Engaging Mobile Users via Responsive Web Design
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When a user first visits your website, they should feel like they’re visiting your home. It should be tidy, organized, and easily accessible for them. First impressions are crucial, and a poor experience will leave a bad taste in a user’s mouth, decreasing the chance of them returning to your site again. That’s why it’s […]
Read more...Why you suck as a business owner
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Some characteristics that you might want to evaluate before you become a business owner. 1. Technical Skills You own or want a website but the extent of your computer skills is checking email. 2. Time is Money You don’t value other people’s time. 3. All Talk You talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. […]
Read more...Shortcode output at top of page content in WordPress
Come across a shortcode glitch a while back when I was building custom interface for a client site. The shortcode’s output was displaying at the top of the page content, no matter where I dropped the shortcode. Searched around for quite a bit until I found the fix. Hopefully you will find this blog post […]
Read more...Writing the Perfect Blog Post
Blogging has become more of a way to get traffic through organic search than it is about writing small snippets of blog entries. Most blog posts are thought out, pre-planned, keyword researched, and generally looking at what other people have posted on the subject matter. It is much more involved if you are blogging to […]
Read more...Moving WordPress to new Domain and forwarding permalinks
How to forward your permalinks under a new domain when using WordPress You have decided to re-brand your domain. You have been using WordPress for several years and have tons of blogs, and quite a bit of pages. What is the best way to keep the same permalink structure and just redirect the root domain […]
Read more...Why you should choose responsive design vs mobile app
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Responsive Design Verses Native Mobile App Note that this article is geared toward the small to medium size business. If you are a big brand and a well know website, like Ebay, Amazon, Walmart ect you NEED a mobile app. But if you are a smaller company that doesn’t have the deep pockets like those […]
Read more...Open Cart vQmod to Remove List View
Remove List View in Open Cart Recently I wrote a post on how to remove the list view in Open Cart. It is fairly easy, and since I have been having to do it quite often for client sites, I figured I might as well write a vQmod for this purpose. Im fairly new to […]
Read more...Removing List View fom OpenCart
How to remove list view or grid view from OpenCart Having the ability to swap between a list view and grid view is pretty nice and makes a flexible accommodating user interface for the user. But personally I do not like the list view. You don’t really get much more information and it just makes […]
Read more...Creating Strong Passwords – Password Generator
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Creating strong passwords is always good practice especially with passwords on the web. The number 1 reason for hacks are weak passwords! Generally speaking a strong password consist of lowercase, uppercase, numbers and special characters. The longer the password the stronger it is. A good rule of thumb is type out your password 2 times. […]
Read more...Trim whitespace on WordPress Excerpt
Recently built a client website and was pulling in a custom excerpt to the homepage for a custom post type. Everything worked fine until the client decided they were going to add a header image above every post and add some returns before the actual text started. This change on their end started giving my […]
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