Insights by Justin Downey

May 2017

Introducing JDM10

Part of the festivities celebrating our 10th year in business, JDM Digital is thrilled to announce the launch of our redesigned website. Don’t let its simplicity fool you. It’s easily the most technically sophisticated site we’ve ever built — for ourselves anyway. You might think it should be pretty easy for a digital agency specializing …

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February 2017

A Decade and Counting

Today, we’re celebrating 10 years in business. Wow. How time flies! It seems like just yesterday, we were moving into our first office space in Irving (right next to the airport) and getting all the desks assembled. We had absolutely no idea what we were doing as we put together all the basic business collateral …

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February 2017

Defining Support

Let’s not get our terms jumbled. Feature requests do not count as “Support.” Let’s take a quick look at how JDM Digital defines “Support.”

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January 2017

Sending via SMTP?

When we’re talking about sending emails via “SMTP,” we’re referring to how we’re going to send emails generated by a server. SMTP is the exact same “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol” as you use for Outlook. In this way, emails sent via SMTP look, for all intents and purposes, like normal emails–not server-generated suspicious emails. You …

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November 2016

A Guide to WordPress Multisite

As of WordPress v3.0, WordPress has the ability to create a network of sites by using the multisite feature baked right into the core. This is all WordPress lingo for allowing an unlimited number of distinct WordPress site’s to be created under a single WordPress install (single sign-in, single installation, single hosting). The feature was …

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November 2016

Google Analytics Campaign Tracking made Easy

We couldn’t help ourselves but to build a very simple web app we nicknamed Cliqued (pronounced “Clicked”). The project has just been released on GitHub. Just another one of those code projects by your friendly nerds at JDM Digital.

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October 2016

Changing File Permissions

On computer filesystems, different files and directories have permissions that specify who and what can read, write, modify and access them. Often, server-side applications need to be able to edit, read, write and even delete files on your behalf. When the permission settings don’t allow for that, weird things happen. Here’s how to change file …

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October 2016

WordPress User Management

WordPress comes right out of the box with unlimited numbers of users and 5 user roles (permissions, essentially). To access, view or add users, go to Users >> All Users. Roles Here’s a quick summary of capabilities for each of the 5 user roles: Administrator – can access to all the administration features within a single …

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October 2016

How does a CDN work?

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the globe. Their real value comes when you think about latency–or the time it takes for your information to be delivered hundreds or thousands of miles away from your actual web server. Besides …

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September 2016

Living Comps

Some web design agencies really love wireframes, but clients don’t really know what they’re approving. Forget wireframes. Let’s get to the good stuff.

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September 2016

Finding the The Capo d’astro Bar

Had lunch with very interesting people yesterday. As per usual, the question of how I ended up working at a digital agency rather than going into the oil business like the rest of my family came up. I responded that, while the rest of my family sees the art in their science, I see the …

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August 2016

Improvements in WordPress v4.6

Version 4.6 of WordPress, named “Pepper” in honor of jazz baritone saxophonist Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.6 help users focus on the important things while feeling more at home.

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