Link­ing Boot­strap and Word­Press to get a respon­sive design is the task of bootScore, a WP-theme bring­ing along what the web design­er actu­al­ly does not want to pro­gram her­self. Instead, she can now rely on an MIT-licensed pre­lim­i­nary work host­ed on GitHub. But its ‘stan­dard out­fit’ still must be per­son­al­ized, ‘pimped’ — by the work of a Web Design­er? The theme is adapt­ed — so bootScore — by mod­i­fy­ing its “[…] .scss, .php, and .js files”. So you can pimp your bootScore eas­i­ly. Here are my 13 steps from a pure bootScore to my per­son­al ‘home­page’: […]

Last time it was­n’t hard any­more: With­in two days my post about my ‘reset’ because of lack­ing an ‘inner link­ing’ and about the ‘right way to be crawled and indexed’ had been processed by Google. Like my revised posts, I had designed it in accor­dance with the rec­om­men­da­tions of YOAST that take into account Google’s ‘unspo­ken’ spec­i­fi­ca­tions — as pro­claimed by YOAST. How­ev­er, by fol­low­ing these rules, I had also giv­en in to the styl­is­tic supe­ri­or­i­ty of Google and YOAST: […]

It’s a while ago, that I wrote about SEO. That should not be a big deal, I thought at that time. In its tem­plates, bootScore thank­ful­ly uses seman­tic HTML tags by default. Thus, it should be suf­fi­cient to sub­mit one’s own sitemap to Google & Co. Enrich­ing the pages them­selves with addi­tion­al key­words should be super­flu­ous. A good pri­ma­ry con­tent would be enough. No need for a sec­ond text behind the actu­al one. That’s the way, I thought. More­over, I saw no rea­son to talk about inter­nal link­ing. Rarely has Google so embar­rass­ing­ly proven me wrong: […]

To speed up deliv­er­abil­i­ty, the devel­op­ers most­ly dis­trib­ute com­pressed JavaScript libraries that do not con­tain any white­spaces, line feeds, and com­ments. They have mini­fied the libs. As a result, they usu­al­ly con­tain only very rudi­men­ta­ry license infor­ma­tion — at least not the license text itself. But all FOSS licens­es require us to ship some com­pli­ance arti­facts with the code — espe­cial­ly the license text. This is the chal­lenge for using JavaScript com­pli­ant­ly — in bootScore and else­where: […]

Often the web­site oper­a­tor is told, that Data pro­tec­tion is com­plex and has to be orga­nized by experts. But what if she does­n’t have the mon­ey for that? If it seems some­how non­sen­si­cal to shoot at a spar­row blog with the can­non of a paid team of experts? Then — maybe and with the help of Google — she installs some pop­u­lar Word­Press plu­g­ins for data pri­va­cy and DSGVO and/or cook­ies — in the hope that all goes well. Or she inves­ti­gates it in more detail. And in the end, she per­haps gath­ers rules of thumb, from which at least one well-work­able way results. Here are my 3.7 rules of thumb, applied to my own data pri­va­cy file: […]

boot­strap and bootScore use SCSS vari­ables — as we know. Group­ing fonts is done by vari­ables. And we can define two groups. This is suf­fi­cient if we want to use only two font fam­i­lies. But if we want to use extra fonts — for exam­ple, a spe­cial google font in our menus -, we need to do things dif­fer­ent­ly: […]

Select­ing good fonts is a mat­ter of design, get­ting suit­able web-fonts a mat­ter of knowl­edge. Not only, if we need some for spe­cial cas­es. With bootScore we can incor­po­rate Google Fonts direct­ly. We are even told how to host them local­ly, so we can bypass the notice in the pri­va­cy pol­i­cy. Nev­er­the­less, we have to get a lit­tle involved with Boot­strap as well: […]

In bootScore Top­pings, I’ve already offered two slim land­ing pages: mylap-sp1r­p1 and mylap-sp0r­p1. Both show the impor­tant things first: The blog top­ic. And the most recent post. One of them addi­tion­al­ly puts the most recent Sticky Post in front of the oth­er. But if we nev­er­the­less want to show our read­ers the one or oth­er sticky post more, we need a solu­tion for inte­grat­ed dis­creet ref­er­ences to pre­vi­ous posts: […]

Until now, our slimmed-down land­ing page mylap.php — as a tem­plate linked to the Word­Press page mylap — still shows the list of all posts. But our favorite read­er had ‘pre­scribed’ us that she want­ed to see only the most impor­tant on the ini­tial page. And that at a glance. The most impor­tant thing in a blog is prob­a­bly always the most recent post. Plus maybe the most recent ‘sticky post’, that is, the one that the author marked last so that it should always be shown at the top: […]