Six Things You Will Need To Build A Great Website
You are passionate about your business and you are very excited about your new website. You hired a web designer to build your new site and you rare ready and raring to go. However, nothing seems to be going right... What happened? Looking back, your designer may have...
Tools of the trade you may not have considered
In which I look at some of the tools of the trade you may not have considered or known about... The great glory of WordPress is that it's so widespread and such a versatile platform. The great downside of WordPress is that it's so widespread and such a versatile...
Nice Changes To Facebook Page/Community Comment System
Life gets easier for Facebook Page and Community managers Anyone that has had to manage a Facebook community or page, knows the horrible pain it used to be to make or leave comments on their pages as yourself. It used to be that you'd have to go to the Page, click the...
WP Code Academy class #2
Learning #WordPress from the experts at the #WPAcademy taught by @webtegrity. 8 weeks of learning to… http://t.co/lO94KuBz2w #WPTestMonkeys — Scott A Croom (@ScottACroom) October 9, 2014 So, I work for a firm that does WordPress in San Antonio. We've got a very good...
5 Words Every Web Developer Hates Hearing
Those five words right there. "So, you do web design..." we all hate hearing them because we know what is coming up next. The great thing about working in web design is you will always have potential business. There are more crappy websites out there than one can...
Java Humor
Java. Ahhhhh Java. We love you and we hate you. However, I have a knock knock joke that anyone in web development should be able to relate to. I'm going to try and do more humor.
The Startup Creed
Inspired by and with much respect to the men and women of the US Marine Corps This is my startup. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me my startup is useless. Without my startup, I am...
Top 10 Productivity Tools for the WordPress Developer
We live and die on WordPress. That's a given. We had a long discussion here about what you actually need to develop WordPress sites. In theory, you could develop a WordPress site on a cell phone, but that would be an unwieldy project obviously. In fact, we were...
This is why we can’t have nice developers
Laurie Voss, CTO of NPM recently wrote one of the best written articles on hiring ever. It applies to my experience in the financial services field as well as the technical fields. I was a hiring manager for about 13 years of my 15 years on Wall St. I interviewed...
5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs To Be On Twitter
Twitter has evolved. What started out as a development tool quickly evolved into a medium for photographs of what people were eating. Since then, Twitter has evolved into a critical social media resource for consumers as well as businesses. The other day, I had...
Why Choose WordPress For Your Website?
Being a professional WordPress developer, I get bombarded with lots and lots of questions. While a majority of my clients already understand and appreciate the advantages using a WordPress CMS, I have been surprised by the question….Why should I choose WordPress for...
Why You Desperately Need A Mobile Strategy
Engadget did a great article recently about China and their mobile market that got me thinking. In China, mobile devices are far more commonly used to access the internet than desktop/laptop computers. This is also true in Asia as well as Africa and even large parts...
Bring Out Your Dead – Dev for IE
[youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs[/youtube] Monty Python said it best. “I’m not dead yet” “Yes you are” Conk. If you are developing for, or God forbid you use Internet Explorer, you need to be aware that if it’s not dead...
Top Social Media Plugins for WordPress
[youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sJSvPxSmOE[/youtube] Top Social Media Plugins for WordPress WordPress is one of the most popular platforms for managing your website. Literally 1/4 of all websites use WordPress as their CMS. What...
Top 6 Reasons Why Social Media Marketing Important
What is Social Media Marketing and Why Is It Important? Social media marketing is a powerful tool to help you reach your customers but there is a good chance you are doing it wrong. Here are some of the top bits of advice we give clients to understanding social media....
How To Push Tweets To Facebook
I mentioned in a previous post that you have the ability to push all your content from Facebook over to Twitter. I also discussed why and why not to do that. I won't go into it again but you do have the ability to push Tweets from Twitter over to Facebook. HOW TO...
How To Connect Facebook to Twitter & Why Not
This is a brief video I did for WebTegrity.com to explain how to go step by step to connect your Facebook account to Twitter. You can do the opposite as I mention in this other post. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS? The main reason you connect your Facebook to Twitter is...