Especially in January, you start thinking about copyrights on your websites. This is one of those maintenance tasks ripe for a programmatic solution. No reason to manually update the years on your website's copyright year after year. Here are a few good options for creating an automatically updating copyright year on your website.
Gmail Users: are you stuck in an Unsubscribe loop?
There's an easy fix. Instead of using the marketing email's Unsubscribe link, use Gmail's Unsubscribe functionality! Here's how.
How do I learn the basics of web design?
Recently a client asked me if I had any recommendations for resources, classes, or tips for how to learn the basics of web design. This particular client is an employee of a company utilizing HubSpot for their blog. She is tasked with making landing pages and updating blog posts in HubSpot and is eager to learn more about websites and code. If this sounds like you, then you'll enjoy these...
Add a “How did you hear about us” question to your Shopify store
Today, I was working on adding the question "How did you hear about us" to a client's Shopify store. Fortunately, Shopify has a great document with how-to-steps "Ask how customers heard about your store." This Shopify document walks you through how to add a snippet to your code base, include the snippet in your cart, update configurations, make the form a required element, and add this customer...
I updated my macOS, and now Git doesn’t work in the Terminal
If you're a Mac user and have updated your macOS recently, you may need to run this command in your Terminal to keep using Git commands.
Do Google customer reviews really matter?
Absolutely! Yes, Google customer reviews are critical to your local company's online credibility. Read on for tips for the best Google Reviews.
Tips for getting into a locked WordPress site hosted on GoDaddy
Frustratingly, I find that I'm almost always locked out of my client's websites hosted on the Managed GoDaddy Wordpress plan, but there is a workaround. Here's what to do.
Tips for preparing customer lists for email marketing
Ensuring you send your company's email marketing to the right customers is critical to campaign success. Here are some tips I implement.
How to Embed a LinkedIn Post with iFrame on Your Website
LinkedIn, like most social networks, allow users to embed posts into social streams and unto their websites. Here's how.
How to insert an iframe from Adobe Animate into a WordPress website
Recently I created an interactive animation in Adobe Animate. The Adobe Animate part was relatively straightforward, but embedding the exported code into my WordPress website was tricky. This blog post shares what I learned and additional resources I found helpful.