Writing
Like many others (as evidenced by the various posts and searches on this topic), I do this infrequently enough that it has come up and bit me in the a** too many times so hopefully by memorializing my idiocy in blog post form, I will NOT forget this lesson I learned when managing FTP users …
For those of us who live in our Gmail inbox (inside of Google Apps of course) and who have done so for years know that it can be difficult to find a specific email that occurred within a specific time period; especially if it is a commonly occurring word. My frustration at having to page …
Have you ever used Powershell? Well, neither have I. Until recently I’d been happily scripting my server maintenance routines in batch files (I know, I know) but figured when one of our dev servers turned out to need to be a Windows Server 2012, I found that my tried and true batch files would need …
Recently, the Google Operating System posted instructions on how to Add Google+ Comments to Any Website. Well, I tried it right off the bat on a WodPress site will no luck. Took some hacking around but I finally found a good way to make this work in a WordPress theme where it was OUTSIDE the …
The folks at Brafton.com seem to think so and have created a killer infographic on why you should expand your production of quality content in order to grow your organic traffic to your website. Remember, while social media is content, your content should be leverage in social media also so don’t just rely on tweets; …
Have you ever found that a WordPress plugin that works fine on one web host isn’t working as you would have expected when you move it to a new webhost? We recently experienced this with a plugin that reaches out to a remote server to collect XML data to be displayed by the plugin. The …
I’ve just wrapped up spending an inordinate amount of time trying to debug a problem with some client sites that were hosted on WestHost. These sites are cookie cutters in that the theme and the plugins are the same as was running on other hosting companies (BlueHost, HostMonster, HostGator, iPage, etc) but on this new …
A good friend of mine, Marty over at LAOutdoorFurniture.com recently posted about how some of the their furniture provides a highlight in Lisa Ling’s newly redone Santa Monica home: http://laoutdoorfurniture.com/la-outdoor-furniture-customer-lisa-ling/ Check out the video, especially if you are intested in some inexpensive, designer patio furniture
Say you have a client who’s come to you to build them a new website; great, congratulations. You do some research and find out that the links on their old site all pointed at the raw domain (no www preceeding it). You’ve also decided that based on their needs, the new site should be set …
If you’ve ever worked in the codebehinds of the latest versions of AspDotNetStorefront, you’ve probably run into this problem before. Or perhaps you’re smarter than me and already knew this in which case, this isn’t for you. 😉 With the new Multi-Store feature in v9.x of AspDotNetStorefront, there are instances where you need to access …
