Embedding a video on your WordPress blog is pretty easy. Grab the embed code and viola! There are also short codes that will work (and have you tried just adding the video URL to your post to see what happens?) But what if you wanted to have a page on your site that showcased ALL of your …
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17 Reasons why you need a HOME Base: Part 2
Yesterday I posted the first half of the post version of a webinar I gave for a group of real estate agents. Today, here's the other half. Here's why every agent needs to OWN their own website and why it should be on WordPress. Like any of my presentations in real life, my webinars have very …
17 Reasons why you need a HOME Base (and why it should be on WordPress)
Here we go again with another EPIC blog post... ;) I am presenting a webinar for a group of real estate agents today and I thought I would share the same content with you as I did with them. Here's why every agent needs to OWN their own website and why it should be on WordPress. Like any of my …
Mise en place
I make a living building web sites. I'm a web developer. When it comes time to build I find myself scrambling to find the 'assets' the client has provided. The concept of 'Mise en place' can fix that. 'Mise en place' is a french word that applies to cooking but I'm going to apply to web …
Question of the Week: What the heck is CSS?
So I'm working on a website for a client that will be a single page website. They are kind of popular these days. We identified the need for having 22 distinct areas on the home page (on a single page website there is ONLY the home page). To create these areas I went into the .php files for the …
Questions of the Week #2
Welcome to Questions of the Week, Episode #2. Why am I riding a bike you ask? Because Jay said so and he's the one who asked the questions for this week. :) Ride like the wind... @MikeMueller — Jay Valento (@hometourjay) June 8, 2015 This week I tackle "What size font should I use on my …
WordPress: It’s as easy as sending an email
Incredibly, I just had a potential client decide not to build their website with me because they said that they didn't "know" WordPress. Don't let fear of the unknown scare you away from WordPress. If you know me, you know that I'm always building with the user in mind. When I build a site I …
ABC: Always Be Creating
I'll be the first to tell you. I'm not creative. But going along with the "above the fold is dead" theme, one of the big website design fads right now is having a site with a moving video as the background. I seem to get calls every week. "Can you build me a site like Sotheby's or …
“Above The Fold” and Sliders are DEAD
I recently read two posts, somewhat related, somewhat in contrast, but both thought provoking. The first was about our actions when we come to a site these days. We used to wait till the page loaded, then start at the top left, skim across making an "F" pattern. That meant that all of your …
Do I Need a Website Redesign? (Infographic)
Over the weekend I had someone ask me My first thought was that they were looking for a form I had created that asked them to consider the WWWWW&H of a new website design. (I included the form at the bottom). Turns out, that wasn't exactly what they were looking for. This morning I …
What Google is looking for in “Mobile Friendly”
Now that Google's Mobile Friendly Deadline has past I thought I'd write a little about what they are looking for. The big news you might see today is that this update could effect over 40% of the top Fortune 500 websites. You and I are not in with that crowd but the same rules apply to us little …
Google ‘s Mobile Friendly Deadline is April 21st
The world is coming to an end! [ujicountdown id="Google Mobile Friendly Deadline" expire="2015/04/21 00:00" hide="false" url="" subscr="" recurring="" rectype="second" repeats=""] That's what every website builder would have you think. That's because Google has been warning website owners that …