Content Management Systems
A content management system (CMS) allows anyone with simply a valid username and password to make changes, additions or revisions to your website without ANY special knowledge or training. We typically use WordPress, which is the most common of such systems by far. This is completely free and easy to use and update. When we integrate […]
Continue Reading...Customized Live Chat App
A live chat app is a convenient way for website visitors to instantly get the information they are seeking. Many people (including myself) click the button to start a live chat as soon as they enter a site that offers such a service. It’s a way to directly communicate with a company representative without having […]
Continue Reading...The IP Address Geo-location API We Use
I had found an excellent IP address Geo-location API a few months ago to enhance a simple chat application I made for a church’s website. The nice things about this API are that it is automatically updated and kept current, the response time is very fast, the output is very easy to use XML, and […]
Continue Reading...T-shirt customization website designed
I stepped into Mr. Mugs & Awards in Hamburg, NY a few months ago and handed one gentleman our brochure, and was immediately presented with questions about designing a website capable of customizing text on a shirt imprint, and then handling the custom shirt as an e-commerce object for purchase with PayPal or something similar. […]
Continue Reading...A website with advanced AJAX navigation designed
I’ve recently had the pleasure of converting someone’s PDF mockups to a fully functioning website. This job came from freelancer.com, and happens to be my first bid on that site that was (honestly) accepted. The employer (Niklas Olsson) wanted to remake his personal website: niklaso.com into something completely custom, impressively smooth and easy to navigate. […]
Continue Reading...Timeclock web app created from scratch in one evening
Tom was keeping track of the hours he spent on a particular project in a notebook for a while, which seemed adequate, but not ideal. “Tom,” I said, “how about we create a web page that acts as a time clock: we can have a MySQL database of employees (ourselves), customers, projects, and sessions with […]
Continue Reading....htaccess redirects may conflict with WordPress’s URL structure
Since we updated our site, the location of some pages has moved to a different URL address. Search engines have already indexed these pages to be in the old location, and if it turns up as 404 (missing), my SEO rank will be harmed as they try to find the new URL. The ordinary way […]
Continue Reading...Dividing text into columns with PHP script
I prefer to display text so that it can be read easily, as a book. Naturally, web pages stretch the text across the entire width of the column, which is usually too wide for comfortable reading. Books are divided into narrower columns so you don’t lose your place when you get to the end of […]
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