Podcast sketch

Die besten deutschen Podcasts um deinen Horizont zu erweitern

Was ist ein Podcast und braucht man so etwas überhaupt? Viele Jahre habe ich Podcasts auf Englisch gehört. Die deutschen Podcasts bzw. deutschsprachigen Podcasts waren qualitativ einfach nicht sehr hochwertig. Meiner Meinung nach hat sich das in den letzten Jahren massiv geändert. Es gibt mittlerweile ein tolle Auswahl an deutschen Podcasts. Abhängig von den Themenfeldern macht es Sinn zwischen internationalen Podcasts und deutschsprachigen Podcasts zu wählen. Podcasts in der eigenen...

August 20, 2020Read more...
language learning to understand the world

Language learning to better understand the world

At some point in my life, I want to be able to communicate in at least 4 languages. Even though I currently do not put emphasis on learning languages I know that the time will come again. A few months ago I learned some phrases in Indonesian. It once again showed me how important it is to be able to communicate without technology. Google Translate and some other offline translator...

May 5, 2020Read more...

The best cheap or free email solutions for your domain in 2020 (Cloudways)

When I switched from DreamHost to Cloudways I was thrilled to get such an amazing performance and additional features like backup/restore or a staging system for a lower price. Of course, there must be a catch. Cloudways does not come with its own email hosting. That means no email address with my personal domain. It is time to look for very affordable or free alternatives. Luckily, both exist – cheap...

May 4, 2020Read more...
The book Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki is a good read before you start a business

Start a business and start cooperating instead of working for a business

I come from a working-class family and grew up in a very small village of a country I sometimes perceive a bit conservative. My wife is from Russia and comes from a small city - as they call it - with a population of 1.2 million people. Her dad is a businessman. Coming from a different culture and a very different family makes our brains wired quite differently when it...

April 23, 2020Read more...

Migrate WordPress website from DreamHost to Cloudways

Moving from DreamHost to Cloudways is not that difficult - if everything works out smoothly. The migration part itself is not challenging, however, there are some things to consider if you want to perform the full migration inclusive all the necessary steps to run the site securely, i.e. SSL certificate, HTTPs. DreamHost also comes with a free email service that is not included in Cloudways. If you use email by...

April 23, 2020Read more...
belief in what you are able to learn

Limiting beliefs others taught me at first and I proved wrong at last

Recently, I thought of all the languages I studied in life and came across in my travels. It made me think of the first contact with a foreign language in school. My memories to language learning are not the best. Now, I realized that this is partly because of limiting beliefs others put on me at first. Speaking another language or even several languages was one of the many things...

April 19, 2020Read more...

Trick spam bots with Honeypot for Contact Form 7

As soon as you offer a contact form, e.g. with the very popular Contact Form 7, you will find a lot of spam in your inbox. Most of those messages do not come from actual people but from so-called spam bots. There are several methods to avoid or reduce the number of such spam messages. All of those methods work differently and it might even make sense to combine them.

April 16, 2020Read more...

Quick fix for Divi: Stretched featured image on a mobile screen

Quick fix for the image ratio of a blog post's featured image on a mobile screen in the Divi theme. If you follow the guidelines and add a featured image to your post at the recommended size 960 x 440 pixels it looks good on your computer browser and on your mobile screen on your Smartphone. However, if you show all blog posts of a category (simply added on the...

April 13, 2020Read more...
look back once and take off

Why did I register for himarkus.com?

The website you are on right now was the first site I created in many years. Back in the old days, I used WordPress already. I also used Joomla, Magento, Typo3, and dinosaurs like Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage to work on websites. I remember how I designed a layout myself in Adobe Photoshop and sliced it into little pieces to put it together again and build a website. Do...

April 12, 2020Read more...

The WHY of my favorite WordPress plugins

There are over 50,000 WordPress plugins out there. It is really difficult to find a plugin stack that works well for you. Some plugins are not compatible with the latest version of WordPress. Some plugins do redundant jobs or interfere with each other. Some plugins are hard on your webserver. This article gives an overview of plugins I work with regularly including their purpose.

April 11, 2020Read more...