It may not be what you thought when you saw this video, but what I thought was, brilliant strategic advertising! Here is a company that I assume discovered or purchased the ability to determine your geographical makeup from the DNA of a saliva sample. Did they create marketing and sales material saying, “Discover your geographical […]
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Scam Targets Web Designers Developers
I am a web designer in Napa, CA. I am sharing this so as to warn other un-suspecting web designers and developers – beware. Don’t waste your time as I did in back and forth conversations. This person is trying to scam you. And if they are, you can forward the email to me@rescam.org and […]
Recommended Invoicing Service
FreshBooks :: Cloud based accounting and invoicing Freshbooks is the #1 cloud-based accounting invoicing software designed exclusively for service-based small business owners, with more than 10 million users worldwide. I have been using Freshbooks for about 7 years to create and send invoices to my clients. Clients can pay me by check or click a […]
How to Find Non-Secure Content on Secure HTTPS pages
If you install an SSL certificate on your website and find that your browser is not displaying the safe padlock because you have non-secure page content on it, then it can be hard to identify exactly what needs fixing if you don’t know the proper tools to use. That is the purpose of this post. In […]
How to Export a Custom Size in Sketch
I am a web designer in Napa, CA. I use the Sketch App to design websites. Recently I created a graphic that turned out to be a little smaller than I wanted when I was done. So I wanted to export it from sketch at a size several pixels larger than I had created it. […]
Where are my WordPress Revisions?
Are you wanting to review or revert back to a previous revision of your work within a WordPress website? Does it seem like WordPress Revisions is not working? Do you only have a few revisions showing for a page or post in your WordPress install and you know you made more changes? I had that […]
How to Engage with Social Media
I ran across this article and useful infographic on how to engage with each of the most popular social media platforms. This is just a short share of a post. The infographic The article: How to Build a Social Media Marketing Strategy for Your Business
You thought Go Pro was cool. Check out Lily!
This camera will fly around you and take videos and photos. Just throw it into the air, or into the water, (it’s waterproof too). Check out their website and watch the product video. Technology and ingenuity.
Backup your website
I have a client whose website I made and for whose website I provide hosting. I also offer a backup service where his website is backed up every day, every week and every month with 3 of each of those backups retained off site on Amazon S3. So he has a backup going back 3 […]
Can’t send emails to AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail
Are you having trouble sending emails to people who have AOL email addresses, or yahoo email addresses, or hotmail email addresses? Are you trying to send that email from an email address with your own domain name or your business domain name that is hosted on a shared hosting service? i.e. mark@mybusiness.com. (See below for more of […]