SEO – Buying Traffic
We have heard this story many times, where a well meaning business owner wants more website traffic and buys in to “buying traffic”. While this might seem like a good idea, but there is a major difference between traffic and actual consumers. This deviation is vast, as the traffic that these black-hatters (see black hat definition) provide is artificially generated. They use a program that repeatedly requests to load multiple website pages. They use a set of proxies that will make the requests look like they are coming from all...
read moreThoughts on Object Oriented CSS
If content is King then performance is Queen. In today’s world of insanely fast internet connections, the effects of spaghetti code on load times are becoming increasingly more noticeable. There are developers whose entire career is built on refactoring code for better performance. You hear about this type of work often in the realm of Javascript, PHP or Ruby but it’s often overlooked when dealing with CSS. Bloated CSS is less expensive than a bloated JavaScript function at load time. If you’re trying to write code...
read moreThe Complete Guide to Migrating an instance of WordPress
Hi Folks. I’ve been learning and tinkering with WordPress for quite some time now and it’s been quite an adventure to say the least. This very web site is a WordPress theme believe it or not. One downfall that any new WordPress developer will run into is: How do I move this code to a different environment and get it to work? In my initial google searches on the topic I was surprised to find that there was not a guide published anywhere that had all of the necessary steps. Most of the helpful tutorials that I could find only contained...
read more“…. My cousin Joe can make me a website for under $100!”
We hear this a lot. However, when we visit said, cheap website, it is painfully obvious that Uncle Joe built it, and the treasured $100 was sadly wasted. This same scenario holds true for the “build it yourself” websites we see. If you are a seasoned business owner, you are most familiar with the old saying, ”You get what you pay for.” If you are a new entrepreneur, you may be thinking $100 for a website is a good idea. Spend more of your funding on more important things, right? Would you ask your Uncle Joe to give...
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