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.
AI gave you a family of tools to use. It’s not a replacement for a professional. Last week, I unhacked a website that was actively being wiped as I arrived. Completely wiped. They had gotten complacent and they knew it, and so they thought, lets use AI to bring us up to speed. Sounds great! …
If you haven’t yet switched to the new analytics tracking code (GA4) from the old UA code it’s time. US was left over from before Google existed, the Urchin Analytics system that they bought out. It’s old tech and not quite as efficient or effective as what Google wants an analytics code to be these …
I just had an old client from years ago come to me asking me to SEO their revamped website. I quoted it, and then the client asked me why so expensive for SEO. I’m actually pretty cheap for real SEO services. Again, for REAL SEO services, I’m cheap. Everything less expensive than the amounts I …
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 …