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Here's how I protect my computer when browsing and reading email. Use my sixteen tips to be safer online.

Aim for simplicity in the design and development of your website for maximum impact and most efficient maintenance.

If you use passwords like 'password', 'robert1980', '1234567890abcdefghijklmnop', 'qwertyuiop', or 'J0hnSm1th', then you need to read this post.

Straight up tables of numbers can be incredibly dry and hard to understand. By converting these statistics into interactive graphs and charts, I'm giving site visitors a better way to engage with and understand the data.

At bedtime, my children love when I tell a 'Jacob and Anna' story - an adventure, made-up on the spot, that stars them. They have ridden dragons, been shrunk to the size of an ant, met elves, and orbited the moon.

Sometimes I think that Murphy (of Murphy's Law) works a lot of overtime. How many times has it happened to you that something fails right when you need it to work (like your furnace or your car)?

My life turned upside down twice in the summer of 2005. In June 2005, I worked as Creative Director at a small design agency. It was a sleepy day at the office, when my boss called the staff into a meeting and told us all a surprising piece of news.

Security has become an ongoing concern for web developers which requires regular attention. How are you securing your site? In this post, I look at iThemes Security and WordFence.

So, you’re thinking about building a WordPress site but you don’t know what it should look like? Been there… and I’ve learned a few things along the way. The template or design for your WordPress site is called a Theme and there are literally thousands to choose from.

I like to think of a website as a digital signpost. Even if it's only a single page - it's a way for people to find you and connect with you. Obviously, it can be much more than that but when getting started, all your website needs to be is a single page. Your classic under construction page (not my favorite thing), can start as a contact page and then be replaced by the full site.

Making and keeping your website accessible to all visitors is important not only to meet Ontario's accessibility requirements but also ethically, to make information available to all site users regardless of disabilities they may have.

What is the best image file format? How do we strike a balance between appearance and file size? We can compress a file greatly to reduce its file size but then it may not look very good. Here are some factors to consider and how to decide what file format to use.