Improving the functionality and speed of your website is always a priority at Flying Change. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is to leverage browser caching. What is browser caching? Every time a browser loads a webpage it has to download all the web files to properly display the page. This includes all… [Read More]
Adding the [Read More] Link in Genesis
One of the wonderful thing about wordpress is that it allows you to use excerpts of your full post as a “teaser” to for your readers. However, at the end of the excerpt, a standard […] appears where the text stop. The problem is that it doesn’t link to the rest of the story. I… [Read More]
SEO Basics: Beyond the Keywords
A recently client said to me “I want to make sure my new website shows up on Google”. Of course, that’s the goal of many clients who come to me looking for a professionally designed website. And I hear these questions a lot. So, in one place you can find your answers to the basics… [Read More]
Your New Website – Getting Started with Keywords
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]