Your website is the critical component of your Profit Stack, but without a systematic approach, it often turns into a maintenance headache that leaks margin through slowness and downtime. The articles below provide technical insights into website and wordpress management – from troubleshooting broken migrations to selecting hosting that actually performs. These resources are designed to help you move from reactive “fixing” to operating a standardized system, ensuring your digital shopfront remains an unshakeable foundation that supports your business without constant intervention.
Using Log Parser on IIS Log files to get data on bandwidth usage. I came across the need recently to gather information on traffic on each site hosted on a Windows IIS 7 server. to get the breakdown across each site, I needed to set up the log files to log all of the bytes-in […]
Before you build an app, or mobile website you should consider the ongoing work you need to do that will keep people coming back. For that you need a plan to get people engaged and excited about you. Here are 5 tips for your mobile engagement strategy that will help keep your app full: 1. Engage […]
Are Android / iPhone / Windows phone designs really that different? Can we create just one design / experience for all of them? At a talk I attended recently, Geoff Bowers of Daemon illustrated their challenges in delivering the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) suite of web information systems, web sites, data processing and mobile accessible […]
How do you measure the success of your mobile app? What ways can you see your return of a mobile app? How do you know it’s meeting your targets? Whenever you take on an IT project or when you spend money on your business, you always need to know how your a re going to […]
What is your return on investment of a mobile strategy? Can you earn money through advertising? People put simple applications out for sale on the app stores for $0 (free) – so how do they make money? Lets look at how to make money from mobile apps in 5 different ways Banner advertising Advertising can […]
There is a little known feature in the WordPress 3.x version that allows you to apply a CSS class to individual menu items. This video shows you how to apply the CSS class to the menu item, and providing you have the companion CSS written your menu items can behave in a different manner.
Sometimes you can’t or don’t have access to the BrightCove API and are sent just the basic embed code for your site. This has javascript in it, and WordPress strips it out by default, so this video shows you how to embed a bright cove video without a plugin, and using the HTML tab.
When you are running your WordPress blog in development, probably on your home or work machine you will need to be able to update plugins, themes and WordPress itself. When you attempt to update a theme, wordpress or plugin you may get “WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your ftp credentials to […]
Pinterest is the next big thing – why? Because the user base is massively in favour of females. This is a new phenomenon in social networking, and its growing FAST! This small tutorial will show you how to add Pinterest pin it button for images on your site. I have had the pleasure of doing […]
Recently I discussed how to set up HTTP Compression in IIS 6 using its native gzip support. Here are a couple of tools you can use to verify your compression is set up correctly. Both tell you pretty much the same information, simply enter your URL and it tells you the result, and how much […]
I recently moved my site from PHP over to ColdFusion, and this gave me a nice warm fluffy feeling. However, some of the articles I posted actually received a fair amount of traffic, so I had to leave a few php pages in the system and ask them to redirect to the new and improved […]
Recently I started to get a lot of junk in my in-box through the contact form. This was all generated by spam bots on the net so I added in the new feature of human evaluation by use of the image with a number on the contact and comment forms to slow the junk entering […]
