To remember once again…
I move sites a few times a year and every time it feels like the first time, to quote Foreigner. I really like this guy's tutorial using Backup Buddy - it's nice and clear. I'm [...]
August 2013
November 2017
Avada and WP 4.9
I'm getting more annoyed with 4.9 on the one site I updated... it warns you about editing your child theme saying that you really shouldn't edit the core file and should use a child theme. [...]
July 2013
Do NOT use i-Page for hosting
I'm seeing ads everywhere for iPage hosting and it is driving me absolutely crazy. I am running a shopping cart system by Woo Commerce and the client wants to /needs to use Fed Ex. I [...]
September 2012
WordPress and excessive p tags
I am attempting once again to use the GetShopped! gold cart for a shopping cart. This one is relatively simple because there are only two product types; cds and mp3 downloads. Simple. Right. I just [...]
March 2012
Free or Cheap Shopping Cart Software
I've worked with several free or low-cost e-commerce shopping carts. Here is my review of several of them. This is from a designer's perspective, as one who can hack a bit of code, but not [...]
April 2017
A Fix for the Ineffective Avada Child Theme Style Sheet
Update 1/31/2018: I finally got it worked out... at least for now, with help from a support ticket at Avada. The Dynamic js/css settings need to be set to compile the js, and set the [...]
August 2012
Windows Live Mail, Office 365 Exchange, Sky Drive, Plesk: Kill them all.
Lately I've been spending less time coding and designing web sites and more time troubleshooting Microsoft products. It wouldn't be so bad except that there are so many other options available that just plain WORK [...]
August 2016
Avada and the Ever Changing Header: text instead of a logo.
Sometimes you just want to change something really simple, or at least, it used to be really really simple, back in the old days where you just plopped your html into a file, renamed it [...]
August 2012
The Dead Chicken Instructional Conundrum
It came in conversation to the topic of chickens, since we were sitting in a yard that had a few running around, and others in the group also had chickens in their yards. The "beer [...]
April 2016
Website Crimes With WordPress Images (or, five most common WordPress image mistakes)
Having worked on a variety of websites for a wide variety of clients and businesses, I often run into the same problems again and again, when business owners are trying to build sites themselves, usually, [...]