Whether you want to start a blog or manage your business’s website, you’re going to need website hosting. If you’re like most people, you don’t want to buy a web server and manage it yourself, so you’re looking into shared hosting. Unfortunately, there are SO many to choose from it’s enough to make your head …
Whether your company’s website is built on WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other CMS, just about everybody recommends you backup your database and files before you upgrade the core. That’s easier said than done, so let’s take a look at a few ways to backup all that precious stuff before you upgrade and possibly shoot …
First off, I heart Google Adwords — big time. After all, it’s this cash cow that pays for the Google party. However, while working with a new client recently, we found their super-handy tools a bit lacking when it came to a simple and common question: “How much should I budget for Adwords?” So we did a little mathematical experiment with some surprising results.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve noticed a considerable uptick in WordPress CMS site hacks (even GoDaddy got hacked). Although we’re not sure what might be causing this, we do know a few quick ways to get your house in order thanks to the security pros at Sucuri. 1. Scan & Buy Sucuri If you …
It’s long been the case that webmasters spend entirely too much time worrying about their META keywords. Fact is, Google doesn’t pay them much attention. Don’t believe me? Get it right from the horse’s mouth… There you have it. Keyword META tags don’t matter the way they once did. Just another SEO misconception.
At JDM Digital, we offer SEO services but only in conjunction with websites we’re developing for clients. That said, we have had enough of the rampant lies, myths and misconceptions regarding SEO. So here are just a few we’d like to put to bed. SEO Misconception: Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Guarantees Permanent Top Placement Well, …
To App or Not to App? The debate between developing lower-cost mobile websites versus a higher-cost mobile application is contentious. A mobile website can render on all devices but doesn’t get full access to local tools like GPS, the camera, accelerometers, etc. So which way is the mobile world leaning: app, website, or something in between?
JDM’s website (or websites, really) use avatars to generate those cool badges in comments, but we’re not the only one’s that use them. In fact, we use something called Gravatars (a combination of ‘Avatar’ and Global’) that means you only have to setup your avatar once (on the Gravatar site) and it will work on any website that uses that API.
As CRMs begin to become a more valuable tool for the WHOLE organization (marketing, sales, support, delivery and executives), I felt it critical to review a few of them for my clients. After a dozen or so demos of some of the top 360-degree CRM solutions on the market, I compiled the following PROs & CONs of the top two: HubSpot & Marketo.
Flat, PDF design comps are SO yesterday. JDM Digital develops “Living” Design Comps on testing servers that allow clients to touch and understand how the site will feel, focus and function in a way no PDF could ever convey. As part of our web development process, Living Comps are our way of skipping all the …
Google has just announced Webmaster Tools integration with Google Analytics is now available to everyone. The trouble with the announcement is, they don’t tell you how the hell to link them! What linking Analytics with Webmasters gets you Once linked, you can find the new reports under the “traffic sources” >> “search engine optimization” …
Sometimes in developing themes and really cool functionality for clients’ Wordpress websites you’ll find yourself in a situation where updating Wordpress automatically is a REALLY bad idea. Maybe you toss and turn at night just thinking about what would happen if they click that little upgrade nag link at the top and it takes the whole site down–for hours. Chill. Here are two ways to hide the Wordpress update nag.