Backup Buddy on GoDaddy hosting
So I have a few hosting accounts with various companies. Plus I have had many clients with all kinds of hosting accounts. I do love GoDaddy’s customer support, and their hosting is generally a little more affordable than most as they are consistently running specials. But the one bad thing is that Backup Buddy doesn’t […]
Read more...XAMPP OS 10048 Error
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How to fix XAMPP’s OS 10048 Error Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. AH00451: no listening sockets available, shutting down. So Ive been dealing with this message when running a CLI script that executes the start of xammp. I searched and searched online but couldn’t really find a quick […]
Read more...2016 Wix.com Review
On October 14, 2015 Search Engine Land wrote an article that Google had dropped Wix.com pages out of their index. Google officially confirmed that they were working on getting Wix sites back into their search engine. This is no surprise, I have been saying this back in May 2012 blog post about how Wix sucks for a […]
Read more...Contact Form 7 – Select drop down dates format
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Updated: 06/11/2023 Contact Form 7 is great, but the format is slightly different than traditional forms. They wrap everything in quotes and it runs horizontal. So when it comes to dates, it can be quite tedious adding all that info in a format that isn’t easily accessible through a Google Search. In case you don’t […]
Read more...How to enable explicit_defaults_for_timestamp?
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After upgrading my xampp with mysql to 5.6 I started getting an error when creating a new database. I looked everywhere for the answer. They kept saying put explicit_defaults_for_timestamp=1 but it wasn’t working. Turns out you have to put it in the right spot! Open your my.ini file, present at “C:\xampp\mysql\bin”, find “[mysqld]” (without quotes) in next […]
Read more...The Animation Website Design Trend
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More and more web design companies are using these generic out of the box jquery animations. I am glad jquery and other libraries offer easy to use animation but it’s really getting out of control. The problem with any out of the box or premade template is that it’s generic, and usually not that great. […]
Read more...WordPress versus other CMS alternatives
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Today I am going to be a critic of a critic. I stumbled on to a blog post or should I say website today that was discrediting how awesome WordPress is. Now this might be a bit of a bias post on my part since I think WordPress is quite amazing but mostly from a […]
Read more...Social Media term defined
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Recently someone in the industry mentioned expanding or doing more social media to get better organic rankings and using terms like guest blogging, reddit, pinterest ect. They even said not so much Facebook or Twitter as Google doesn’t index those sites since they are member sites. It is true, Google doesn’t index Facebook or Twitter […]
Read more...Adding an Authorized user to Mongodb
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There isn’t really a whole lot of information out there about how to add a username and password to your database for mongodb. There is the documentation on Mongodb’s website but it just gives parameters or options and not really a step by step process. Security is a big part of web design and the […]
Read more...So you want to be a professional photographer?
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Photography is a very over saturated market. Anyone with a handful of cash can go get a professional camera and start calling themselves a photographer. But a fancy camera and a self imposed title doesn’t make you a professional. When it comes to photography lighting is key. Stop shooting natural light for portrait photography and […]
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