WordPress Just Gets More Popular
Grousing with a colleague recently, as web developers often do, about all the "you'll have a website up and running in a few minutes" ads on TV (not really true, frankly). Those "hosted" solutions can be the right choice for, say, a photographer who just wants to...
Why WordPress Sites Need Maintenance
One of the reasons I attended a recent WordCamp in Sacramento was to find out how WordPress as a Content Management Solution is faring and whether other "hosted" solutions are gaining traction. When WordPress got started in 2003, it was hailed as a minor miracle for...
Wordcamp Sacramento 2016
Spending the weekend at WordCamp. Lots of good stuff but here is one presentation that is valuable for anybody who wants and/or builds websites. Profitable Website Development: The Oreo Cookie Strategy WordPress is a complicated application software. It's a CMS....
Santa Cruz in 1955
So sweet..yet somewhat frightening, too. Yes, things have changed here since 1955.
The Latest Big Idea
Bloated Servers Hurt Your Business
Many hosting company are getting bought out by big corporations and/or are just getting greedy. Add to that, it takes me three times as long to develop a WordPress site on GoDaddy because I have to wait for their bloated servers to respond. Yes, their customer service...
Getting Mobile Friendly
Yes, we all need to be mobile friendly since people are moving from desktops to doing everything on their phone. And, of course, Google says your site won't show up in searches on mobile devices if it's not built for mobile. Nice article link that explains the...
What’s all this about Google+ Authorship?
Perhaps you've heard that authorship is a big deal and Google Plus authorship is even more important? Like many things for WordPress clients, "There's a plugin for that!" But, you do need to setup up a Google+ profile and plugin WP-Buddy author (wp-buddy) has given...
Latest Website Launches
Having so much fun this month, starting with helping local police chief John Weiss with his cartoon website. Current projects include building a new WordPress website for the Santa Cruz Veterans as they re-open their building in January and a new WordPress site for...