Category Archives: web development and design

Welcome to WordPress Child Theme Tutorial Creation. Here are some of the benefits to creating a child theme in WordPress. Why Create A WordPress Child Theme? It takes less time to create. You can take advantage of parent theme functions. You can take advantage of parent theme CSS styles. You can also use the parent Read More

In JavaScript let visitors change background color with the click of a button.  There are more advanced ways to do this however I am going to show you something very simple. The div classes that I will target on this website are site, site-content and entry-content. If you look over in the sidebar to the right Read More

If you’re a blogger or website owner using WordPress or the Genesis framework, you may be interested in displaying advertisements or additional content after the first post on your homepage. This can help increase engagement and revenue by providing readers with relevant content and advertising opportunities. Here’s how you can add advertisements or content after Read More

Sometimes its necessary to add content at the end of your RSS feed. Here is a little code that will help you to do that. You can add social pages, scripts and more using this method. Just paste the code below into your functions.php file and replace the content with whatever you want it to Read More

Opencart Installation on Shared or Dedicated Servers is a process but hopefully I can help make that a little easier for you. This will be an OpenCart series to give you the knowledge that you need to install and run an Opencart CMS. I have created a video tutorial on how to download and upload Read More

Providing Mac support was a hard decision for me. I am a PC guy and have been for 25 years. However I have also worked with Mac’s in the past, I just wasn’t that crazy about them. However many of my clients have Mac’s so I felt compelled to buy 4 mac computers and start Read More

Creating a Website Mockup in Photoshop is not the easiest thing to do. You first need “Imagination” and then the tools to make that imagination a reality. I have had several students that wonder about the mockup process. There is nothing easy about it but it sure is fun to make them. Here is a Read More

Many people want to use Notepad Plus Plus to edit their website files. It is free and easy to use. Once your grab the basic understanding of connecting to your website server via FTP its all downhill from there. Download and Install Notepad Plus Plus Your first step is to download NotePad  Plus Plus. When downloading Read More

I have spoke about clearing your browser cache in previous articles but if you are still having problems seeing changes on your website there is one more thing that you may want to try if things are still quirky. That would be flushing the DNS cache on your computer.  Although this may look scary it is Read More

Have you heard of pagination in WordPress on one post? An example of this on my website is that article entitled Using Bing Webmaster Tools. You can see the arrows at the top and bottom of each page. You can also see page numbers. I also wrote an article “How to Increase your Page Views in Read More

Wanna remove “Howdy” in WordPress? How many of you out there say “Howdy”? Maybe if you are from the south you may use that terminology however I had a client of mine that runs a Caledonian or Scottish blog.  The “Scots” do not use “Howdy” at all unless they are poking fun. So she said, “Max, Read More

Set your YouTube video to play at a certain time. Have you ever had a YouTube video that you wanted to play at a certain time? Here is a FREE WordPress plugin for you. This plugin will show up right in your dashboard when  you log into it.   Try YouTube Timings before you Download it 🙂 Read More

Do you have a 500 internal server error in WordPress that is driving you nuts? Well sit back, relax and read. This problem may be easier to solve than you think. There are a few things that may be causing this but more than likely if you are using the WordPress CMS the cause is Read More

I created a Google Community last night and called it “Web Development Strategy”. We all find out new and interesting things that we can do to make our websites better. This is what a1websitepro.com is all about. Helping people be more successful with their websites. Why did I create this Community? The focus is on Read More

Google announced August 6th of this year that an SSL on your website will affect where you rank in their search engine. For those that took the Web Development Strategy course sponsored by A1WEBSITEPRO you learned that making your registration private is not the greatest thing to do. Why? Because it is a warning signal Read More