Almost a month to the day when I posted this, some well intentioned idiot at Greater Spokane Incorporated decided to present Google Sites to all of it’s clients in its news letter as a viable alternative for creating business websites. /*begin rant…*/ There are so many things wrong with this I don’t know where to [...]
May 112012
No doubt, if you watch any television at all, you have seen a ton of advertising for outfits like Intuit, Webs.com, 1 & 1 and others offering free online website building tools and low cost hosting. The recent proliferation of this type of software is a direct result of a bad economy as most small [...]
Mar 252012
WordPress is a great Content Management Platform that gives it’s owners nearly unlimited ability to edit their website even if they possess no programming skills or knowledge of web development software. That by itself is reason enough to use WordPress as a framework for you site, but there are plenty of other excellent reasons to [...]
We get asked frequently these days, “Why do I need a website if I already have a Facebook Business page?” There are actually myriad reasons to maintain both a website and social network pages, but first and foremost is that when it comes right down to it, you are just leasing your facebook page (or G+ or [...]
Mar 102012
Having a blog on your website can have a positive impact in a number of ways. The one thing that a blog can provide ANY website is improved indexing by search engines. This is especially true if your websites content doesn’t change often. Search engines love new content so anytime you are adding or changing [...]
Mar 072012
OK, let’s get one thing straight right off the bat…you HAVE no privacy on the internet. Everywhere you go and everything you do online is being tracked and recorded by someone, somewhere. Virtually every website you visit installs cookies on your machine. Now, cookies are generally harmless and in many cases actually improve the [...]
Mar 062012
You should take regular back-ups of both your site files and database, especially after major changes or if you are upgrading your theme version or the wordpress software itself. Occasionally plug-ins will stop working after a software update and if it happens to be a critical one you’ll probably want to revert back to the [...]
Mar 042012
Since we built our first ecommerce site back in 2004 (pretty much the stone age in internet terms), a lot has changed in the way that commerce is conducted on the internet. Until relatively recently, launching an ecommerce site involved setting up complicated and expensive software that had back end control panels that were at [...]
Feb 182012
Check out a REALLY cool WordPress plug-in…Google Fonts for WordPress lets you assign fonts from the Google Font Library to all of your font formats. Finally! a way to use something other than Arial or Times and still be browser safe. Download it here. Link to this post!
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