Creating a new website can be a daunting task if you are not familiar with the process.

This page contains articles that my clients have found useful, and during a project I may recommend some of them to you to read (where they are applicable to your needs). These articles contain both my own observations, as well as observations and recommendations from other developers and IT suppliers.

Selecting a web hosting company

Selecting a web hosting company is the first step to setting up your website. If you don’t know where to start, following are some web hosting companies that I have used.

Managing website performance

This article looks at a number of things that can be done to achieve good website performance, which is something that every site owner wants to see, because it is good for customer satisfaction.

Favourite theme and plugins

This article describes the standard architecture of theme and plugins that I use for building each of my websites.

Subdomains for development

A normal best practice for major software development is to use a development environment rather than doing development straight into a production environment. This article lists the required steps for doing that in WordPress

Building your web pages

Choosing a page editor

The page editor that you choose has a major influence on the way that you design your website. The standard WordPress editor is the Gutenberg editor, but that has limited functionality. So I always use a page editor that has more functionality

HTML text editors

The text editors that come with a page builder have varying levels of functionality. This article looks at some tricks that I use when building the HTML for my websites

Setting up Search for your site

Everyone wants their site to be found by search engines (e.g. Google). But that doesn't happen by magic, and you need to plan how to get the best search results

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