First off, I’m an Apple fan from way back. I have an original Mac Plus that still works. The first versions that didn’t have a hard drive and you had to swap the floppies. You can’t really do anything productive on it, but it’s still cool to play with every now and then and just […]

Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. in today’s day and age, Social Media has completely taken over the internet. If you want to have a successful business, social media is an easy way to grow your audience and boost your sales, but how exactly do you gain followers?   I’ll be honest, I’ve had my […]

Let’s face it, we have been so busy building websites and working with clients to position their sites and also get their social media presence noticed, we’ve not paid much attention to your own social media. I guess being to busy is a good position to be in, however it’s no excuse to not keep […]

Over Priced Web Designers are giving the web design industry a bad name.   Recently, a potential customer called and asked for pricing on a very simple 2 page web site setup up in WordPress. I’m a firm believer of quoting sites based on a fair rate and not trying to make my whole year […]

I know all about the IRS scam calls going around and have received many of them. While I was driving I got the call on my cell and because I had a ways to go to my destination decided to have some fun.   I returned the call and somebody who announced themselves as IRS […]

A lot of the younger generation today has no idea how the internet came into existence. They just know it’s there and they can’t remember a time without it.   Those of us that are older remember when we had to send an actual letter to somebody or pick up and dial a rotary phone […]

Over the years, I’ve used many different development tools and have tried many others. While hand coding is gratifying, when developing sites that need to get done quickly I’ve settled on Dreamweaver CC.   In the early beginning of Dreamweaver, yes the code was messy and bloated and it was better just to hand code […]

With the advent of the do it yourself website tools like Wix and Weebly, many business owners have the ability to now create their own site without working with a design house.     In some cases, that might be all that business ever needs however the problems start when those businesses decide they need […]

WordPress is a pretty versatile platform that can be used for many things other than just blogging.   One way to create a custom home page in PHP is to create a file in the template folder and name it home.php   You will need to include the header and footer in the page by […]

Sometimes, it is necessary to get the current page the visitor is on and then feed it through some other code so that it can produce a result based on the current page.   For this site, we gather what page is displayed, then based on that result, the output is put into the menu […]