You may have noticed a new request for cookie permissions on the Fireplace Aquarium.  Nothing nefarious here, Google Analytics and such.  Ordinarily I wouldn’t be bothered with this kind of thing but I was notified that Microsoft Clarity would do something threatening (I didn’t really pay attention to what) if the situation was not fixed.  […]

Easy SEO anyone can do Did you arrive at the Fireplace Aquarium by way of a search engine like google or bing?  How search engines choose which sites to show and in which order can be influenced by ‘search engine optimisation’ or SEO.  An important aspect of SEO, in addition to having interesting and informative […]

It is relatively straightforward to use the visual editor of WordPress or BoldGrid to embed pictures and have text flow smoothly around the picture to either the right or the left:  Insert the picture using ‘Insert Media’ from the column tab, then select the picture in the visual editor, click the ‘edit’ icon, and then […]

The configurable menus in WordPress have a checkbox labelled “automatically add new top-level pages to this menu” where if checked every time you make a new page it gets added to the menu.  That might be good for drop-down menus but otherwise very rapidly clutters up the page.  By default themes come with a ‘Primary […]

Sorting through BoldGrid Ok… so finally I decide to READ THE INSTRUCTIONS on how to actually use the BoldGrid software that comes with the WordPress installation on the DreamHost hosting site. This after some frustration with things like “what do all these on/off flashing symbols mean?” and “isn’t there an easy way to just make […]