Monkey business for the geek in you!
If you have been working with Netapp Clustered Data Ontap for a while now you would no doubt have performed quite a few volume moves. However one limitation of the volume move command was that you couldn’t move the volume between storage virtual machines (SVM’s) Let’s Welcome the Volume Rehost Feature of Ontap 9 Starting…
WordPress got its start as a blogging platform over a decade ago, but it’s grown into a full-blown CMS (content management system) since then. I got my start with WordPress within the first couple of years after it got started. I used it for blogging, but as its capabilities grew, I started using it for…
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Styling Checkboxes & Radio Buttons” This quick tutorial will specifically help you change all your checkboxes and radio buttons to use icons from the Divi font library (as seen in the blurb module). Here’s the key to it all: you can’t style checkboxes and radio buttons. They’re form…
There is a WordPress redirect functionality built into core which is designed to catch wrong URLS. When an incorrect URL is requested, WordPress tries to locate the correct URL and will redirect the visitor to the correct URL if it can find it. On hand one this is great, but let’s take a deeper look…
Oh, look! That plumber I met randomly in a smelly networking meeting sent me an email. Oh no… it’s a newsletter! I keep getting these awful small-business newsletter, whether they are solicited or not, where they are filled with stock photos and no substance whatsoever. They appear to be written by some copywriter that lives…
What are the secrets of scaling awesome support? We ask the experts presiding over support for multi-million dollar businesses for their insights and strategies for scaling quality customer support. Working out how to successfully scale support as you prosper is essential to the long-term success of your business. We reached out to 22 of the biggest names in…
No matter how many times you multiply a zero, the grand total of all multiplications will always be zero. Similarly, you cannot make money with zero investment. If success came at no cost, everybody would be a millionaire, right? So, you must spend money to make money from any business and it’s the same with “making money…
As each year winds to a close, consumers eagerly anticipate what the next one has in store for technology, and 2016 is no exception. We love our gadgets, and companies love to leak information about the freshest trends to hit the market in the new year. So what does technology have in store for H2…
Hello my name is Kurt Francom and this is one of hundreds of videos where I answer some of the most commonly asked questions related to small business web design and I am standing in front of a pine tree.. Today’s question is “Why is a Thank You Page so Important on a Website?” Well…
Changing careers can be nerve-wracking. Sometimes it happens gradually, as you learn new skills or take on some new responsibilities in your current job (or take on a side hustle or two). Other times it might happen suddenly: you lose your job and decide to dive into something new. My own career path has been…
Desk.com, states: 72% of people think that self-service is a fast and easy way to resolve issues. Not only that, 40% of customers proceed to phone support only after they DON’T find their answers using the self-service option. So it’s clear: support content in the form of FAQs and more are the modern day user’s…
Hello this is Kurt Francom and this is one of hundreds of videos where I answer some of the most commonly asked questions small businesses ask about website. Today’s question is “Why is it important to have a great headshot on your website?” Great question. The reality is, when you see a human face, your…
As part of our effort to build a localized Spanish-speaking support team, the Happiness Hiring team at Automattic recently had the opportunity to connect with WordPress communities in Argentina and Spain. From speaking engagements to networking events, our trip was a great way to meet local communities that are passionate about WordPress and exemplary customer support. Last year at…
Hello this is Kurt Francom with Fiddler Online and this is one of hundreds of videos where I answer the most commonly asked questions relating to small business web design. Today’s question is How do I get a new business logo? And it’s a great question because individuals that are getting a new website are…
The Cisco Nexus 9K’s have been out for a little while now, however it has only been recently that the support for FCoE have come to these switches. However, the support for FCoE is only as an NPV edge switch, meaning that it basically passes through FCoE traffic to another FCoE switch. The other FCoE…
Launching your WordPress site is just the beginning of its life on the web. You’ve conceived and birthed your baby… but now you’re in charge of feeding and protecting it.
Owning a website is a responsibility.
There’s a lot to consider, more than most people realize when they are just starting out. Neglecting your site means it could get hacked, suffer from broken links, or an unplanned update breaking your contact form. Any of which could result in lost search engine rankings, decreased traffic and/or lost leads.
Here are some of the main tasks you’ll have to do on a regular basis to keep your site in excellent health.
It’s Theme Thursday, and I’m excited to present a new free theme called Karuna! Karuna Karuna, designed by Mel Choyce, is a clean business theme designed with health and wellness-focused sites in mind. With bright, bold colors, prominent featured images, a sleek responsive design, and support for customer testimonials, your business’ brand is sure to shine with Karuna. Read moreHow…
Every WordPress.com site displays a footer credit — a line of text at the bottom of the page — which links to our homepage and to the theme you’re currently using. These links help your visitors set up a WordPress site of their own, and highlight the reach and scope of our community. It’s a way to show the world the…
As WordPress developers, we often need to retrieve posts, pages and other content matching specific criteria from the database. Usually, we don’t need to build SQL queries (and often we shouldn’t) because the WP_Query class and its methods provide us with a safe and efficient way to retrieve data from the database. We just need to…