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
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
We’ve recently completed a very fun new website for the River School of Music in Burnsville, Minnesota (Update: the school was bought out and the new owners redirected the website to their own). 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 … Read More
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
Last November, SEMrush.com made a splash with a new study alleging that the top four most important ranking factors for SEO had nothing to do with keywords or backlinks and everything to do with user behavior. Think about that. For years and years, search engine optimizers have focused mostly or exclusively on tweaking keywords or building backlinks. And those things … Read More
There is a bug in the current WordPress version (4.9.1) that prevents the .htaccess file from being updated properly when you save the permalinks. Evidently this bug existed in 4.9, but it is still a problem! I noticed this over the last week or two. On multiple WordPress sites, when I’ve gone to update the permalink structure, every page returns … Read More
We are happy to announce that we have launched the website for a great new skin clinic in Burnsville, MN: The Refinery Skin Clinic. The site is built on the WordPress platform in conjunction with X Theme. The built-in front-end editor allows these clients to make changes to their own website quickly and easily themselves. There’s no need for them … Read More
We just updated the plugin we have in the WordPress repository – Video Dashboard. As many of you already know, this plugin allows you to embed a streaming video into the dashboard of your WordPress website. For a couple years now I’ve been wanting to add Vimeo support to it, and I am happy to report that we have completed … Read More
After many months of careful planning, we are extremely pleased to announce that Brian Johnson Design is now PageCrafter! We first opened our doors (figuratively) in the fall of 2011 and since that time we’ve continued to grow and improve. It’s been a long and rewarding journey and we’ve met some amazing people along the way. Along with this growth … Read More
Recently one of my largest clients had a major website emergency. Out of nowhere, they were unable to accept credit card payments properly on their website, and the complaints were starting to mount. We deal with issues like this all the time, but this time was a bit tricky. The issue was that their plugin they used to accept these … Read More
