by Katinka Hesselink on June 24, 2011
Last year I had the biggest webdesign job in my career (also the last one, as I quit designing websites for new clients just after). I wanted to make the CMS as user friendly as possible and went with WordPress. Two reasons: ease of use – with Joomla as the alternative WordPress was the clear [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on March 31, 2011
WordPress is a great CMS to make a site with quickly and make it look good. However, like in many other CMSs, it’s not easy to get iframes or javascript included in posts and pages. Since many of the most used affiliate sites (amazon for instance) use either i-frames or javascript or both, the ability [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on March 30, 2010
I’m working on a CMS for a large site: over 700 pages. I am using a horizontal menu for the main navigation, but when people are deep in the hierarchy, it makes sense to show them the children of the page they’re on as well as the parents, BUT NOT the other main level pages. [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on March 16, 2010
This is one of those ‘blogging to remember’ posts. I’m working on using WordPress as a CMS on a site that has 700+ pages. In order to properly organize things, I need to be able to mix ‘news’ (aka the blog part) with the ‘static’ pages (aka the pages). In other words: I need a [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on February 19, 2010
This blog was originally made on WordPress, using the Thematic Theme. Thematic comes with 13 widget ready areas (most of which you’ll never use), is coded well for SEO and flexibility of design etc. All that is why I started using it about two years ago, and yet I’m leaving it behind… Thematic is a [...]