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Why your website matters even more, even if you’re getting fewer “visits”

By David Innes, RealBasics.com | October 7, 2026
Glasses on a Mannequin - by Flickr user Nan Palmero

I just ran across a post by Loren Baker explaining why strong websites still matter even though fewer people may be visiting them as often: AI models still read your site, often more carefully than casual human visitors do. [Tech company CEO Sachin] Puri illustrated the change with a hypothetical customer who asks an agent…

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Why it’s a bad idea to use text in background images

By David Innes, RealBasics.com | October 10, 2023

This is an awesome meme (the text at the bottom is intentionally cut off.) It nicely illustrates why including text on background images is a bad idea. Because background images get cropped as the screen changes sizes. On particularly small screens, the background image may also shrink too far to be readable. (This readability issue…

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Case Study: Converting an old page-builder website

By David Innes, RealBasics.com | December 21, 2019
A web page after turning off an old-school page builder.

On a Facebook group for the Beaver Builder page builder, someone asked “Maybe a crazy question… Would it be possible to take HTML from another page builder and import into BB?” Here’s how I answered the question. I did this just the other day (Thursday!) It was a horribly slow site built with an expired…

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Quick video tutorial: adding internal and external links to a page or post.

By David Innes, RealBasics.com | July 7, 2016
New link editing tools in Wordpress 4.5

I was about to record my own video to show how to add internal and external links in the latest version of WordPress when I stumbled across this short video by Dave at WP Smackdown.  He demonstrates how to add internal links (to another page) and external ones (to other sites.) it’s less than two minutes long.…

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