Recently one of our clients asked me to help them post a video to their WordPress website. YouTube or Vimeo were not good options for a couple reasons, and since this client is a non-profit to whom we donate our services, we needed to keep our costs down as far as possible. On one of [...]
A “call to action” with a sense of humor
Checked the mail this morning and found an envelope that looked to me like junk mail. I would have run it directly through the shredder were it not for the call to action on the outside of the envelope that caught my eye, which you can see in the image below: That made me smile, [...]
Reviewing and comparing FreshBooks and Harvest for online invoicing
Invoicing clients is a fact of life for anyone in business. No matter how much you love what you do, at some point you will need to send your client an invoice so that they can pay you for your services. As we near the end of 2011 we have many options to choose from [...]
Domain Registry of America is hoping you won’t read your mail too carefully
I had a client call me last year asking why they had to renew their domain already, since we had done that not too long ago. I stopped in at their retail store and they showed me an envelope, a notice, and a return envelope from Domain Registry of America. I was slightly confused because [...]
Awesome timelapse video of the Milky Way by Randy Halverson
This is an incredible video shot with timelapse techniques in May 2011 by Randy Halverson in central South Dakota. It has nothing to do with websites at all — I just really, really liked it and thought I’d share it with the readers of this blog. You can see more of Randy’s videos at his [...]
Modifying the Events Manager for WordPress widget to filter events by category
I just recently discovered the Events Manager plugin for WordPress and implemented it into a client’s website along with the Events widget that comes with the plugin. The client liked the plugin and the widget, but wondered if the Events widget could be filtered by category to be able to display the events for a [...]
How to restore or move a Joomla website using Akeeba Backup
Akeeba Backup is one of, if not THE, absolute must-have components for a Joomla website. Not only is it a vital part of your website security strategy in the event that you need to quickly restore a hacked or otherwise broken website, it’s useful for more utilitarian purposes such as moving a Joomla website from [...]
Essential SEO for Joomla websites – the basics
There was a time when I thought that website SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, was a by-product of quality content on that website. While there is still some truth to that, I’ve come to realize that good SEO doesn’t just happen, it takes some serious thinking and some good old-fashioned hard work. You may not [...]










