WordPress Security Best Practices
A long overdue follow up to my immensely popular almost perfect WordPress htaccess file article. This article of best practices should give you several more tricks up your sleeve to keep your WordPress installation secure and running smooth & below the radar of hackers and...
And the love kickstarts again
A couple weekends ago I decided this blog … my blog and official home on the web needed a redesign, rebuild and re…. well everything. Not wanting to get bogged down in the details of design, I installed an excellent theme from Elegant Themes and set to work making it feel...
19 Things A Business Owner Can Do to Torpedo Their Website Project
In my 10 years of professional website design and development experience I have seen and heard it all when it comes to client and business owner web project dysfunction. This is not to say I don’t love my clients. Did I mention I love my clients? Because I do. They pay my...
I’m Stuck – Random Design Idea Generator
I fashion myself a bit of a web designer, and sometimes after slaving away on a client’s web design proof for hours, I run into a wall of uncreative energy or as I call it “shit out of ideas”. I have found that many times the path around or through this wall is not...
Ebay User Experience Fail
So I recently purchased a classic Xbox game (which ended up sucking, more on that later) on Ebay and while the transaction went perfectly smooth, I noticed a small glitch in their post-purchase ‘leave feedback’ follow up. It’s been almost 5 weeks since the auction...sponsors
About Me
Josiah Cole is a professional web designer and developer with over 11 years of experience helping small businesses succeed online. With expertise gained not only in web technology but also business, Josiah shares his insights (and rants) with his visitors at this blog.