Content Management System or Site Builder?
Many simple web hosting plans come with a site builder type of tool that makes it fairly easy to build a nice looking website. So…
Owned v. Earned Media – Why you still need a website
Some trusts have wondered whether they really need a website at all anymore. Why not just make a facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ or other social media…
Dynamic Locator and Trail Maps
Building a nice looking Map is fairly easy these days thanks to tools like Google Maps. Google has a handy javascript API that makes it…
Less to more, more to less or separate?
When it comes to serving content to users of multiple devices, there isn’t one clear path. Progressive enhancement (less to more) defaults to a simple…
WordPress Themes: Free, Fee or Custom?
When it comes to modern Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress, there are many themes to choose from. Themes are packaged sets of styling and…
Nested WordPress Shortcodes
Have you tried calling a shortcode within another shortcode and discovered it doesn’t work? WordPress makes nested shortcodes possible but requires each shortcode to actively…
Be genuine or don’t bother
If you are on LinkedIn, you have probably received an email that starts with something like “Hi Scott, I was browsing Linked-in and wanted to…
Google says your site isn’t mobile friendly?
With Google placing a greater emphasis on mobile compatibility in search placement, many businesses are in a panic over how to make their websites mobile…
Audio Phase Demo
This is a quick demonstration video showing how in-phase signals add and out-of-phase signals cancel each other. I used identical copies of the same source…
New Audio for Video Basics course video
I recently taught a course on audio for video for Littleton Community Television, the Littleton, MA community access cable TV station. We covered microphone characteristics,…
Your business v. the business of digital marketing
I met with a prospective client this morning. This client is a sole proprietor who makes many other people’s lives better through health and wellness…
$35 on-ramp to IoT
Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized computer that can run several OSes, Most are Linux variants and, unless you are running your RPi as a…