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On April 25, 2011, Facebook released the [Send] button. The [Send] button provides a means to share a web page with someone directly, as opposed to the [Like] button’s behavior of placing the entry on your wall for all your friends. Of course, the [Like] button is handy too. Fortunately Read More→

Obfuscating Email Addresses

posted on March 21st, 2011

Froggy

I’ve long held that putting a plain text email on a website is not a good idea. Even with being careful like this I’m inundated with a large amount of Spam. While I don’t put my email address online in a plain text fashion, and preach the same to others, I’m not always afforded Read More→

The History of WordPress

posted on February 12th, 2011

Here’s a very cool synopsis of the history of WordPress as well as just how much of a force it is in today’s blogging and CMS world. WordPress truly is king. The only question is whether it will be manageable given the astounding number of plugins and themes available. My expectation, given the product enhancement path I’ve experienced, is an astounding Yes. My recommendation Read More→

Silver Surfer Computer Support

posted on November 30th, 2010

Silver SurferAs we Silver Surfers know, sometimes we have trouble with our computers.

I had a problem yesterday, so I called Eric, the 11 year old next door. The one whose bedroom Read More→

Adding Widget Areas to a Page

posted on September 7th, 2010

In this post I want to cover how one can add widget areas to a page. The example I’m going to use is something I had done on a TwentyTen child theme to make the home page consist of two widget areas. The left widget area is meant for Read More→

What do you do when you have found a theme that you like but you want to make some adjustments?  Or perhaps you like a theme’s bones but not so much the styling and want to change it.  Enter the Child Theme.

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During much of the past 20 years the main lifeblood of, first, Software Solution Specialists, and now JVHM, Inc., has been to develop custom client-server software applications.  Applications have ranged from Client Relationship Management (CRM) systems to HR systems to barcode labeling systems and Read More→

WordPress Plugins Worth Mentioning

posted on July 8th, 2010

For over a year now I’ve been utilizing WordPress as the code base for the web sites that I build. Why? Because it is simply amazing, full featured and doesn’t add additional costs to my clients’ sites, actually, it Read More→

WordPress 3.0 Has Arrived!

posted on July 1st, 2010

Blue WordPress ButtonIt has been just about two weeks now since the release of WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”. As of today, version 3.0 has been downloaded over 2.5 million times, that’s almost 185,000 downloads per day! Why would WordPress 3.0 have such popularity? Because it is, without a doubt, the best content management system (CMS) software out there. With version 3.0 WordPress has added some Read More→

Video Sitemaps – Do You Have One?

posted on June 22nd, 2010

As I create more-and-more How-To and other videos as a way of sharing what I’ve learned with others, I need to be thinking about how I can improve the saturation of my videos from an SEO perspective. This will help others more readily find my videos and, hopefully, p Read More→