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FREE WordPress plugin’s Can Cost You! Note: I have obscured the restaurants name and any other identifying details because the website owner is completely innocent of any wrongdoing and if anything is a victim of a plugin developer who is trying to profit from placing spam links inside their code. Because it is against my …

Dave Evan’s at the Cisco Blog posted the following infographic created by Cisco. The infographic below provides a visual representation of the increase in “things” connected to the Internet. With this increase, how will you prepare your network for the future? Looking over the information it is highly thought provoking. The fact that in 2008 …

I often find myself needing to match colors on a website or other marketing materials to existing pictures and logo’s. If there is good documentation this is a fairly straightforward and easy task. Since ELC is often brought on to freshen up a website or rebuild it from scratch, those documents are either long gone …

Creating a Style Blueprint for your Website is as simple as opening a Word document and making a list of common elements you will use on each page of your website. On your list put the types of fonts, photo sizes, linking schemes, how you use line breaks between paragraphs, line breaks after quotes and …

Hands down I prefer to work with a WordPress web site over any of the other content management systems out there. WordPress makes it simple to make code changes via the administrator “Editor” interface. Or you can directly edit the PHP code yourself. WordPress is fully customizable. A CSS tweak here and there, a PHP …

As always, all identifying information is removed to protect the privacy of others. Hi Leah, I enjoyed reading your comment to Mr. X about his website and I have a couple of questions about turning off java script. Why would searchers turn off java script? Also, I tried turning off java script and the site …

Notepad 2 is a very lightweight Notepad alternative. I am always a fan of free tools and programs. More often than not they run better and have all the functions you need minus the bloat and useless tools you don’t. I come from a Linux background and I love under dog products. I’d rather support …

You’ve built a fresh new website, used every SEO (search engine optimization) recommendation and have posted your new website for the world to see. What’s the problem? Can the world see your website? There are so many different browsers chance’s are high that a visitor has a browser that can’t view your website correctly. Every …

Recently I got a call from a client who found a visit from the Google Transcoder in their website’s statistic program. Understandably they were a bit confused. Basically Google sent a Transcoder spider to re-index their front page for mobile search. A few years ago Google developed the Wireless Transcoder to support viewing Gmail on …

Google does not always play fair when it comes to SEO. For the longest time Google viewed SEO as wrong and evil. Actively seeking to manipulate search engine results was a no-no. Of course, back then Google wasn’t very good at spotting Black Hat SEO techniques and most search results were filled with less than …