Web Services Don’t Need your Permission to Change … or Disappear Many years ago, a client in the travel industry had a problem with their little weather app on their website. It just stopped working. The weather app was a WordPress plugin tied to Google Weather. Google discontinued their weather …
How to Backup your Website The reason to back up your website is so that you can replace it or move it. Reasons that you might want to replace your site are 1) in the case your site is hacked, 2) in case your site is broken. You may want …
The WordPress functions.php File Introduction When WordPres doesn’t work the way you want it to … the WordPress core also provides multiple ways for you to customize. All customizations should be done with plugins or in a parent/child theme, but not all customizations are the same. Most of my theme …
How Do I See the Google Analytics Stats? Previous Post on this topic: How to tell whether your site has Google Analytics. A problem that frequently comes up is when the code for Google Analytics already exists on a site, but no one knows which Google Account it’s tied to. …
Today, we had a technology collision. After a great deal of work on a new section of website posts, we found that a technology would not show what we wanted to show on the home page.
Plugins, Apps, Extensions, Modules, etc Are Not Equal Even within a specific category, such as a shopping cart, there are things a particular web technology does, and there are things it doesn’t do. Another way to say it would be that there is the way that particular technology does things, …
Here we go again, another technology that will cure cancer and guarantee world peace. The truth is, each of these latest, greatest technologies 1) serves a specific purpose, 2) is just a new twist on previous technology, 3) comes with a bucket load of marketing gobble-dee-gook
WHAT IS A MODERN, REACTIVE FRAMEWORK? Udacity has a free course called Build Native Mobile Apps with Flutter. It’s a fairly comprehensive course, but it starts out with the assumption that the viewer is already steeped in the development world. Within the first 20 seconds, you will hear the words, …
WHAT GOOD IS TEXT IF NO ONE READS IT … BESIDES GOOGLE At the top of the home page of my new site, I have added a MetaSlider. The images have captions that are web development planning tips. If I switch them out occasionally, Google will give me credit for …
WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOLS: TAKING A DATABASE DUMP WITH PHPMYADMIN I have been adding quite a few posts and images to my new website. If I don’t have a backup plan, I could lose it all. If my site is hacked, I could lose it all. 4 options I have …
