Think about the last time a website frustrated you. A menu that wouldn’t open. Text that was too faint to read. A video that auto-played. Annoying, right? Now imagine that experience is your only way to use the web, every single day. That’s the reality for over one billion people with disabilities. Accessibility (often shortened to a11y, […]

Displaying estimated post reading time for your pages is a subtle form of courtesy to your readers. It gives them a useful information on the time they will spend reading the page, so they can eventually bookmark it if they don’t have the time to read it right away. Combined with a reading progress bar, […]

Let’s face it, Gravatar should have been a plugin from the start, but Automattic chose to shove it down our throat from the very start in 2007. If you use WordPress as a blog, you may want to keep it to get the commenters’ profile picture in a simple way, if you use WordPress as […]

If we needed an analogy with the physical world, it would be like a storefront that welcomes your visitors and gives them a first impression they’ll keep for their entire stay on your website. Your website’s homepage must ensure to use the following elements to keep the browsing experience at its best. 1. Showcase of […]

As a web developer (or a designer), it’s hard to follow everything that’s going on in terms of new tools and resources. From time to time, one should look around the interwebs and look for new ways to stay on top of your game and keep your productivity at the expected level. 1. Loading.io Sometimes, […]