The Whiteboard of a Web Consultant
No matter how many ads I see for one-click websites on TV, quality isn’t possible with a 3 click process. Websites are not simply drag and drop, click and you’re done, unless something has gone horribly wrong. It’s the first, primary, and likely most important of the ways you will interact with your customer base. Do it right.
A lot of people on WordPress sites have been contacting me lately frustrated with the new block editor. First, let me recommend that I think you should try to figure out how it works and then use it. But if you want to stay on the Classic Editor, you have the option to install the …
I was asked to put together a ten-minute presentation about my business for a local business networking group. But, despite that I could have made those minutes into an ad for myself, I decided to talk about the importance of checking for malware. Why? I was talking to the exact crowd that I’ve seen a …
Apparently, YouTube is getting rid of the option not to play other videos after the embedded video. For those of you who’ve been using it for controlled funnels, this may make some of your well-laid plans go sideways as people you intended to show a particular sales video to end up watching some other one, …
As of the day after tomorrow, your site may generate errors to visitors as soon as they reach a secure page. That’s because GeoTrust and Symantec SSLs are about to become untrusted in browsers, unless the company does some very drastic things. Which they might… so if there’s no problem, great. (Read Chrome’s article here.) …
If your website is not already on HTTPS instead of HTTP, any forms on your website, any and every form, will start showing error messages. Chrome is implementing, and other browsers will surely follow suit. How do you solve this? Immediately upgrade you hosting so that your site has a security certificate (SSL) and change …
Well, today is Prime Day once again, July 11th being a day now when people buy buy buy, much like Cyber-Monday, Black Friday, and a few other serious shopping days. I’ve been an amazon fan since they first came into existence. I enjoy shopping there, and have gotten more than a few peaks behind the …
You may have noticed that the world’s gone mobile-device crazy. I’m no exception. When I started blogging about websites, my smalllest device was my laptop. My blackberry wasn’t taking me to websites, my laptop was. What I saw back then, ten years or so ago on my laptop screen, was basically what I’m seeing now on …
I’ve been busy making old blogs new again, polishing and spiffing them up and getting them ready for the brave new mobile world. I will address the questions I get most often: Which businesses really need to go mobile friendly in a rush? Local businesses that need walk-ins Local service-industry businesses Any blog, or site with fresh cycling …
So, Tweet Adder is dead, even for those who it was still working for – on the original license type. There were 16 licenses owned by clients, all of which suddenly went silent and had invalid licenses as of yesterday. Checked a few other tools that used to be pretty well liked, and they’re all …
Being mobile-friendly is really not an option anymore. In many markets, it decides whether or not your visitors stick around, since so many people, especially in America, surf almost exclusively from their handheld devices instead of their desktops. So many, in fact, that you sometimes see a whole crowd of people staring at their phones, ipads …