The bane of every website developer’s existence: email deliverability. While it may be easy to think that email functions much the same way as real mail – you send a letter to someone, it takes a relatively simple path and eventually arrives in the recipients mailbox – in reality it doesn’t at all. Imagine a world in which there was … Read More
Redirecting or forwarding an entire WordPress website except a single page (such as the home page) to another address is actually quite easy. If you’re here, I’m guessing you followed a number of tutorials and tried your hand at crafting the perfect .htaccess file only to be let down every single time when it inevitably didn’t work at all. Well … Read More
In the same day, I had two clients recieve the same, fake DDoS email with a link to a suspicious Google Drive folder. The sender was different for both, but both claimed to be from a major company (in the two I saw, Intuit and Hubspot). The email seems pretty much legitimate other than a few grammar errors that seem … Read More
Google appears to have quietly added a new feature to Chromecast ambient mode that allows you some mechanism to manually chose custom photos that show up there. And it’s super easy to do! Recently I’ve seen tons of articles showing how you can use “Recent Highlights” from your Google photos to let Google automatically choose from your most recently uploaded … Read More
We are excited to announce that we were featured on the popular hosting information website, HostingAdvice.com. We got to do an interview and they wrote up a whole piece about our history and business. If you haven’t heard of them before, HostingAdvice.com is a highly-trafficked website that does reviews of website hosts, provides tutorials and guides on various aspects of … Read More
If you’ve been pulling your hair out trying to find the tracking code in Google Analytics 4, I’m going to be your hero. Steps to generate the tracking code for Google Analytics 4 Log in to your Google Analytics and navigate to the relevant account Click “Admin” in the bottom-left corner Go to Property settings -> Data collection and modification … Read More
If you’re like me, you loved using Facebook Ambient mode for your Chromecast backgrounds. But you probably noticed that it stopped working and, upon further inspection, found that the option is no longer available. I’m a bit of a photographer, and over the years I’ve amassed lots of photos of my various trips, which I share almost exclusively to Facebook. … Read More
I’ve got a super simple post here for you today that has nothing to do with websites, really! But it’s useful, nonetheless. Update 05/12/2021: Google has removed the experimental Facebook for Chromecast ambient mode feature. Full details over at our other blog post. I recently had a problem for months where I couldn’t get Facebook albums to display in my … Read More
Did you know that 47% of website users expect web pages to load in less than 2 seconds? Generally speaking, anywhere from two to four seconds is considered an ideal page load time for a business website—any slower than that, and you start losing traffic (and therefore customers). For this and many other reasons, website speed can have a big … Read More
If you run a business, finding solid hosting for your website is crucial. Your site isn’t just an online brochure for your company—it’s one of the main ways potential clients are able to find and engage with you. That means it’s vital to ensure your website runs optimally with little to no downtime. Good hosting supports your website in the … Read More
