“FREE” Software: GIMP
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.
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. …
Overbuying Software: 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
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
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
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 Get Google Analytics and Google Search Console?
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. …
When Technologies Collide, part 2
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.
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, …
Google AMP: Another Technology to Take Over the World?
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