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Lesson Guides SFA, 2FA, MFA and passkeys: safer logins in plain English Turn on two-factor authentication everywhere, use passkeys where you can, keep your recovery codes safe, and let a password manager remember the rest. October 18, 2026 13 min read

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Guide Site upgrades Social login: let customers sign in with Google or Apple You'll know why one-tap sign-in with Google, Apple or Facebook beats a new password, which buttons to offer, and the WordPress plugins that add them. October 17, 2026 6 min read

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Lesson Explainers What is an API? How it works, how safe it is, and its limits An API lets one program ask another for data or actions. Learn requests, responses, pagination, rate limits, security, webhooks and how to test one with Postman. October 16, 2026 9 min read

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Lesson Guides Where to host your images: S3, R2 or your own server Small sites can keep images on their own server behind Cloudflare. Big or busy image libraries belong on Cloudflare R2, which charges nothing for downloads. October 15, 2026 7 min read

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Dev log CSS Build a scroll ruler sidebar with letter-by-letter titles Section titles that ride a ruler and swing into place one letter at a time, rebuilt from the ArtCraft site with CSS and a short script. October 13, 2026 10 min read

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Dev log SEO & AI search Canonical URLs: fix duplicate pages for better SEO When one page opens at several addresses, a canonical tag tells Google which one is real. Here's how to set it up and test it on WordPress and Shopify. October 12, 2026 8 min read

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Lesson Guides Cloudflare 101: set up the free plan, step by step Swap your nameservers to Cloudflare, turn on the orange cloud for your website records and set SSL to Full (strict). You get free speed, SSL and protection. October 7, 2026 11 min read

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Guide Site upgrades Share your store logins safely with staff and developers Everyone who works on your shop gets their own login, the logins you can't split live in a password vault, and you can lock it all again when someone leaves. October 7, 2026 5 min read

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Dev log CSS CSS anchor positioning: move elements on hover, no JavaScript Give the hovered element an anchor-name, make another element follow it with position-anchor, and add a transition. It slides there, no JavaScript. October 6, 2026 8 min read

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Guide Marketing Product photos: your online shop window Product photos customers want to look at: what to shoot, white or transparent backgrounds, consistent angles, the right sizes, and fast loading. October 3, 2026 5 min read

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Guide Site upgrades What is a CRM, and does your business need one? Know what a CRM does, its pros and cons, how to switch from one CRM to another, and how to add one to the website you already have. October 2, 2026 5 min read