Notification Box for Old Content
This question came up from Jason Tucker and it will be the topic on WPwatercooler this Monday March 21st at 11am. The question was how to notify your site visitors that they are reading old content. What you shouldn’t do: Don’t delete the old content. People are getting to your site from old links but…
Choosing a Plugin is only half the solution
You’ve asked your friends. You’ve asked your networking groups. You even made a sacrifice to the techno gods to get the answer you need and no you have chose to buy Plugin X to because it will do “things”. Now you have bought (or a free one), installed and activated your plugin. Now the magic…
It’s Tuesday … Have you checked your contact form?
Does your contact form work? Are you sure? When is the last time you checked your contact form? Seriously though, check your contact forms at least every month or so.
Youtube Video Background with Aspire Genesis Theme
Aspire is a new theme from Appfinite for Genesis. It’s a great looking theme but a customer was asking if I could take it and put a video background to it. There are many ways to make a video background. Here are 2 options Option 1: Use a jquery plugin like bigvideo.js and then set…
Why doesn’t tech support ……
Why doesn’t tech support answer the phone? It’s usually because they are on the phone already. I know many of you hate Support Tickets but there is a reason to the madness of them. The main reason is so tech support people like myself can keep track of those we are helping. Why doesn’t tech…
You can’t just switch platforms
Has someone told you to “Just use Google Apps” (or anything else) Switching to a new service or product is always a good thing to consider especially if it helps your business make more money, gain effeiciency or just looks cool. The problems that arise are the things you have to perform when switching platforms. How much…
Service Contracts – Who Needs Them?
You do Who maintains your computers/networks/wireless/servers/WordPress etc, etc, etc? If you don’t have someone available when a problem arises then you are at the mercy of who has an open schedule. How much time should you allocate? This all depends on what type of technology you have in your office. Let’s pretend you have 1 Windows server…
Technology Moves Fast but the Change in Use is Faster
You now that life moves fast but technology moves fast as well. I’m not referring to advances in computing power or how tech becomes smaller/lighter/etc. I’m talking about implementation and use of technology in your business and communication. When you choose to implement a technology you need to embrace and use that technology. After you…
Where have I been and Where am I going
I can’t believe it’s been almost 2 years since my last post here at Your Local Tech. Actually I can, but still find it amazing. Why did I stop posting? Did I go out of business? Nope, still working tech and WordPress but I changed my focus in 2013. I paired down some of the…