Earlier this year, We rebuilt our web design services to offer two packages. The Pro is the same web design package we’ve always had. It’s best for a custom, tailor-made project. It’s modern, responsive and can be loaded with features. We design our “Pro” websites for much less than what most other designers charge – and we’re proud of that. …
Working with Images – Updating Your Website
Working with images is an essential part of working on your website. You want to visually appeal to your visitors; therefore, it’s necessary to make sure your images are optimized before uploading them so that your website can run at peak speeds. Here are a few tips on how to best prepare your images. 1. Make the image the exact dimensions …
Website Redesigns: A Worthwhile Investment
“Redesigning your website is one of the most powerful things you can do for your company online.” With design trends changing every few years, a website that is two or three years old can easily seem outdated when compared to a competitor who has a website that is up to date with the latest design trends. An outdated website could …
The Joy and Struggle of Moving Content From One WordPress Site to Another
This week I’ve had to turn once again to the world wide web for its wisdom when it comes to moving partial content from one WordPress site to another. Normally, WordPress’ built in export/import tool would do the trick. But in the case of the two instances I was presented with this week, it was not so. Both existing websites …
Contact Form 7 spins
While maintaining one of my websites today, I noticed when I submit the contact form, that the ajax icon at the button would just spin and spin with no real indication that the form was being sent. It was however – every time I clicked submit. The WordPress site uses the very popular Contact Form 7 plugin in its latest …
How to control your kids music on their ipods
I have four kids. Two of them are old enough (4 and 5) for ipods (I guess) and have recently each received one thanks to their very generous grandma. So among the iphones in the house, we now have an iPod4 and an iPod5. The kids love their music. We have tons of home videos of them moving to the …
Firefox 11’s New 3D Developer Tools
Firefox 11 just released today and, as a web designer, I’m giddy about their new 3D developer tool for, well, web developers, even if for anything just the sheer coolness of it. Below is a preview of this site in 3D mode. Developers have been accustomed to 2D tools such as Firebug and Firefox’s own built in tools for some …
Rapid City Web Design
Any business in 2011 that wants to be successful must have a strong web presence. With as much internet access that we have today, all well-to-do, want-to-do-well, businesses have so much at their disposal. And with as many companies, commercial and those offering open source solutions, offering high quality, easy to use, content management systems and point and click startup …
Q & A: Sending large files
I have a file that I need to send to a friend but it appears my email won’t send it. If i can’t email it then how do i get it to my friend? Signed, Unsatisfied Sender Dear Sir, Your question is not an uncommon one, so rest assured that there are others wondering the same thing. There is an …
Get with Site5: Webhosting with Loads of Features
Among the available web hosting and domain registration companies out there, Site5 stands strong and firm, offering loads of features, stable servers, and great prices. When you’re shopping around for a web hosting company, you want to know 1) What do you offer? and 2) How much do you want me to pay? So we’ll start there first. With Site5, …
Round 2: Fatcow vs BlueHost (The Transfer)
A while back I shared an article entitled Round 1: Fatcow vs BlueHost (Initial Setup) where I discussed some initial differences between my experiences with Fatcow and Bluehost. Well today I disclose the rest of the story… With my fatcow hosting heading toward expiration in just a few months I decided in the first week of April that I wanted …
From Around the Web: Collection of Useful Tidbits
Over the past few months, I’ve collected useful tidbits from around the web. Information, tweaks and apps great and small- all of which are equally important but cannot hold an entire post by themselves. So I have clumped them here in a little bit I like to call From Around the Web: Collection of Useful Tidbits 1. Resizing your Mac …
MediaBox: New Interface
Last month I successfully installed Windows 7 on a custom PC and hooked it up to my TV so that we can watch Netflix, hulu, and whatever else. I installed a VNC client on the PC and am using Snow Leopard’s built in VNC Viewer (Screen Sharing) which acts as the MediaBox’s remote control. It’s not as convenient as a …
Jolicloud OS Reviewed
These days with the expansion and tweaking of linux, operating systems are a dime a dozen. A few weeks ago, I reviewed Chrome OS, which Google built on linux, and I wrote how I was disappointed with it, mainly ’cause there’s next to nothing to it. Then I discovered Jolicloud this week via a post by Lifehacker: Jolicloud Netbook OS Is …
More on Pandora: Widget in Dashboard
One of Safari’s “hidden” features (on Mac) is the ability to essentially take any part of a webpage and create a widget in dashboard. Listening to Pandora at home tonight, I wanted a way to listen without a browser window being open, like you can with Open Pandora on Windows (see Get Past Pandora’s Listening Limit for more information). I …
Hulu, You’re So Funny
Since my wife and I recently cut the cable in our house, we’ve been watching our favorite shows like The Office, and recently, V, on Hulu. I really like Hulu, for now-unpaid. Even at standard definition, the videos look clearer than, say, on nbc.com. The website is simple and easy to use. Of course I like their full screen ease …
Google Chrome OS Reviewed
Google Chrome, the browser, has been out for some time. It offers a spin on browsing- a cleaner, more streamline, google way of browsing. Besides its incredible speed, the next best thing is that the address bar is also the search bar. Currently it’s only available for Windows, but if you’re Mac, you can find a preview version of it …
Use Scalable Background Image on Your Website
Because I basically suck at coding a sweet background to use as website background, I naturally result to Photoshop to design the image…but I get stuck at this question: “Ok, so how exactly am I going to put this image in the background and make it so it doesn’t look cropped, leaving white space around the image?” If you’ve ever …
Get Past Pandora’s Listening Limit
Pandora, you’re great, but I need you more than how long you offer yourself and…let’s face it, I’m not paying money for any kinda of internet service. Pandora sets a 40 hour listening cap on its free “subscription” and resets the number of listening hours at the top of every month, but I always hit that cap with like 2 …
Round 1: Fatcow vs BlueHost (Initial Setup)
I’m a big Mac fan and my wife knows it. She knows it so well that she purchased me a years subscription to MacLife magazine and MacWorld for my birthday last year and then renewed again this year for our anniversary. What a gal! She’s pretty much my favorite. FatCow In every issue I see Fatcow.com web hosting at an …
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