In the Euro­pean legal area, exploita­tion rights inher­ent­ly belong to the author of a work. She does not have to do any­thing else. In the Amer­i­can legal area, things are dif­fer­ent. There, every work falls into the ‘pub­lic domain’ by default. Only when the author active­ly claims her ‘copy­right’, the work belongs to her. […]

Yes­ter­day I was asked to doc­u­ment the tran­si­tion from the pure, sim­ple bootScore site to a fan­cy one. The lat­est ver­sion alone would not visu­al­ize its pre­de­ces­sors. True! To solve that issue, I should inte­grate a slid­er show­ing them as a series of images. And indeed, doing so would also be an oppor­tu­ni­ty to eval­u­ate a good Open-Source image slid­er as part of a bootScore site. […]

I had set up my old site, fodina.de bilin­gual. With the help of WP-Globus. As nice as this worked for years, at last WP-Globus got lost. Thor­ough­ly! When I edit­ed the Ger­man text, it made the Eng­lish dis­ap­pear. And vice ver­sa. Some­thing like that shall not hap­pen to me again. The restora­tion was com­plex and com­pli­cat­ed. So, while migrat­ing to bootScore, I switched to two sep­a­rate sites. […]

A foot­er is an area for more off-beat ref­er­ences. They are more off­side inso­far as our read­ers expect to get access to what they came for — direct­ly after a page is loaded, direct­ly on top of it. At the bot­tom — where they first have to scroll — they are look­ing for minor aspects. That’s the log­ic of sub­or­di­na­tion. For the sake of read­er-friend­li­ness, the foot­er menu should also fol­low it. […]

What is impor­tant is in the eye of the behold­er. A lawyer would per­haps include the imprint, the image cred­its, or the data pro­tec­tion con­cept. And not to for­get: the open source com­pli­ance arti­facts. The read­er, on the oth­er hand, would see it dif­fer­ent­ly! She wants con­tent. Enter­tain­ment. Real ‘con­tent’. Not this legal gob­bledy­gook. […]

Search engines don’t like gos­sipy key word­ing, but they love well-filled sitemaps. But they detest bro­ken links. […]

SEO encom­pass­es a lot. One means of Search Engine Opti­miza­tion is the seman­tic tag­ging of sec­tions, which became pos­si­ble with HTML5. bootScore is very well posi­tioned here. […]

Some­what frus­trat­ed , I have to add that embed­ding ‘own’ HTML code into a WordPress/Gutenberg block via ‘Edit as HTML’ occa­sion­al­ly destroys the type and con­tent of the block : If the code is sus­pect to the Guten­berg edi­tor, it replaces the work already done with an emp­ty HTML block . Annoy­ing if you just want­ed to quick­ly add anoth­er icon from Font Awe­some via <i class="fa-regular fa-square-check"></i>. That must be solved dif­fer­ent­ly. […]

The form of my scope list con­vinced me to talk about Font Awe­some Icons and cus­tom CSS class­es in bootScore, first. A pure HTML list is ugly, in my case: down­right unread­able. No amount of reword­ing or restruc­tur­ing helped. Short­en­ing it was not an option either. It should con­tin­ue to func­tion as a com­plete scope state­ment. So I had to change its appear­ance. […]