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.
Category: Web Development Tools
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 …
How to Backup your Website
The reason to back up your website is so that you can replace it or move it.
The WordPress functions.php File
Sometimes, I need WordPress or a theme to function differently. Then I need to work in functions.php
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
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, “Modern, reactive framework.” What is that? …
What Good is Text if no one Reads it … Besides Google?
Google will give me credit for changing the content on my slider. But the words are not easy for a human to notice or read.