So you’ve finally decided to take the plunge and put your small business on the internet with a new website! You’ve found someone to design your website that can give your small business the individual attention it requires at a price it can afford. FANTASTIC! You’ve written the text, gathered your graphics and ready to… [Read More]
Does My Small Business Need a Website?
Question: Does my small business need a website? Wrong Answer: No, it’s too small. Correct Answer: ABSOLUTELY! It is a frequent misconception that your small business is “too small for a website”. Quite the contrary: If you own or operate a small business in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New England, or anywhere, for that matter,… [Read More]
Password Protecting PDF Files in WordPress
At Flying change Webs & Graphics, we often work with organizations that offer information for staff or membership only. WordPress has some nice password protection functions that are easy to use. However, the problem comes when using PDF files that need to be password protected as well as unseen on search engines. Sure, you can… [Read More]
The Changes Don’t Show On My Website
Having been involved in designing websites since 2000, there are many times when I’ll make a change on a website, load it live, let the client know the changes have been made, only to receive an email moments later in a panic “the changes are there”! What’s happening here is that the browser has cached… [Read More]
Exporting SQL from MAMP to Live
I finally found something that helped me upload from local to live. These area not perfect, but thanks to the “Students of Parsons“, I found this enough to help me. FROM LOCAL TO LIVE: EXPORTING WORDPRESS FROM MAMP View more presentations from Parsons
JJ Nextgen Jquery Carousel
We have many clients who want photo galleries and for one particular site, I thought the carousel would work. I wanted to put the carousel into the header but couldn’t find ANY documentation other than using the short code [jj-ngg-jquery-carousel html_id=”about-jcarousel” gallery=”2″ visible=”6″ scroll=”1″ auto=”1″]. That shortcode didn’t work in the header php. FINALLLY I… [Read More]
Creating A Sitemap in Dreamweaver CS5
As we were working on tranfering an old, out-of-date website into wordpress, we felt the burning need to have a computer-generated (instead of hand-configured) sitemap of the old version. We found that beginning with Dreamweaver CS4 the automatic site-mapper was “disabled” – but not gone. Quickly, we googled and found plenty on making quick and… [Read More]
Zen Cart
I have spent the last several days learning Zen Cart and implementing/upgrading the zen cart for a client. It wasn’t easy, but I’m almost complete. The hardest part was finding how to update the database “patch” as it said. I had to re-upload the zc_install folder, then run http://www.myclient.com/zen/zc_install/index.php and go step by step like… [Read More]
WordPress on Dreamweaver – The nightmare is over!
Last week I spent an entire day trying to work out how to get MAMP and wordpress to talk to each other so I could start designing wordpress websites and blogs directly on dreamweaver cs5. Today – at long last – I found a combination of two videos that did the trick. First, the MAMP… [Read More]
Black Boxes in Place of Images in Microsoft Word
I recently had a client who asked for some business cards using Avery Template 8371. Although the images showed up fine on my Windows 2008 for Mac saved as a .docx file, when saved as a .doc file for the clients pc version of word, the images changed to black boxes. “Humph!” I said scratching… [Read More]