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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...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...Google now forces your site to be responsive
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In the last few days I have been getting a few notices via Webmaster tools from Google stating that some of my personal sites are not mobile friendly. Aka responsive. Google states that this will indeed result in lowering search rankings on mobile search. So Google is now forcing you to have a responsive website! […]
Read more...Remove first line of CSV file
Recently I needed to run a script to remove the first line of a CSV file and was getting stumped! Finally after some testing and trouble shooting and a little Google help I found a solution. And I am hoping this post will find it’s way to others with similar needs. And credit to stackoverflow. […]
Read more...Why you need to be Mr. know it all
Running a web design business is much more than just being a web designer. So many companies out there learn a little bit about WordPress backend and market themselves as a web design company. But they are lacking in so many other areas. Reasons why you need to be a Mr. know it all A […]
Read more...Concrete 5 image align left margin or padding
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Adding images in Concrete 5 is simple, just like any other WYSIWY editor. Just click the image icon choose your image from either the image manager, or from your computer and done! And of course you usually want to align/float the image left or right, Concrete has this option as well. But it’s lacking one […]
Read more...Migrating Concrete5 to new server
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Guide to Migrating Concrete5 There are a couple issues when you are transferring your local development site to a live server. 1. Turn off pretty urls if you have them set on your site. I ran into .htaccess issues spitting out a 500 error, so best to turn pretty urls off first. 2. Second zip […]
Read more...Google Penguin Recovery – SEO
How to recover from Google Penguin update So your site was killing it in rankings, and then the new Penguin 3.0 algorithm came and now your seo rankings are in the gutter! Why? How? If you found this post you more than likely already know why or how penguin works. It’s about over optimized anchor text. […]
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