An Outdated Theme
WordPress has a modular architecture, allowing users to change the page look, layout and typography by changing the Theme. One of my customers had a very old WordPress theme that…
Why I Don’t Like Dotster.com
My web clients choose from among many web hosting companies, and Dotster.com is one that I don't like for WordPress sites. Why? Great question, let me give you an example.…
Keeping Your Website Updated
In the early days of the web we hand-coded every site and there were lots of static HTML files, then we started to add styling in a separate CSS file,…
Keeping Your Web Hosting Plan Updated
My website runs on the popular WordPress platform and is hosted at www.ionos.com, formerly called www.1and1.com. All is well, at least until it's time to upgrade your web server language…
The Subtleties of PHP and WordPress Development
I like to keep my WordPress sites up to date with the latest release of software so when I finally upgraded this site to WordPress v3.2.1 I noticed something quite…
Avoid Yahoo Small Business for Web Hosting
Unfortunately I do have a client that started with Yahoo Small Business for his web hosting and we have been using WordPress so that he can make his own updates.…
Speeding Event Registration with Auto Fill
PPI is a client that organizes several annual events with online registration. Jules at PPI asked me to look into automating the process for companies that are returning again this…
How I Migrated my Custom PHP Site to WordPress
Since most of my web clients are now using WordPress it was only logical to migrate my own site from a custom PHP implementation to a custom WordPress site. Here…
Dascom Systems, Client Exmaple
Over the past few months I've been contracting with Pivot Group on a site for Dascom Systems. We just launched on Friday and I'm excited to show you what our…
Tethered Photography,Applescript, PHP, MySQL and Web Servers
I'm getting ready to do formal portraits at a corporate party in March so I'd like to share with you how I've automated my workflow to better serve clients. Here…