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During Thanksgiving week, I got away for a couple of days. I went to Branson, Missouri to have some fun time. You know Branson. It is a little like Vegas minus the booze and casinos and in the heart of the beautiful Ozark Mountains. The beautiful Ozark Mountains via Unsplash While we were in Branson, we saw a film at the Imax theater. The film was called National Parks Adventure. The film was a documentary on the national parks, but Continue reading the post...

A few months ago, I took a coffee brewing class. The local coffee shop offered the class, and I jumped at the chance to make a better pour over brew at home. I learned a lot about the process, but I don’t really feel like I am that much better. I learned about things that made a difference with pour-overs including water temperature, grams of coffee, the type of grind, and the way one pours the water. Naturally, you have to have Continue reading the post...

When is the least time you have received someone’s thanks for the work you have done? Just the other day, I was working at the local coffee shop. One of my clients came in and, as he often does, sits at the same table with me. My cool new Yeti Thermos After a few minutes, he got out and went to his car. I thought it was a little odd, but I really didn’t think about it. A few minutes Continue reading the post...

I worked at a car dealership once. If you want to become humbled, I advise you to work at a car dealership. You become a hired gun (actually commission based) to go onto the parking lot hunting potential victim – I mean buyers. There were a lot of problems with this model of employment that did not work for me. I learned what I didn’t want to do, and I found out that for the very last time. As a Continue reading the post...

We spent much of our time in the first post (see here) talking about the need for Web Accessibility as well as how to implement for content. In this article, we are going to look at implementing from a theme perspective, as much as possible. I use a wireless mouse. I use two of them, one at home and one when I go to the coffee shop. Each one has one of those little things that go into the USB Continue reading the post...

So, let’s set the scene. You are a fantastic freelance developer, and you are doing pretty well, but you thought that you would take a part-time job for the holidays at a retail giant. After all, your projects slow down during that time, and you have extra time on your hands. Sounds good so far. via GIPHY You & Your holiday job Imagine going to apply for a job and being told by the retail company where you are applying with Continue reading the post...

In recent years, website owners have seen the need to convert traffic coming to their websites. In some cases, they are paying to get the traffic, so they want to see they haven’t wasted their money. This has given rise to online marketing, or the more popular term, inbound marketing. This is where landing pages come in. Landing pages help to convert traffic. The conversion may be for an email list, to get a quote, or it may be to Continue reading the post...

This past year, I became interested in and watched the TV series Mr. Robot on the USA Network. Mr. Robot is about a hacker who seeks to take down the powers to be, mainly E Corp, which he always hears as Evil Corp. Elliot is the lead character. He is a small, geeky hacker that, as the story begins, works for a contractor who helps monitor security for large corporations. E Corp is one of the clients. Hacking has all Continue reading the post...

Preface Over on the MainWP User group there was a few mentions on how well a small DigitalOcean Droplet performed with a large number of child sites.  I’ve never used a DigitalOcean droplet so decided to give it a test myself with the MainWP Dashboard on a Droplet and child sites on different non-DigitalOcean servers. Let me start this tutorial with one rather large caveat, if you are not someone who is familiar with servers you will need to read Continue reading the post...

Does this sound familiar? You have researched the idea and decided that you are ready for implementing some type of recurring revenue model. I like that too. You decided the quickest and most efficient way to get started is to launch a WordPress Care program. After all, you have several dozen current clients, and they don’t update their websites. Like, ever. In fact, last year, you had to fix a website that wasn’t updated and got hacked. So, you know Continue reading the post...