👩‍🌾 Webgärtner's website guide

Website maintenance / Writing alternative texts for images correctly? First aid tips from the website gardeners

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Terms such as "alt attribute" or "alt tag" give many hobby gardeners a headache. But don't worry, it's not that complicated! The website gardeners explain what it all means: "Alt" stands for alternative;

Am in the garden / Messages to GMail not deliverable? A quick solution.

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With error messages with the subject "Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender", the destination server of our mail informs us that it is unable to send our message to the desired destination address.

Website maintenance / PDF invoice printing with WordPress and WooCommerce

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If you operate an online shop based on WooCommerce with the German Market add-on, you already have a convenient function for creating PDF invoices and printing invoices with the German Market add-on.

Website maintenance / WordPress beginner tips

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A few beginner's tips for daily (or occasional) work with WordPress. No secret hacks, but the little settings that help with the first steps with WordPress, but are easy to overlook

Website maintenance / Access data under control

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Convenience in dealing with access data and passwords often leads to security risks. Yet secure solutions are not that difficult.

Website maintenance / Sequence for WordPress updates

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For the secure operation of a WordPress site, it is necessary to regularly update both the basic system and the extensions. For reasons of operational security, it is advisable to follow a certain sequence

Website maintenance / Help, my Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge shows me old or broken content...

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After changes have been made as part of website maintenance, we often receive feedback from customers such as "Everything still looks the same on my site" or "But now the website is completely different".

Am in the garden / Simple and secure video conferencing

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Video conferencing is currently experiencing an unexpected increase in popularity. People are working and learning from home and so many of them, more or less forced by circumstances, are making their first attempts at video conferencing.

Website maintenance / Which fonts are used for headings and texts on our site?

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"That looks nice, I wonder what font that is? And what colour?" In web development, as in the garden, it's always interesting to look at the

Website maintenance / How big do photos that are placed in the margin or in a gallery actually have to be?

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If you want to embellish your web garden with new images, first check the maximum planned display size of the graphics and scale the image files to this pixel size. The suitable file format for

Website maintenance / How to take a screenshot of the complete homepage

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Gerry the web gardener answers the question how to make a screenshot of a complete homepage.