Tag Archives: website

Stop WordPress spam with .htaccess

I have created a number of websites for friends and family over the years using WordPress, and as these projects were all private websites I used Akismet to block spam. Akismet is without doubt the best comment spam prevention tool out there and I would really recommend it for any personal sites you may be [...]

Are standard blue hyperlinks conducive in modern web design?

Recently while proofing a design I had created a colleague of mine asked “Why do we not use blue links?”, to which my immediate response should have been ‘Why should we use blue links!”. However, to avoid an argument I let him speak about how users were used to the standard blue links shown on [...]

Latest project goes live: martynjoseph.net

Some projects take days, other weeks and well some take a year!