About a month ago, all the admin sides of all WordPress sites I manage started displaying notices that WordPress 3.0 was available, please upgrade. I keep each site automatically backing up its own database, so I ploughed ahead, confident I could fix anything that could go wrong, even if I…
In the last few months, I’ve been called upon several times to recover web sites from hacker damage. Two were WordPress sites , and one was a Joomla site that was repeatedly hacked. Some hacks are pretty funny — some teenager strutting his testosterone by replacing your front page with…
This afternoon I had the occasion to sit with a client who had a particular “sexy” domain name in mind: Secret<redacted>.com . She had been watching it for about 4 weeks – several times bringing up GoDaddy’s front page to reassure herself it was still available. She already owned two…
Although I live in Tucson, Arizona, and most people here expect that if you’re bilingual, you speak English and Spanish, the luck of my particular circumstances has enabled me to develop web sites for several individuals and groups who speak various Eastern European languages. Add on top of that a…
If you want a web site that puts you more in touch with your customers than a few unchanging static pages, then the open source WordPress Content Management System might be just the ticket for you. It enables people who don’t like getting bogged down in HTML and Javascript to…
