How To Protect and Secure Your WordPress Website From Spam and Hacks
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I’ve had a few emails from people asking me how they can secure and protect their WordPress install from all of the comment spam and what steps they can take to reduce the change of getting hacked. WordPress is one of the largest blogging platforms in the world and it is open source. Because of …
Alternatives to Google Analytics
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Google Analytics is one of the most well known website analytics around, not to mention being one of the best. Although Google Analytics is a fantastic app to tackle your site’s analytics needs, there are actually several other options available that many would argue are better choices. We’ve pulled together eight of the best alternatives …
NextGen Gallery Effects Are Not Working
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Are you having problems getting the amazing WordPress’ NextGen Gallery plugin to work properly? Let me guess, you are able to insert the gallery fine, but clicking on an image just links to the full size in a new window or tab instead of showing the lightbox or thickbox effect. I recently had this problem too and …
How To Get Google To Index Your Backlinks
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What good is it building hundreds of backlinks, if those links are never found by Google? A non indexed link has a worth of ZERO. In this post I will go over some of the more basic methods I use to get my hard earned backlinks indexed!
Website Design Tips
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A lot of people have been emailing and tweeting me asking for general tips on their own website design. After critiquing the first 10 or so, I noticed that almost everyone is breaking some general rules. I figured this would be a great opportunity to share what these rules are with my website design tips!
Tools For Webmaster
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I’ve been getting a few emails lately asking me about what Tools I use to help keep track of my sites. My next blog post has been severely overdue, so here are the 3 most important tools for webmasters. These are also tools that I actively use myself! Google Analytics Arguably the webmaster tool I use the most, and is the …
The Worst Web Design Mistakes Of The 90′s
In my constant hunt for new potential clients, I always check out their current site first to see what I’m dealing with. Sometimes the site isn’t too bad, and other times I wonder if the previous designer has ever even seen a website made in the last 10 years. Here is a list of the The Worst Web Design Practices of the 90′s
Creative Web Design
There is no need to reinvent the wheel anymore. The web is full of standards, and we are proud to say that we follow them! The last thing you want is for someone to visit your site and not know how to get the information they want! This is where the creative web design comes into play; elegance through simplicity.
How To Remove Admin Bar In WordPress 3.1
WordPress 3.1 has finally been released to the masses today with a few handy new features. One of these features is the new Admin Bar, that displays on the website when a user is logged in, similar to when you are on WordPress.com. However, if you’re like me and this bar just annoys you, or you built your site …
Harmonic Design | HD-CMS Framework
Included in some of my WordPress Themes is the HD-CMS, Harmonic Design Content Management System Framework. This powerful yet flexible framework was designed for one purpose: to make editing your new site as easy as possible!
The Best jQuery Plugins
Everyone seems to be writing about jQuery these days, and hell, i’m a slave to trends. Despite the fact that my website design and development company’s site is based off of a free WordPress theme, I do try to be current with the latest and best website design features and functionality, most which are jQuery related. …
The Best WordPress Plugins
Want to learn how to spice up your WordPress site? In this article I will go over my personal favorite WordPress Plugins that I use on almost every site! These plugins extend the security, add functionality, and automate the boring tasks for your website.
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