The other day I moved a customer’s website from GoDaddy to BlueHost.   As you may know, with a BlueHost account you can host multiple websites on one hosting account.   The customer is taking advantage of that fact and is having me move his sites to BlueHost. I logged into the customer’s BlueHost account and went [...]

Periodically studies come out about shopping cart abandonment.  Shopping cart abandonment is when people start to buy from an online store and then leave the site before they complete the checkout process. The percentage of customers that abandon their carts during the buy process was calculated to be 63.83% by the Baymard Institute.  It’s a [...]

  I’ve been using Xenu’s Link Sleuth ™ for a long time.  How long?  I started writing code in 1998 and I think I found this tool within my first year as a website developer. Xenu goes through your site and finds broken links.  It’s a great tool for “traditional” (non-blog) websites.  Just download the [...]

Last week I did an emergency website fix for a new customer.  I hadn’t built the site and wasn’t familiar with its functionality.  As I worked on their payment page, I realized what I was looking at.  The page collected credit card information and then emailed the credit card details to the website owner.  The [...]

I am one of the luckiest people I know.  I get to live my dream, working from home while I help people make their dreams come true, because of the Internet.  Proposed laws threaten our ability to make a living on the Internet, express ourselves on the Internet, do research on the Internet and touch [...]

Most of us use email every day.  But just how does it work?  Check out this video see where your message goes after you press send. Share this:

From time to time I come across interesting articles or websites that I think you’ll enjoy.  I save them up until I have five, and then I share them with you. Here’s today’s batch: The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good – Working with websites involves making a lot of choices.  PayPal or E-Junkie?  [...]

On January 3rd WordPress released version 3.3.1.  The new version contains 15 fixes to WordPress 3.3.  It also address a security issue. If you haven’t updated to 3.3 yet, this is a great time to make the switch.  Not only will you get all the fixes, people who make themes and plugins will have had [...]