I use several different hosting companies.  One that I haven’t written about before is ICDSoft.  I don’t recommend them to customers because they don’t offer telephone support.  However if you’re an experienced developer, this is a great host. Uncharacteristically, ICDSoft was down last week.  I discovered that they were experiencing a DDoS or distributed denial-of-service [...]

If you publish an online newsletter be sure to sign up for it yourself.  It helps you answer some important questions, questions that you should be asking. Did the newsletter really go out? Earlier this week I assisted a client with his newsletter.  He was going to send out the newsletter email later in the [...]

There are so many WordPress themes out there.  How do you know which to choose?  There are no cut and dried answers.  However if you’d like your blog to stand out from the crowd something to look for is a website with an updatable header graphic.  These themes allow you to replace the header graphic [...]

Don’t be shocked, but I’ve been investigating another website host.  I still adore HostMySite.  The thing is that I’m working on a project that has made me ask the question, “How would I coach a customer through a WordPress installation?” Installing WordPress involves FTP, zipped files, installing a MySQL database and altering a configuration file.  [...]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a tricky business.  There are loads of tips and tricks written about what to do to score highly in search engines.  It’s also important to take a look at what NOT to do. Google, the current top dog in search engines, advises: Do Not Use Hidden Text – Sometimes it’s [...]

I first posted this article two years ago.  I’ve received emails about it as recently as last week.  It’s an issue that I still deal with every, single day as a website developer.  Websites look different in different conditions.  And here’s why . . . ***************** Have you ever noticed that your website looks different [...]

Once your website is up and running be sure to get a website statistics program.  Exactly what one you get isn’t as important as the fact that you have one.  A statistics program will help you: see where your traffic is coming from discover who links to your site monitor website traffic growth learn what [...]

It seems like there’s a new financial crisis happening every day.  I have friends that have lost their jobs, while others are having their hours cut.  Let’s not even talk about my 401K. So what’s a person to do?  We can have faith in ourselves and in the future. That’s the subject of an ezine [...]

What time is it?  Tax time! If you’re like me, you’re running over the financials and making sure that everything is just right  before heading off to talk to your accountant.   Before you go, take a look at the list of 101 tax deductions that Wise Bread put together.  There are some deductions there that [...]