We pride ourselves on giving our clients a smooth experience. All projects are managed via our client portal with clearly defined deliverables and a projected completion date. Project timelines vary by package and are contingent on timely communication.
Absolutely! We know that one-size doesn’t fit all and that’s why we are happy to offer specialty a la carte services. If you have something in mind and you aren’t sure if we can do it, please feel free to contact us and we’ll be happy to talk with you.
We specialize in custom designed and developed author websites. Of course, we’re not opposed to working with others. In short, if you are interested in a site, let’s have a chat, get to know one another, and see if we’re the right match for you.
Absolutely; in fact, we encourage it! Not only is WordPress easy to use but we have come up with a new system (built into WordPress) that will allow you to make changes across your entire website within minutes. No more having to pay exorbitant fees to make changes—you can do them yourself and with just a few clicks.
We have a base set of four packages that we use to categorize our clients: Express, Express+, Pro, and Custom. Each package is carefully explained to the client during consultation and the client then chooses which package feels right for them. Packages can always be expanded based upon client need.
We accept money orders, checks, and money transfers with no additional fees. If requested in advance, we can arrange for payments to be accepted via Apple Pay or PayPal (an additional fee may apply). A receipt will be provided for all monies received.
While we specialize in custom built websites, we recognize that not everyone has the need for such an expansive system. With this in mind, we offer customization of pre-designed templates. Customizations include logo, colors, fonts, and images.
Oh, wow, how exciting! We cannot wait to get started. If you haven’t already, we recommend scheduling a 1/2 hour consultation (it’s free!) so that we can get to know you. If you’ve already done that, please send us an email and we’ll get back to you with the next steps.
Of course! By default, we break each of our projects into phases, with a payment due for each phase. A basic payment plan timeline is as follows: Deposit, progress payment, and final payment. If you need to make additional payments, just let us know and we’ll work with you to create a payment plan.
With all the changes going on over at Facebook, we thought it would be a good idea to put together a quick how-to on setting up and using the new Facebook Timeline for Brand Pages.
A Facebook page should not be confused with a Facebook profile. Profiles are for people and pages are for businesses—it’s as simple as that.
To create a business page, click here (you will need to be signed in to your personal Facebook profile). You’ll have the option to pick the kind of page you want (for this example, we’re setting up a fictitious Local Business):
You will need to fill in all the information—no blank fields allowed—and accept the terms and conditions.
After doing so, you’ll have the option to upload an image for your profile picture. Now, this is something Facebook has changed in their newest update. It used to be that you could make your profile image very long but now, you are restricted to an image of 181×181.
You can skip this step but really, you want your business to be identifiable, so why not go ahead and upload your profile image now? The company logo always makes a great profile image.
Then you’re going to add in some of your basic information and your website address. Don’t worry—you can always go back in and change this stuff later, but it’s good to get something in there so you don’t forget about it. Note that you can add more than one site so feel free to link to your website, twitter account, linkedin profile—you name it!
Then you are going to be taken through a few more options that, unfortunately, we can’t get you screenshots for. But to give you an idea, you’ll be asked to like your page (do it), invite friends (up to you), and post something to your new timeline.
Then, you will see your all new Admin Panel (later you will find a button to access this drop-down panel on the top right hand side).
The Admin Panel has some great new features. It shows the latest notifications (people who have commented, shared, or posted on your page), a new messaging system where people can start a private conversation with you (a great tool for addressing individual customer concerns with one caveat: you cannot start the message—the customer has to).
Rounding out the features, you’ll also see the newest people who have ‘liked’ your page and tracking information for your the reach and popularity of your brand page.
Now you see your page a bit more complete and ready for you to start posting and customizing things a bit.
First up, a cover photo. The cover photo occupies the large space that runs along the top and spans from left to right. This space will hold an 851px x 315px image. To upload a cover photo, you will see ‘Add a Cover’ in the right hand corner.
You’ll also see that there are boxes to the right of the ‘About Section’. Take note: You can add more buttons here (up to 4 across and two rows down) and you can rearrange the order they appear in all except for the ‘Photos’ button, which is in a fixed position (1st).
