Eric Barker, Cory Miller, and I were recently interviewed by 435 Digital, Tribune’s online marketing division, about why businesses should use WordPress. The consensus? Its free, its flexible, its SEO-friendly — all while being easy to use, update and customize.
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After building a new web site, one of the last things web developers do is polish it off by adding a favicon, which is that little graphic that appears next to bookmarks, in the address bar, and on tabs in all of the major browsers. It helps to reinforce the brand, allows your pages to be distinguished from others in your visitors browser.
There are lots of ways to go about creating them, but my favorite is with a little command line utility called png2ico. This app has no gui, but its singular purpose is to eat PNGs and spit out ICO files, which makes it perfect for making favicons.
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Rob Dempsey, a Certified Scrum Practitioner and Agile Development coach, approached us about launching a line of Agile Development training videos. During Phase 1 of the project he requested that we create an e-commerce store capable of doing digital products with instant downloads.
The Shopp plugin for WordPress was a perfect choice and did everything he wanted to do. However, after attending a conference on marketing Video products, the client changed his mind and wanted to switch his offering to video training on a Subscription basis. He wanted to keep the store, since he would have a couple of other products, unrelated to the subscription, to offer now and in the future. The final requirement was that the subscription had to be purchasable in 1 Click. That is, once they click the button to sign up, they had to land on the check out page, and not get the ‘Add to Cart’experience.
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Use Firebug? Then, stop using alert() to debug your JavaScript.