Alan Richmond

Web & Internet

Recommended Online Courses in Computing, Science & Mathematics

These are MOOCs or Online Courses in Computing that I have taken or am in the process of taking, that I found to be particularly good in a number of ways. For me, it’s important that the presenter presents well. I’m easily distracted by verbal tics – y’know, ok, um err? And of course, the…

A Basic Introduction to HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser. HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>), within the web page content. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> (opening tag) and </h1> (closing tag), although some tags, known as empty elements, are unpaired, for example <img>. The…

Web Publishing with WordPress

WordPress

WordPress is a free and open-source tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 23.3% of the top 10 million websites as of January 2015. WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than…

How the Web works, in Amazing Detail!

Astonished kitten

Visiting a web site seems so simple – click on a link in your web browser, and soon – within seconds we hope – an interesting web page reveals itself to us. What could be easier? In fact, what happens ‘under the hood (or bonnet)’ is amazingly complex. It’s taken decades of computer and software…

WordPress Tips & Tutorials

WordPress

This WordPress Tips & Tutorials article offers a few tips gained from a few years of experience with building and tuning WordPress websites. It also links to further articles for optimising WordPress, and some tutorials. WordPress started in 2003 as a free, open-source website building and blogging tool. As of Jan 2012, over 24% of…