Web Design
WooCommerce shortcodes not showing all products
I believe this issue should now be resolved in core WooCommerce. We love WooCommerce around here, but occasionally we run into a bug that hasn’t yet been merged into the core codebase. We set up a storefront many months ago for Lemon Dogs Tacos and Lemonade wherein they change their stock quite regularly. Because of…
Read MoreWhat to do with your website to lose my attention.
Poor organization The organization of a website can rarely just be thrown together at the last minute; with the best of websites, their organizational structure is well thought through long before the site is put together. A poorly organized website will lead visitors away from, or down an indirect path towards, the pages they’re looking…
Read MoreNeed an image for your WooCommerce Tags?
Have you run into a situation requiring an image for each of your WooCommerce tags? Lucky for you, so did we! We had a bunch of products and a bunch of categories, but we wanted to keep brands separate from actual categories, so rather than using subcategories under a parent of “Brands” we used tags.…
Read MoreHow to Publish your iWeb site with FTP
Apple provides a very handy video on exactly how to do this! Just click here to watch it on the Apple website. You can also watch it using YouTube right here: When configuring your publishing location as FTP, fill in the host as ftp.yourdomain.com and use the FTP username and password as provided in the…
Read MoreWhy we love Canvas by WooThemes
This article is now depreciated. We haven’t worked with the Canvas theme in many years, having replaced it with the BeaverBuilder theme or GeneratePress. This WordPress Wednesday post is just a quick overview of the Canvas Theme and Framework from Woothemes. We’ve been following (and using) WooThemes since early late 2009. There are several framework…
Read MoreWhy content should be your number one website priority
Sitting down to build a website can be a daunting task. With so many different parts of the site to work with, there’s always a big long list of items to do, from moving the menu up a little to re-wording the about page, these tasks range from web design to content adjustments to typography.…
Read MoreWhat does your website do for your business
If you answered this question with “nothing” or “I’m not sure” it may be time to take a closer look at how your business operates online. For many companies, their website is merely an expensive business card and doesn’t encourage action from visitors or offer any added value. Good websites achieve their goals What should…
Read MoreTimThumb exploit and knowing what to do to protect your website
Yesterday, Mark Maunder at markmaunder.com happened to run across and identify a very dangerous and clever hack on his site. The hacker had gained access through the very popular TimThumb image library, and thus the first TimThumb Exploit was found. If you are interested in the specifics of the hack, more detailed information can be…
Read MoreWhy annual website audits are a necessity
At least once a year, Facebook updates their site with a major change to a previously neglected feature or layout. And like clockwork, within seconds, the complaints start rolling in. Facebook isn’t alone in this – every medium-to-large sized company involved with IT or who has a reasonably well-versed IT department knows that change is…
Read MoreYour Online Profile: Why social media is not enough
With the widespread use of social media as a ‘home’ for millions of people worldwide, many think the need for a website to represent a single person is no longer there. Why do you also need a website? Wouldn’t yet another place, beyond all my social media profiles, that represents ‘me’ simply add to the noise and confusion?…
Read MoreTop 9 Must Have WordPress Plugins
This article is now out of date. Since many of the plugins below are no longer maintained, we cannot recommend their use any longer. We’ve written a new article to replace it: Top 5 WordPress plugins. We spend a lot of time in the back end of a WordPress system. Whether we are helping clients…
Read MoreThe pros and cons of using a custom content management system
As a web hosting provider we see many websites every day and there is without a doubt a growing number of websites that use a content management system. If you are considering building a new website the decision is no longer whether to have a content management system, but which one to choose. There are a…
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