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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

This showed up in a client's Google Search Console "%3C?php%20bloginfo('comments_rss2_url');%20?%3E" Find out what it means.

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

Website viewers need a place to focus on when they first arrive at the site. Generally, that place will be an image, and it needs...

Reference Library: Threaded v. Asynchronous

THREADED VS ASYNCHRONOUS: THEY ARE JUST WORKFLOW MODELS FOR COMPUTERS Resource 1: https://eloquentjavascript.net/11_async.html Resource 2: https://codewala.net/2015/07/29/concurrency-vs-multi-threading-vs-asynchronous-programming-explained/ How to "work smarter, not harder" lies in controlling...

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

I'm switching web hosts from Modwest to SiteGround. Considering how many clients I have made this move for, I am very, very late in doing...

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...

WordPress Framework Themes: The Hidden Gotcha!

WordPress Framework Themes: The Hidden Gotcha! A normal part of a WordPress...

“I’m Going to Make them Call Me” and Household Appliances

I'm Going to Make them Call Me and household appliances I thought...

About Secure Certificates (SSL)

About Secure Certificates (SSL) Setting Up a Secure Certificate Website security isn't...

Why Is Web Hosting Part of your WordPress Site?

Why Is Web Hosting Part of your WordPress Site? There are a...