Persistent Storage: Database vs Text Files
How data fields are designed and stored has changed over the years and the options have multiplied, making understanding data structure an even more important skill.
Keeping Records of Users
Web hosts, Domain registrars, PayPal, Themes, Plugins, Website platforms, Email, … We have so many digital assets, and each of those assets has users.
The Right Image for the Right Place
This is the Wrong Image for this Place It’s the wrong image for the Facebook Preview. The photo doesn’t attract attention. It’s stuffy. And, it doesn’t support the idea of a domain name. The text flattened into the image isn’t much help either. It’s the wrong image for this post …
Google Trends: First Math, then Reality
Measuring the effectiveness of each time expensive task helps you put future efforts in the right direction.
Case Study: How Do I Put that on my Website?
There is knowing how to do a few HTML code tweaks, and there is knowing where the control panel writers put the place to add the code. And sometimes, where it seems like it should go and where it actually goes takes you down the merry path of wasted time …
Case Study: Ohio Woodlands Learns a Little HTML
As a website developer, I take the path less chosen: if my clients want or need to learn how to code, I teach them how to code. When Website Systems Don’t Make it Easy to Add Pages Many website tools, such as WordPress and other Content Management Systems, make it …
When Form Submission Leaves People Hanging
You got what you wanted. They filled out your form. But, you may have gotten something you don’t know about … an uncomfortable viewer.
Strategic Use of Meta Title Tags, Page Titles and Permalinks
Meta Tags, Page Titles and Permalinks: they aren’t the same. Their jobs have subtle differences.
Fix it Quick or Fix it Right?
There is a lot to love about the WordPress Kahuna theme. But, one of the things I don’t like is that the inside page titles are over the banner image. I can customize the code with a child theme, so it’s not a big problem. Or is it? The quick …
Does a Bad Website = A Bad Company?
A bad manager once told me, “Perception is everything.” This was a man who lied a lot … at someone else’s expense to benefit himself. One of the problems with websites is that they really don’t tell you whether a company is good or bad. The Path to the Boiled …