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Every small business owner has a story to tell.
Your website is a great place to tell your story.
It's important to have input from all whose jobs are affected by the website.
Artists need clean, simple sites where the focus is the art.
Every industry has a wide variety of business types.
Web development is a learning opportunity for both the business owner and the developer.
When you run a small business, it's difficult to take time out of the many hours a week you work to think about the website.
But, your web development tasks cannot be done while you are answering the phone and taking care of customers.

When Google Search Console Helps You Find a Hacked Site

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Fighting the WordPress Core

A user interface should not be sending you hunting all over the software!

What Good is Text if no one Reads it … Besides Google?

WHAT GOOD IS TEXT IF NO ONE READS IT ... BESIDES GOOGLE At the top of the home page of my new site, I have...

When Images Cause a Noisy Clamor

When a site has too many images, the images cause confusion, instead of being helpful.

Reference Library: Threaded v. Asynchronous

How to "work smarter, not harder" lies in controlling the work flow.

It’s Not ALL Cookin’ Time

Sometimes, it's clean up time! And sometimes it's knowin' what to keep and what to throw away.

Starting a new MontanaWebmaster.com Site

So, what steps would I take to set up my own WordPress website?

When Different Understandings Cause Confusion

It's easy for miscommunication and different understandings to cause quite a lot of confusion. I experienced that this morning. When I go to Portland, I...

When Technologies Collide: Avoiding Ongoing Charges

In Business School, we learned that ongoing charges are more expensive than one time charges. From a cost perspective, the software version of expensive is SaaS (software as a service) ... good for the developer, not so good for the buyer.

When Technologies Collide: Finding the Right Pieces for the Puzzle

When Technologies Collide: finding the right pieces for the puzzle It's a...

How Do I Get Google Analytics and Google Search Console?

How Do I See the Google Analytics Stats? Previous Post on this...

When Technologies Collide: Category Collision

The seemingly simple task of working with and deciding on categories for your content is a series of struggles for most websites. This post addresses one of those issues. If a Post can be attached to many categories, and if being attached to a category triggers another function, which function of the many categories will be triggered?