If you have a WordPress website (or several) you can delegate routine updates and maintenance to others. However, depending on your time, budget, and expertise, you might want to do some or even all of the routine tasks yourself or have someone in your organization do these. The (partial) list below isn’t always in order […]
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A few online security resources
Since the resources available to both human and automated hacking, phishing and malware actors keep leapfrogging available means to mitigate those challenges, it’s a good best practice to use the help that is readily available … much of it free or low-cost. Here are some of the suggestions, resources and best practices we’ve used and […]
Update a PayPal donate button
PayPal changed their DONATE button/link system recently; if you had a donate button that formerly went to a PayPal donate button specifically for your website, the link may now go to this generic page. If so, follow the procedure below. (This step-by-step process presumes that you already have a PayPal account and have connected it […]
Banners for Yachats Banner Project
Each year many artists in our little #coastaltown paint on blank canvas banners. There are typically about 30 of us that volunteer for this fun project. June to October visitors and residents enjoy the artful pieces hanging from the lampposts on the main street – which is coastal highway 101. We have a theme each […]
Crop, Resize and Compress Online for Faster Images, Better SEO
If you want your WordPress (or other) website images to run their fastest and jump their highest … or at least load much more quickly, you’ll likely want to use PhotoShop or an alternative to PhotoShop to optimize images before uploading them to your WordPress image library. But what if you don’t have (or don’t […]
Yachats and Vicinity – Websites and Community Support
In a few days (posted Nov. 28, 2020), we’ll celebrate four years of being residents of Yachats, Oregon – a wonderful little community in a beautiful part of this world! A little over four years ago, while visiting mutual friends in the Portland area, our long-time friends, Dean and Shelly Shrock offered to drive us […]
Online Meetings – How To Use Zoom
Since the global pandemic began transforming seemingly almost everything since March 2020, many in-person meetings and events are temporarily (or perhaps permanently) moving to online meetings, regardless of when or if in-person meetings resume, using the free Zoom app, which you can use on your computer or mobile device. Zoom has lots of advanced options […]
What is the difference between domain registration and website hosting?
The internet is a large and confusing cyberworld. In order for the public to view your website, it needs to be…well visible. One of the first steps in the website building process is not actually choosing a theme or beginning the design it is: choosing and purchasing a domain name and a domain hosting service […]
Go Beyond Local – How to Reach Your Global Community!
Transform in-person events to online events! Simple, free or low-cost tools make this easy on your computer! We can help as much or as little as needed. The current global pandemic continues to trigger the cancellation of countless in-person meetings, classes, and events. Of necessity, many want to transform their in-person offerings to online meetings, […]
Nancy’s Art at the Drift Inn Gallery, Yachats, OR
What do we do when not web designing? Recently, Nancy has been experimenting with Creative Paper Clay. A few of her creations are now in the Drift Inn Gallery in Yachats, OR.. She decided to take some of the driftwood she had collected AND that had looked even remotely like whales or fish and use […]