I was hacked on May 27th, 2015. It started with one site. Seven sites on the server were hacked three days after that. I discovered it by accident 33 days later. Back in February I decided I should secure my WordPress sites. WordPress is frequently a target for hacking, and I was sure my sites […]
Last year I was spending increasing amounts of time working on WordPress and noticed that I was having a hard time finding good plugins for specific tasks, e.g. adding custom content types. WordPress boasts an impressive number of plugins (over 30,000 free ones), but finding good plugins can be a frustrating experience. WordPress’ own search […]
I’ve received my fair share of white papers and other reports in my years. Many times they have lousy designs. Sometimes they’re beautiful though, as I noticed with a recent example SEO audit I found. But how do you create good looking reports without being a graphic designer? Or becoming a master of InDesign or […]
Are you setting up Google Apps’ email and seeing the message stating “We are checking MX records for your domain. This may take 48 hours to complete” for more than 48 hours? If so, this post should help you to fix it. I ran into this problem setting up a site recently. I set up […]
I watched Amy Hoy’s Stacking the Bricks presentation today and found it useful, and so I’m sharing the notes I took while watching it. Amy starts by talking about 37signals, a company that makes a variety of simple, useful webapps for small businesses/teams. Products like Basecamp, for project management. 37signals built a successful company on […]
Recently I had the good fortune of winning $1000 and being featured in the local news. Here’s how it happened. In the middle of March I was doing some research for a blog post and I came across a contest that Zappos was running. I had recently decided that I was spending too much time […]