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Alt Text: What is it and Do I Need to Use It

13 September 2016 Pete Phillips, Project Manager

‘Alt Text’ stands for alternative text – it provides a text fallback for your images if they cannot be loaded. Alt text can easily be added to all images on your site through WordPress, when they are embedded on the page. When you choose your image from the Media Library,…

Man using a screen reader using alt text

A new technological revolution

20 August 2016 Ben Davies, Managing Director

It’s been a historic few weeks in the UK: we voted to leave the EU, we have a new Prime Minister in Theresa May and our opposition is in chaos. There have also been major global events such as the attempted coup in Turkey, the terror attack in Nice, and the…

TWK Web Design Inspiration – 11 August 2016

11 August 2016 Joep Prevoo, Designer

Welcome to our regular roundup of web design and development inspiration. Here’s a selection of sites that have impressed us recently here at The Web Kitchen… GETTY IMAGES – ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES Stock photography can be hit and miss, but photography giant Getty Images really hit the nail on the head with this website. An interactive display…

Developer Tip: Hiding a category of events from the month view in WordPress Events Calendar

28 July 2016 Hilda Rytteke, Junior Developer

We frequently use the WordPress Events Calendar plugin to handle events on our clients’ websites. Occasionally the client requests a feature that isn’t built in to the calendar, which means we must find a way to solve the problem. Recently, one of our school clients had the following problem. They wanted…

TWK Web Design Inspiration – 5 July 2016

5 July 2016 Joep Prevoo, Designer

Welcome to our regular roundup of design and development inspiration from around the web. Here’s a selection of sites that have impressed us recently here at The Web Kitchen. LIVICONS Here at The Web Kitchen, we are always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to give users an awesome experience. With the rise of…

We’re recruiting a sales manager!

16 June 2016 Ben Davies, Managing Director

As a growing business we’re constantly on the lookout for top talent, and we have identified a role that we would like to recruit for. Every TWK employee enjoys an employer matched pension scheme, lots of company socials and events, and flexible working. As with every new hire, this is…

The TWK Design Workflow: Part 2 of 2

6 June 2016 Lietta Dufour, Senior Designer

In Part 1, Matt explained how we go about putting together a comprehensive content strategy for our website whilst also establishing who we are designing it for and what the client wants. We have also clarified the hierarchical structure of the site and, thanks to a concise sitemap, we know the…

The Future of The Web and what it means for Schools

12 May 2016 Rob Stone, Founder, CEO

The web is always changing, so keeping a clear vision of the future is vital. As a company, we always try to look ahead rather than getting comfortable with the status quo. The web moves so fast that without a vision of the future, you can easily get lost in the…

Stop leading and stand out

7 April 2016 Karan Chadda, Copywriter

As countless motivational memes remind us, every person is unique. When people work together, whether at a sprawling conglomerate or a start up, they create unique organisations. And yet when they need a line or two to describe what their organisations do, they invariably say it is a leader in…

Developer Tip: Updating WordPress URLs in a database and testing

29 March 2016 David Gallimore, Head of Development

One of the last things on our ‘Go Live’ checklist is to repoint the domain to the server where the new site is. There are a few things you need to do before this can happen. When making a WordPress site live you need to update the development URLs to the…

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