You want your websites and applications to look good on as many desktops, tablets, and mobile browsers as possible. Websites built using Website Builders are already responsive, meaning they automatically adjust to any screen size. Many sites using WordPress are also responsive. Listed below are the browsers fully supported for responsive websites. In all cases, JavaScript, cookies, and TLS 1.2…
WordPress has a specific debug system and standardized code across the core, plugins, and themes to simplify the process of identifying PHP errors. Enabling this debug mode will cause all PHP errors and warnings to display, so you can find out what’s wrong with your site. WP_DEBUG is a PHP constant (a permanent global variable) that can be used to trigger…
Your online presence may be comprised of different elements, including your domain name, website or hosted content, and email address. But what is the difference between these elements and how does that impact your online presence? What is a Domain Name? A domain, such as hostingcolumn.com is a human-readable series of letters and numbers that translate into an Internet Protocol, or…
A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of servers that deliver content. The purpose of the CDN is to cache and more quickly serve static content based on the geographical location between the origin server (the server your site is hosted on) and the user making the request. This means when someone in Japan visits your website hosted in…
Contact Form 7 is a popular WordPress plugin that adds a contact form to your site. Through that form, your visitors can contact you directly from your site. You need to create and set up a contact form before you can add it to a page. Set up Contact Form 7 in WordPress Sign in to WordPress. Install and activate the Contact…
Creating a multilingual website can be confusing for website developers and users. Many questions and misconceptions get raised when first figuring out how to make your website multilingual, from technicalities to search engine optimization (SEO) and site management. What is a Multilingual Website? A multilingual website serves the same content in multiple languages. According to the region or browser preference…
A mobile-optimized website is more than a shrunken version of a traditional, desktop-friendly website. Mobile design not only suits a smaller screen, but it brings with it a number of other constraints as well. What is needed for the client impacts the approach we take to optimize the site for mobile. Features of mobile-optimized websites Here are a few traits…