Google Trends: First Math, then Reality
Measuring the effectiveness of each time expensive task helps you put future efforts in the right direction.
Category: Web Development Tools
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 …
Case Study: Themes and a Mobile UX Problem
Mobile Friendly is more than just squishing the theme down to the size of a mobile device.
Text and Images are the Ingredients for your Website
Website structures are similar to putting together a salad, and how ingredients work in a salad.
“FREE” Software: GIMP and Paint
GIMP is a “Free & Open Source Image Editor. In this article I will look at some of the basic functions a website content manager needs to perform.
Shopping Cart Case Study: One Product with Variations or Multiple Products
Shopping Carts: One Product with variations or Multiple Products Software has no imagination. Everything has to be entered precisely for software to work. This is especially true with setting up a shopping cart. For this article, we will discuss setting up a shopping cart for t-shirts using Plants Anonymous as …
Image Tasks for a Website Content Manager
Image Tasks for a Website Content Manager Articles about Planning Images Image Design Inconsistencies Image Overload The life cycle of a website has need of many skills. The web developer gets all the attention, but development only really involved at the beginning and when new features or rebuilding is needed. …
On Not Buying an Indie Car to Go to the Grocery Store
No matter how comfortable I have been with Photoshop, that doesn’t make it the best tool for everyone.
Web Services Don’t Need your Permission to Change … or Disappear
When a Plugin Mysteriously Stops Working … it may no longer exist Many years ago, a client in the travel industry had a problem with the little weather app on their website. It just stopped working. The weather app was a WordPress plugin tied to Google Weather. Google had discontinued …