordPress website. Use it to quickly resize (file size and dimensions) or crop images before uploading them to your site. Apart from being […]
WordPress and EXIF, IPTC and XMP Metadata in images
If you are a photographer and uploading some of your photographs to the web, you may be interested in how WordPress handles EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata. Metadata is information about an image, and can be included in JPEG image files. EXIF metadata is information about the image recorded directly from the camera – for […]
Safari4 / WordPress pop up window bug
I’ve been using the Safari4 beta since it first came out and it is brilliant. Mainly because it is just so damn fast. But if you use WordPress you may have come across a very annoying bug. If you use the WordPress Visual Editor, whenever you try to create a link (or do anything that […]
Avoiding glitches when upgrading WordPress
WordPress 2.7 has added some new features that help automate the upgrade process for the core WordPress files as well as plugins (which got a 1 click update previously). These are handy features. We do WordPress upgrades for a lot of clients, and to avoid upgrade glitches here are some things that are useful to […]
Showing the current year in your Footer – a new shortcode
While a copyright statement in the footer of your website is not strictly required to have copyright protection, it can stop someone claiming in their defence that they didn’t know. When showing a copyright statement, you should show the Copyright symbol followed by the first date of publication (to the current date, if your site […]
The Most Important Part of Your Website
When business owners head out to buy a website, they often don’t understand what is important and what is not. That isn’t surprising – there is no one size fits all approach to running a business online, and there are so many different tools and techniques it can be overwhelming. Mike Moran, in his post […]
How to make your own website
A lot of businesses want their own website, but have put it off because they don’t know how. At OM4 we have put together a system that allows you to create your own website quickly and easily. Importantly, when you have created your site you can: update your own content – add new pages, add […]