Website development industry news, Likoma news, news you can maybe use.
Ask the Salesman, but also Ask the Mechanic
Who knows a WordPress theme better: someone who is selling it on the front lines or someone who is maintaining it in the trenches?
Faces of WordPress Project: “WordPress or Nothing”
How does WordPress change people's lives? Hannah Levinson is going to find out in her series "Faces of WordPress."
Flattery Will Get You … Spam?
Did someone leave a nice comment on your site? Hmm, look closely, it might be spam. Sorry!
No is an OK answer.
Email can be a very direct medium of communication. Try to structure questions to remove any doubt--and reduce the amount of back and forth.
Happy Birthday WordPress!
Can you think of other software that's 10 years old and so popular? WordPress has the birthday hat on at the head of the table and is beaming with pride.
WOO Themes Responsive to my Responsive Design Challenge
Why am I Only Using WordPress Themes from Reputable Companies? They're responsive to my responsive design dilemma.
Google Apps No Longer Free
Google has announced a change to Google Apps that ends the option to create free accounts for groups of 10 or fewer users. Ow, that hurt.
Exact Match Domains
Should you buy the domain "luxuryleathergoods.com" or "luxeleather.com"? If you're just going for Google rankings, the latter might be better.
” … in most cases, their goal is to keep knowledge to themselves and create dependence. Bradley is the opposite.”
I have worked with many consultants and find that in most cases, their goal is to keep knowledge to themselves and create dependence. Bradley is the opposite.
Should I Blog?
When setting up websites for new businesses, I get this question extremely often. But a bigger, scarier question is: does it matter?
Likoma Switches to WOO Canvas (Commerce)
It's that time again and this time, I just couldn't wait. We switched Likoma to WOO Canvas (Commerce) today! Woot for WOO!
Bacon Ipsum
Tired of lorem ipsum? This is WAY more fun: bacon ipsum.
Old version of TimThumb detected in your theme folder. Click here to update.
WOO themes use a theme framework and that makes it easy to update. Who cares about easy to update? You do. Why do you care? Because it makes it easier to fix security breaches like this one with a single click.
Responsive Design
Responsive Design. What does it mean? In my non-techy world, that the design (of the website) adapts to the screen it's on. So that if you have a monster widescreen, an iPhone or a laptop, the screen adjusts accordingly.
BuddyPress
BuddyPress can turn your WordPress site into a full-blown socially-connected, discussion, Facebook-like, powerful community site.