I wrote this post initially as a description to my portfolio project: Rusty Wood Trading Co. It became much longer so I decided to convert it into a How-to blog post instead. For an online business, a reliable order form is crucial for sales … [Read more]
Excluding Internal Traffic from Google Analytics
As a web manager, you'll want to exclude your IP address from Google Analytics, such that you are tracking only external traffic. To do this, you'll need to set up filters on Google Analytics. Detailed instructions are found here: Excluding … [Read more]
Troubleshooting: Menu links all redirect to the home page
Last week, my client encountered a problem on their website that redirected all their main menu pages to the home page. This happened last month to one page and eventually found a redirection was added for that particular page. I removed it and … [Read more]
Writing for the Web: Content Style Guide
What is a content style guide? It is a set of rules to define how the content of your website should look. Too many times, after a site is launched by a developer and handed over to its owner (and sometimes its many contributors) the look of the … [Read more]
How to Update Your WordPress Website
The great thing about having a WordPress website is you don't need to know how to code to update it. It is very user-friendly. That's why I provide training sessions for my clients to update it themselves. This is a basic guide to updating … [Read more]
Web Trends: Subtle Animations
With the start of the new year, I bring out my fengshui book to determine which web trends are going to make me big bucks as a web designer, ie. I google "web trends 2016". I flip through a few websites, and all of them sound pretty much the same. … [Read more]