Custom WordPress Websites that Rock!
A few weeks ago I showed you how to stop the spammers from swamping you with bogus emails from your comment and IDX system. You can read more about that: "How to Reduce SPAM". I also dabbled a bit for your website forms and discussed the idea of Akismet, the Honeypot, and CAPTCHA. One of the …
On this date way back in 2008 I needed a new website. I was transitioning from a job in a related industry and needed a URL that better reflected what I was now into. Mortgage > Title > Social Media/WordPress (with a detour along the way to do a bunch of Facebook Development stuff). How or …
If you have a form, any form at all, you're going to get some SPAM. How to Identify, and Eliminate Virtually All SPAM from your Website Let's start with a few simple rules that we can all agree on RULE #1:The simpler the form, the greater the response.The harder the form, the less …
For better purposes the title should really be "How to setup Showcase Widgets and Saved Searches in the new IDXBroker Dashboard" As this post and video are going to focus on just 2 things... Creating new Showcase Widgets, andCreating new Saved Searches (they call them "saved …
Let's use this post as a bookmark of sorts. You really don't need to know this, I just want to be able to point clients here when I need to for reference. That said shouldn't we all keep on learning new stuff? What is DNS? This is a great place to start. You've seen the acronym in your …
If you've listened to our show you've heard our Tool Tip session where each of us share a tool tip of the week. I know you don't usually listen (you should) so I thought I'd recap this month's tool tip here in a TL:DR kind of way. :) Tool #1: Goosh.org Everyone wants to know how they rank in …
I like to challenge myself each month on weird stuff. This month I've challenged myself to produce a video each day that is short yet informative, educational, and actionable. Here's Day 5 Today I'm going to show you one little thing that'll keep the bad guys out of your stuff EVEN if they …
I like to challenge myself each month on weird stuff. This month I've challenged myself to produce a video each day that is short yet informative, educational, and actionable. Here's Day 3 HTTPS is a Google Ranking Factor! That means better SEO. HTTPS also means a more secure internet …
TL:DR Opinion: Apple just took a wrong turn in their redesign of the workhorse MacBook Pro. I remember the day perfectly. I was at a video shoot. We were doing an artsy thing with a shallow depth of field. I was shooting on manual with my Canon DSLR (a T2i at the time) and the client wanted to …
By AWC I mean AreWeConnected.com and by AMP'd I mean Accelerated Mobile Pages. Yeah, it's already mobile responsive but this is different. It's a push from Google. Again. Here's a video Not to get too technical but here's what they are looking for... The following optimizations …
When that old computer dies I hope you take it to a certified e-waste recycler for proper disposal. Of course, before you do that you need to make sure they are legit. Did you know that there are bad guys out there offering free e-waste recycling (they'll even pick it up for free!) that are …
The big news of the day might be that Apple has launched Apple Pay. That's the ability to pay with just a touch of your phone. Essentially, you connect a bank card or account to your phone, go to a merchant, tap your phone and viola! Payment made! It's called NFC (for Near Field Communication) …
