Apache2 | Behind The Scenes

28 October 2020

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Installing WordPress on a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)

22 April 2020 | Updated 6 September 2020

A Raspberry Pi with Raspbian can be easily converted into a web server. This post will show how to install and manage a WordPress website on a Raspberry Pi using an Apache web server. More…

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Popular colour palette websites

21 August 2020 | Updated 27 August 2020

To make life a little easier there are various online colour palette pickers and colour generators to help designers choose colour combinations for their projects. This post lists some popular ones. More…

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Understanding the colour wheel

14 August 2020

The colour wheel is a 360-degrees representation of colour hues organised in a circle. It can be used for the visual representation of the relationships between primary, secondary and tertiary colours. More…

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Working with custom image sizes in WordPress

Using the Simple Image Sizes WordPress plugin

4 June 2020 | Updated 28 August 2020

The Simple Image Sizes plugin is a simple, yet powerful WordPress plugin that helps to see what image sizes have been set, to set new image sizes and to (re)generate the image sizes. More…

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Getting started with SASS

20 May 2020

For some website developers, no introduction to SASS is required. This post will show how to get started with SASS on a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian), a Windows PC or a Mac with your favourite IDE. More…

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Fonts in WordPress — how to add them

28 April 2020 | Updated 4 February 2020

The right typeface can significantly contribute to the overall style and feel of a website. Here we discuss the basics of adding fonts to a WordPress website. More…

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