It seemed like a no-brainer. For less than $100/year, your pals over at Godaddy, Bluehost, or HostGator would host your website for you. You heard about some of the better hosts but once you saw that they cost more, you ruled them out. It’s just hosting, right? Wrong! While it might seem like you’re saving money at first, I can … Read More
PageCrafter is Focusing on Visual Creators
We are pleased to announce that we are now focusing our efforts on clients that are “visual creators.” What are “visual creators” you ask? These are organizations like home builders, architects, and breweries that build or create something that we can show off with the right website design. We love big, beautiful, interactive websites. And we love working with those … Read More
Check if Your Website Supports TLS 1.2 – 1-Minute Tutorial
With the upcoming changes to PCI compliance and the whole credit-card industry, it’s important to ensure that your SSL encryption supports TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1. If you’re here, you more than likely received a letter or warning from PayPal or your credit card provider that you failed a test or otherwise need to verify support of these things. *Note: it’s … Read More
New Website for River School of Music
We’ve recently completed a very fun new website for the River School of Music in Burnsville, Minnesota. The client loves it, and we are extremely happy with the results. Website Features The site includes many features that make it attractive and functional. We built it to be fully mobile-friendly and responsive. Because many of the visitors to the site are … Read More
PCI-Compliant WordPress Hosting in Minnesota
If you’re here, you probably just learned that you need to be PCI-compliant and are in a scramble to figure out how to do that without breaking the bank. Very few providers have an easy solution for you, and the list of requirements might seem impossibly daunting. Never fear! We are here to help. We have an out-of-the-box solution that … Read More
Top 9 Biggest Problems with Small Business Websites
We works with tons of small businesses, and we’ve seen it all when it comes to websites. Certain types of problems come and go, but we thought we would make a list of some of the most common and easiest to fix ones. In general, we thought these were the most important ones to get right if you intend to … Read More
Top 6 Ways to Sync Inventory between Physical Store & WooCommerce
If you sell physical goods and you have both an online store and a brick-and-mortar store, you simply need to sync inventory between both. You don’t have time to manually update each system every day, and you can’t risk overselling products, either.It’s also very difficult to figure out how to do that. You’ve probably Google’d your way around the web and struggled to find … Read More
Malicious Fake Godaddy Domain Termination Email Alert
I just received an extremely suspicious email from “Godaddy” claiming that my domain name was going to be terminated soon. It looked nothing like past emails from Godaddy, and had many red flags that made it pretty obvious that it wasn’t legitimate. Here is some additional information from it: Subject: Mandatory Alert: Termination of {example.com} in progress. From: GoDaddy <engineer3_cebu@ph.lantro.com> via lantrosingapore.onmicrosoft.com … Read More
The Picky/Vision Matrix – Why Some Clients are So Much Easier than Others
The Picky/Vision Matrix – Why Some Clients are So Much Easier than Others Over the years, I’ve worked with a huge variety of clients. Many have been incredible. Most have been good or great. And a handful have been nightmares. If you’re a web designer, developer, graphic designer, or any other type of creative who produces something for your small … Read More
How to Take Amazing Photos for your Website
How to Take Amazing Photos for your WebsiteSo you’ve decided to take the photos destined for your website. You have a camera and boundless optimism and are ready to get going. Not sure where to begin? You’ve come to the right place!Luckily, taking website photos doesn’t require any particular or difficult tricks to pull off. Photography fundamentals apply here just … Read More