WordPress Update Disaster

August 19, 2022

When an update to your WordPress website breaks the website, who pays to get it fixed? A WordPress website must be continuously updated and tested throughout its lifetime to remain stable and secure. It is a basic cost of ownership issue no public-facing software system can avoid. And yet, there are business WordPress websites that…

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LastPass Remembers For You

June 1, 2022

LastPass lets you securely store login credentials (among other things) and then recall them as you are logging in. The service runs as a browser extension on desktop machines or as an app on mobile devices. I’ve been using it since 2013 and could not imagine my digital life without it. No, I’m not getting…

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Building For Maximum CMS Usability

April 14, 2022

I build websites on popular content management systems (CMS) because my clients need the ability to update content themselves. As I’m designing a website, I’m thinking about what it will take to train a non-technical person to update content in various pages, headers, and footers. The selected platform plays an important role in how well…

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The Basics of Setting Up and Using Google Optimize.

March 28, 2022

In this video I demonstrate how to connect your Google Analytics 4 account with Google Optimize in a WordPress website. Actually, this will work with just about any website, you just have to know where to place a couple of code snippets for your particular build. Your web designer should be able to help if…

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Michael LeGault’s New Website

March 24, 2022

Michael is a former Amazon employee and an established author with a great sense of humor. His background with Amazon is everything when it comes to this website: “In 2018 I joined Amazon at its Seattle headquarters as part of a team supporting the launch of the company’s dedicated logistics operations.” When he came to…

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Market Forces and Quality Assurance in the WordPress Ecosphere

September 20, 2021

Different companies and individuals create WordPress plugins and themes, all with their own quality assurance procedures and technical support practices. Some are better than others, and there’s no way to tell what you’re about to get yourself into without testing things out over time first.

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A Decade Of Rescuing Hacked WordPress Websites Reveals Dangerous Knowledge Gap

August 19, 2021

Every day, droves of WordPress websites hit the internet. And every day, creeps on the internet hit back. Hacked websites are common, regardless of platform, though many of the fallen got there because they did not know the appropriate precautions to take. I’ve been designing and building WordPress websites for government and private clients since…

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Visalia Breakfast Rotary’s New Website Is Live on SquareSpace.com!

August 5, 2021

The new website for Visalia Breakfast Rotary is now live! For this website we combined FlexTech Media’s RapidRollout package with SquareSpace web builders and web hosting technology instead of WordPress. This decision turned out to be the perfect scale of services needed to produce a website the client can content manage themselves. The website is…

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Mobile Trends Among Web Visitors

July 29, 2021

No matter how sophisticated a technology is, if the user experience is frustrating, it won’t last long. That same principle applies to your website and how well you serve your mobile visitors. An excellent way to check and see how your website is faring among the untethered is to implement Google Analytics. This system can…

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Visalia Rotary Community Foundation Website Goes Live

June 16, 2021

https://www.visaliarcfoundation.org was built on the latest version of SquareSpace. The Foundation’s new website is mobile-friendly and easy to update. A prime goal of the project was to deliver a website the client could update themselves, including adding and removing pages. The custom user guide, the videos referenced in the user guide, and screen-based training sessions…

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