Places listings are FREE, and will benefit all local businesses. Here’s where to get started: Google Places for Business Yahoo Small Business Bing Places for Business Apple Maps Connect Facebook also serves as an excellent local marketing page; make sure your address and a map are on your page. Also see, How is Your Business […]
Amazon web services (AWS) provides management consoles for its S3 (simple storage service), Glacier (deep storage), Cloudfront (streaming), and other services that are satisfactory for cursory use, but are not well suited for extended managment, large file uploads, etc. Most users turn to a third-party interface to manage their Amazon S3, Glacier, and Cloudfront accounts. Cyberduck is a cross-platform client […]
A variety of resources are available to check for unsecured (insecure) content on a site with SSL installed. WhyNoPadlock provides a good summary for issues on specific pages. The Jitbit SSL check crawls the site and identifies issues on multiple pages (200 page max). Resolving Unsecured Content on Secured Pages by Volusion provides some good […]
I use a couple of services to fax documents from my computer to a fax machine. Most of these offer free and premium options. To Send Faxes GotFreeFax.com will fax documents for free (up to 2 per day, 3 pages per fax max); their premium service is around 10 cents per page. FaxZero.com also sends […]
Update on Jan. 8, 2016. Little Hotelier offers a very competitive package, and I have added a new free booking engine to the list, WP My Bookings. Some good booking engines are available for small hotels and lodges. The features that I was searching for included integration of a property management system (PMS) showing rooms […]
This post highlights some plugins (mostly premium) currently available for streaming audio and video content stored on Amazon S3 servers. Amazon S3 provides robust and economic cloud storage for audio and video files–streaming processes are, however, still evolving. Current operating systems and browsers make use of two technologies to render video streaming, Flash and HTML5, and […]
Domains communicate via domain name server (DNS) settings; if your website is not resolving properly, here is a brief list of tools that can help figure out why. These tools include DNS and WhoIs lookups: Leaf DNS – checks the DNS configuration across the web, as does IntoDNS. DNS Stuff – has a wide range […]
Site migration (cloning) and installation of an SSL Certificate on a WordPress install both require database modifications of URLs. Plugins make migration of a site to a new domain relatively easy. Recently, I have successfully used both WP Clone by WP Academy and Duplicator to migrate or close sites; I can recommend both of them. A couple of […]
My favored ‘button generators’ these days are J Shortcodes and Forget About Shortcode Buttons. J Shortcodes buttons are generated by shortcode specifications, which give a fair bit of control over the resulting button – see the J Shortcodes documentation. The icon library is, however, small: SvegliaT Buttons is a clean simple button generator that produces attractive […]
Image gallery plugins with lightbox (slideshow) options can be hard to select.Some options for the native WordPress gallery are presented below. Two favored WordPress image gallery plugins are: Nextgen / Nextgen Pro ($97) – click here. Photo Gallery / Photo Gallery Pro ($30-$60) – sales page – see demo links at top of page – What […]