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How to Develop on Live Web Sites Without Making a Complete Mess

How to Develop on Live Web Sites Without Making a Complete Mess

For many developers, there are *at least* two versions out there for any particular web site you see: a development version and a…
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What Is Bootstrap? How Can I Use It In Joomla 3?

What Is Bootstrap? How Can I Use It In Joomla 3?

Bootstrap is a big deal beginning with the Joomla 3.x releases, as it was not present in earlier versions of Joomla. Basically, Bootstrap…
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How Hacking Happens — How to Prevent Common Exploits, and What to Do If…

How Hacking Happens — How to Prevent Common Exploits, and What to D...

Quite unfortunately, one way that my company sometimes acquires new clients is after a hack when the client has searched out web developers…
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Highlights from “Techmanity,” Silicon Valley’s Attempt to Dovetail Tech Innovations and Nobility

Highlights from “Techmanity,” Silicon Valley’s Attempt to Dovetail ...

Here we are in mid-2017, and I’ve yet to hear of Silicon Valley’s re-attempting to hold another “Techmanity” conference. This isn’t perhaps…
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Has Your Site Disappeared from Google?

Has Your Site Disappeared from Google?

Is Google reporting 404 errors when your site is still there?
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Why Web Developers Are Efficiency Gurus, Illuminating Opportunities in Business and the Marketplace

Why Web Developers Are Efficiency Gurus, Illuminating Opportunities in Business and the Marketplace

What really excites most people about the web is subversion. Any time technology steps in to undermine the status quo, there’s a brouhaha …
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Why Most Business “Awards” Are a Scam, Preying on Pride

Why Most Business “Awards” Are a Scam, Preying on Pride

Years ago, one of my clients used to pridefully boast that he’d been recognized as one of the top consultants in his field. Here’s how that…
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Why It’s a Super-Good, Cost-Saving Idea for Your Web Development Company to Host Your Web Site

Why It’s a Super-Good, Cost-Saving Idea for Your Web Development Company to Host Your Web Site

Hosting plans aren’t commodities. Many years ago, my approach (as a web developer) toward a web site project would be to roll with whatever…
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Can You Use Your Own, Completely New, Made-Up HTML Tags Instead of Normal H1, H2, etc.?

Can You Use Your Own, Completely New, Made-Up HTML Tags Instead of Normal H1, H2, etc.?

I happened across a Stackoverflow (great site) post a while back where some kid was asking “Can I make up my own HTML tags?” Presumably…
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Should Businesses Hoard Domain Names? How Many Do You Own?

Should Businesses Hoard Domain Names? How Many Do You Own?

This is something I get asked about by clients and business owners probably once/month on average, for the past several years. More often…
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Facebook Share Dialog Box Not Showing Image the First Time You Share a Story?

Facebook Share Dialog Box Not Showing Image the First Time You Share a Story?

A few people have asked me lately about a specific problem with Facebook image sharing. Here’s what happens: When you post a new article…
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Integrating Zoho With a Web Site Via Zoho’s API

Integrating Zoho With a Web Site Via Zoho’s API

One key way may company identifies trends in the business web-world is by looking at how often we’re asked to provide specific services…
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PHP Update and CDN Implementation Stats for a Typical CMS-Run Web Site

PHP Update and CDN Implementation Stats for a Typical CMS-Run Web Site

I recently noticed that it had been a while since I updated the version of PHP running on a web site I’m hosting. I’d also not yet…
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