Website and Digital Marketing Tips
Setting Up Akeeba Backup and Watchful to Back Up Remotely
When I first started using Watchful Dashboard to secure, update, and backup my Joomla websites, it took me a little time to figure out the remote backups because Watchful's FAQ on the subject is not up to date. Plus I received some errors because I needed more...
Using Excel Filter to Delete or Keep Rows Containing Specific Text or Values
How do you remove rows with certain text or values from a spreadsheet if the cells don’t match exactly. Use the filter function!
5 Essential WordPress Plugins
Whenever I install WordPress for a website, these are the plugins I always install. All have free versions that work just fine #1 Duplicator for backing up the site I've tried several backup plugins and this is the only one I'll use now because a backup plugin without...
Changing the Order of Modules in Joomla 3.x
When I upgraded to Joomla 3.x, I had some trouble figuring out how to change the order of the modules. Even after I figured it out, the drag and drop wasn’t working for me until I figured out one tiny requirement.
Free Looping Videos
I just found out about FancyFootage.club, a site that offers 5 free looping videos each month for use in design projects. You do have to sign up with your email address. Looping videos can be used for many different projects -- websites, presentations, and so forth. I...
100 Free High Quality Photos from Tookapic
I'm always looking for new high quality photos for my websites and my blogs, so I was very excited to find Tookapic community. These photos are a variety of topics -- animals, landscapes, people, food, and more. And they are all free -- they are licensed under the CC0...
How to Sign Up for Hostmonster
To sign up for a Hostmonster account, first click this link (affiliate link) You will see a page that looks like the image below. Click on "Sign Up Now." The next screen will ask you to select your plan. (Note that the sale prices are for the initial term only and...
Go for Launch: How Can You Be Sure When Your Customer Is Ready?
This is something I learned the hard way. Get specific approval from your customers before going live, even if you feel like you are being too much of a stickler. One developer I worked with made requested changes to a web page and showed it to the customer. The...
Where to Find Images for Your Web Site
One of the questions I'm asked most often about web site design is "Where can I find images to use on my web site?" Here are some sites where you may find images to use. (Disclosure: We receive compensation from the companies whose products we review. We test each...
Getting and Sending Your Domain Email in Yahoo
So you have a brand new business website with new email accounts with your business domain. On the other hand you have the email client (where you read your email) that you have been using for years -- in this case, Yahoo (I'll cover Gmail later). You want to be able...
Using Google Alerts for Social Media Posts
So you have yourself a brand new Twitter account for your business. Now what do you do? You want to post tweets that will attract clients and followers. You know (or will learn) that tweets with pushy sales pitches or details about your lunch will only turn off...
Resolution for: It seems you arrived at this page from a search engine. To help you find what you were looking for, we’ve highlighted your search terms
This one was a real stumper because in all the Joomla websites I've designed, I've never seen this come up. In fact, I thought it was a browser add-on issue at first. The issue: Joomla 1.5.2x install When the user put the domain name in a search engine field, and then...
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