Website Tips

People are often cautioned against judging a book by its cover; however, this popular sentiment does not apply to website design at all. As a business owner, your website is your digital storefront, allowing you to welcome users in to experience what you have to offer. Remember, you only get one chance to make to

I needed to take out some shadows in a digital photo using photoshop and I found a great video that was very easy to understand by Bob Gager: https://youtu.be/xRjkk6dBg0M .  Thanks Bob!

For a quick check to see if your website is mobile responsive, go to Google’s free link and put in your domain: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

If you need to see what your ip address is, go to this site and your ip address will show on page load: http://ipchicken.com/

I was just trying to set up Outlook to pull email from my domain and I was getting the following error: Outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP) To get Outlook to work, your outgoing server I changed

To adjust the users initial view of your PDF file, you need Adobe Acrobat. Go to File…Properties….Initial View. Here you can set the magnification to “Fit Page” or another option that you choose.

I was asked by a client if there was a way to put in the company’s logo in the email response when he is using his iphone.  A little research on the internet and I ran across a great article by Allyson Kazmucha.  Check it out here: http://www.imore.com/how-create-html-rich-emails-signatures-your-iphone-and-ipad 

I ran across some easy code to implement on your dreamweaver site. I use CS5. Go to this link and follow the directions closely – http://www.freecontactform.com/email_form.php . Also, make sure you also edit the PHP settings in .htaccess file located in your domain root and put custom sendmail_from: php_value sendmail_from postmaster@domainname.com

To add a caption to the picture in a joomla article, click on the picture, then go to the picture settings icon (where you adjust size and alignment) and choose “caption” in the class.  You may need some spacing adjustments, but this class will display the title that you typed in the picture settings box.

I came across a great video on YouTube, which can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUI-fVckmGw This video show you how to create rounded edges in photoshop cs5.  Below are the steps: Open image In Layers panel right click on Background and go to “Layer from Background”, then click “OK” in Window Click Layer in main menu,