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- How to Make Sure Your Website Colors Have Enough Contrast for Accessibility
- Mobile-Friendly Website Checklist: 20 Things to Check
- Beehiiv Website Builder Review: The Problem Isn’t the Design – It’s the Lack of Control
- Elementor’s “Angie” AI Is More Than Bloat: Credits, Subscriptions, and a Growing Platform Problem
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“My Partner Wants to Use WordPress Because 50% of the Web Uses It. Help!”
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“I am building a website with my partner. He wants to use WordPress to build it, saying that 50% of the websites use it, so it must be good. I point to the high maintenance, and that hacked WordPress websites are way too common. We will need to use many plugins for the features we need, but UltimateWB has everything we need built-in. Einstein’s quote that insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and
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EmDash is getting attention as a new alternative to WordPress. Its creators describe it as a “spiritual successor to WordPress” built to rethink some of the problems that have accumulated around the traditional WordPress model. EmDash 1.0 was released in September 2026.
But if you’re considering EmDash because you’re frustrated with WordPress, there’s a bigger question to ask:
Does EmDash actually solve the problems you have with WordPress, or are you simply replacing one complicated website setup with another?
Let’s
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Stanford had an AI rule. Then it broke its own AI rule.
The photograph looked like an ordinary college promotional image: three Stanford students smiling and holding plates of food at a Lunar New Year celebration.
It wasn't an AI-generated image. It was a real photograph of three real students.
Then Stanford changed it.
What Happened to the Photograph?
The original photograph was taken at Stanford's Wilbur Dining Hall during a 2024 Lunar New Year celebration,
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“I'm looking for the best website builder for SEO - considering WordPress, Wix, and UltimateWB - so, what’s the best website builder for SEO and how can I know and decide?”
The answer is UltimateWB.
UltimateWB combines built-in SEO functionality with direct control over your website’s structure, code, and performance. WordPress, Wix, Webflow, Shopify, and other website builders can all be used to create SEO-friendly websites, but the way they provide SEO functionality is very different.
So what
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Posted in Ask David!, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Tagged accessibility, caching, caching plugin, clean code, compatibility, compatibility issues, core web vitals, fast website, hosted vs self-hosted, html, javascript, pagespeed insights, php, plguins, rank math, search engine optimization, security, seo, third-party plugins, website performance, website speed, website speed optimization, Wix, wix alternative, WordPress, wordpress alternative, yoast seo
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How to Make Sure Your Website Colors Have Enough Contrast for Accessibility
Choosing colors for a website is not just about whether they look good together. Your text, backgrounds, links, buttons, and other elements also need enough contrast to remain readable and distinguishable.
A color combination that looks perfectly clear on your monitor may be difficult for someone else to read, especially for people with low vision or color vision deficiencies.
Here are some practical things to check when choosing and reviewing your website colors.
1. Check the contrast between text and
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Having a mobile-friendly website means more than making your desktop website shrink down to fit a phone screen.
People interact with websites differently on a phone. They tap instead of click, scroll with their fingers, type on a small keyboard, and may be viewing your website in bright sunlight or while using one hand.
A website can technically be responsive and still be frustrating to use on a phone.
Use this checklist to review your website on mobile and catch
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Posted in Website Design
Tagged mobile optimization, mobile usability, mobile website, mobile website checklist, mobile-friendly website, responsive web design, responsive website, touchscreen usability, wcag, web design, website accessibility, website checklist, website design, website usability
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Beehiiv Website Builder Review: The Problem Isn’t the Design – It’s the Lack of Control
Beehiiv is known as a good newsletter platform. Its Website Builder is another story.
Beehiiv markets the Website Builder as “Fully customizable” and says users can create websites with custom layouts, branding, images, content, fonts, colors, and more.
On another Beehiiv page, the claim is even stronger:
“NO CODE. NO LIMITS.”
and
"Our no-code website builder can give you a world-class website in minutes, not months. No design skills required."
But current Beehiiv customers are describing something very different. They
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Posted in AI, Compare Website Builders
Tagged ai, AI website builder, Beehiiv, beehiiv alternative, beehiiv review, Beehiiv vs UltimateWB, customizable, no-code, php
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Elementor’s “Angie” AI Is More Than Bloat: Credits, Subscriptions, and a Growing Platform Problem
If you’ve logged into your WordPress dashboard recently after updating Elementor, you’ve probably been greeted by an uninvited occupant sitting right in your editor bar: Angie, Elementor’s AI assistant.
Angie started out as a separate plugin. Elementor then moved it directly into the Editor workflow, putting an entry point right into the Editor Top Bar.
You open your page editor and boom - Angie is right there staring at you in the toolbar, acting for many as an
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If you run a local service business, you probably remember when getting listed on Google Maps was easy. You filled out your information, waited a week for a postcard, entered a five-digit code, and your business listing was live.
Today, the process looks very different. If you are launching a new profile, changing your business address, or updating your primary category, Google will often require a live, unedited video to confirm that your business legitimately operates in the area you
... Continue readingThe Great Deskilling: Why AI Dependence is Turning Developers into Prompt Babysitters
We’ve reached a strange, stagnant point in the evolution of the web. The marketing promised us a revolution: a world where AI would handle the "grunt work" and leave us to focus on pure, high-level creativity. But if you look at what’s actually happening on the ground, the reality is far more cynical.
We aren't seeing a new era of innovation. We’re witnessing the Great Deskilling of Web Development.
From Architect to Babysitter
Ask any developer who has leaned heavily
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