Category: Web Knowledge

Recently this very website experiences the dreaded Google Fred Penalty (not once but twice!) and the traffic was down by 90% in the most serious case. This was devastating to this website which starts out as a place to share my knowledge and thoughts about web development and experience in...

Recent researches have found that the speed of loading a website affects how likely visitors will continue to browse it and the conversion rate.  Up to 40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load. Lots of efforts will need to be put on reducing the size and respond...

Introduction: If you would like to customize the functions or the style of a WordPress theme, it is highly recommended to create a WordPress child theme and edit the files of the child theme instead of the original theme files so that any updates to the original theme will not...

Introduction: You have launched your website several days ago but you still could not find your website in Google search. You can access it by typing the domain in the URL bar. What’s wrong? It might by your robots.txt. But first, you should check whether your website has been indexed by...

Summary: From time to time, it might be wise to use the ahref tag to insert an HTML email link inside the web page for visitors to compose and send emails to the email addresses specified on the page instead of a dedicated contact form. Besides the mailto: action which specifies the...

Introduction: When creating a new blog or personal website, it is natural to find the idea of free WordPress hosting very attractive. Yet the truth is “you get what you pay for (usually)”. It is expensive to maintain the web servers and internet connection. Even WordPress advises against free hosting. Why would...

Introduction: Recently a website of mine suddenly disappears from Google search result pages. I followed a course of actions to find out the possible causes and make changes to the website with the hope to get out of the Google penalty. Today, the website suddenly resurfaces with the original search result...

Introduction: Out of the box, support for SEO (search engine optimization) of WordPress is poor. With the help of WordPress SEO like Yoast WordPress SEO, the WordPress website can be configured to behave in a search engine friendly way. However, custom tweaking is required for WordPress pagination in order to avoid...

Introduction: There are two different ways to get free web hosting. One simple approach is to find a free service by a web hosting company, but you will have to be very careful here as you might have to pay much more at the end of the day. The other...

Introduction: This is my personal story of how to be a web developer. I transform myself from a graphic designer to a web developer and designer (a.k.a. full-stack web developer). It is a long and difficult journey that requires much determination and self discipline. But the result is very fruitful....

Introduction: With the advancement of technology like WordPress, building your own website is pretty easy nowadays. It is often advisable to build a website using your name as the domain name and turn that website into your digital resume to accelerate your career development. The followings are the top 10 reasons...

Introduction: This tutorial will help you to build your own website including personal and SME websites in 3 easy-to-follow steps, namely: 1) sign up for a domain and hosting, 2) install WordPress, 3) add a few pages of contents. This website creation tutorial is intended for learners with little or no...

Introduction: WordPress is renowned for its ease of use and abundance of free resources found on the internet. If you are new to creating websites, 99% of time you would be recommended to set up a WordPress powered website. The very first thing to consider when setting up a website is...

Introduction: From time to time, WordPress may automatically log you out of the admin status and you will need to log in again to edit the website. However, many websites nowadays do not put the login link on every page of the website. And you are at a loss of...

Summary: “Bounce rate” in Google Analytics is gold standard for measuring the engagement of visitor on your website. Yet it has one major flaw – it does not take into account whether the visitor has actually read the content of the landing page. The Adjusted Bounce Rate (ABR) comes to...