This article is for everyone. You may have a small business with a website your nephew built. You may be the nephew about to build your uncle's small business rad website. I'll run down what SEO is, basic setup and principles....
Read MoreYou own a small business. It could be a restaurant or coffee shop, or you run a small auto repair shop. You already have a website but you've heard about this mysterious cheap marketing thing called SEO....
Read MoreWhen creating a website for a local business, more often than not I include a google map. It's a great easy way for people who visually see where the business is located. However there are a few reasons why just embedding them on the page isn't always ideal:...
Read MoreWith a few of my clients, they wanted more than the standard excerpt. They wanted to display a paragraph or two of the post. without echoing out a whole post in an archive or landing page. Now Wordpress has great examples on how to do things similar to this with get_the_excerpt(); and the_excerpt(); .However i wanted to try a new method, using a mix of stand PHP functions and a few Wordpress functions I haven't used before....
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to add a submenu that didn't link to a page you created? A while back, a client requested a link to a particular view and arrangement of a table in admin area of Wordpress. To the best of my knowledge, there wasn't a standard function within wordpress used to pair a submenu item, that you could customize, to a parent top level menu....
Read MoreFont Awesome is a great icon resource and I encourage everybody to give it a try at least once. It's my go to icon set whenever I'm using social media links on a website. One problem people run in to is that from time to time a random icon won't load correctly in Firefox. Here are a few solutions if you notice one or all of your font's aren't working:...
Read MoreI use Wordpress a lot for the CMS of a site that I'm building or working on. This has come with it's ups and downs.Obviously the ups are way to much larger than the downs for the most part, or we wouldn't use it. However, one of the downfalls of letting someone else do the code is getting rusty, especially with coding websites....
Read MoreEvery few once in a while, I have end up working on a website page for a site that doesn't have enough content on it. The site looks great, the content and styles are really working together, but then theres that one page, maybe an archive page that doesn't have a lot of posts, or the 404 page, or a search results page that doesn't have enough content to push the footer down to the bottom....
Read MoreWeb Development has been an ever growing part of my life for the past three years. As I dove deeper into the rabbit hole during my 2nd year of college, I began to love the structure and rules that programming brought with it. I began staying up late, learning new HTML tags or reading posts on CSS Tricks. It was a wonderful world that I had discovered....
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