To switch buttons around, click on the arrow to the right and you’ll see the second row appear. Now when you mouseover the button you want to move, you’ll see a pencil appear as well as a message asking which button you want to swap positions with.
Now you are ready to start posting. We can’t really help you out too much in this area but we can give you a few pointers.
#1: If you’re sharing a link, all you have to do is paste the link into the status box and you’ll see a preview pop up (sometimes you have to put a space after the link). You can change any of the information pulled up by double clicking on it. Or you can change the generated thumbnail by using the arrow keys. If you don’t see a thumbnail you like, you can choose not to use one by clicking ‘No Thumbnail’.
Once you have everything how you like it, delete the original link you posted (where it says www.msn.com in the example below)
#2: For really important things, use ‘Milestone’. You can talk about the event, give it a date, etc. It’ll be shown on your timeline like a nice big announcement. This is a great way to tell your company story and history
#3: Pinning and highlighting are two new features. By pinning a post, it stays at the top of your Facebook Page. Highlighting will make it large like a milestone. Play with both and see what you like
#4: Don’t be stingy but don’t bug. Post regularly but don’t post every 10 seconds. In the same vein, the content you choose should be relevant to your company and/or product you are offering.
And that’s it. That’s our simple Facebook Brand page tutorial. If you would like help designing any Facebook options (Facebook covers, custom Facebook pages, etc), send us an email.
Or for more info direction from the source, check out the full Facebook Manual here.
THE RULES TO ENTER
- Like our Facebook Page
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- We can only count likes that come in from personal profiles (unfortunately at this time, a ‘page’ liking another ‘page’ doesn’t count in facebook’s total of likes)
- One entry per person
- Contest closes March 31st, 2012 11:59PM PST
- Fully transferrable
- We will draw one name if/when we reach 150 likes, two names if/when we reach 300, and five names if/when we reach 1000
- All winners will be notified by April 30th, 2012 and announced on Facebook
- Wondering about the designs we do? Take a look at our portfolio of custom facebook pages
- While we cover the design aspects, there are some things we can’t do, ie. content and images. These will either need to be provided or we can use items from your website
- The recipient must use original images and/or content or have permission to use provided images and/or content
- Please note: Custom facebook pages cannot be utilized on personal profiles. If you do not have an existing facebook page, go here to set one up or here to learn about about them
- No cash value
CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE CONTEST NOW
Have you ever wanted to send out a newsletter featuring your WordPress posts but thought it would be just one big hassle?
That was the same thought that we had when a client requested a newsletter populated solely by WordPress. And to top it off, they wanted it to be easy. Easy? We were just hoping it was possible.
After a bit of research, and a lot of misses, we finally got our hit: WordChimp.
WordChimp is so easy to use, it really shocked us. All you need to do is install and activate the plugin, then grab an API from MailChimp and enter it into the settings page and wah-lah, you’re good to go. WordChimp will automatically bring in your lists and any custom templates you’ve designed and uploaded to MailChimp.
There are a few setting options (excerpt versus full post, display time and date, and display author name) and (very important) you have to make sure that you don’t have the setting that allows people to choose their email output (plain text, html, or mobile) checked in MailChimp. Otherwise you’ll get an error and have to start over.
So there you have it. A very, very simple way to integrate MailChimp into WordPress and vice versa.
Have you tried out WordChimp? What do you think of the plugin?
Facebook. Gotta love them but they do like to change things up on us every now and again, don’t they?
We recently started getting a lot of questions about how to add multiple categories/ subcategories and/or services to Facebook pages. The answer may surprise you in how easy it is—or disappoint you because the requirement isn’t one available to you.
So, how do you add multiple categories / subcategories and/or services to your Facebook page? Provide a valid street address (P.O. Box will not do) in the info portion of your Facebook fan page.
A few other things will happen when you do this:
- A ‘check-in’ feature will be added to your page. This allows people to … drumroll please … check-in to your place of business!
- A map, showing your location, will be added to your info tab
- And, of course, you’ll get that new option to define your sub-categories/services.
And a couple notes:
- It can take a while for your new features to show up once you’ve added that address, so don’t panic if you put in your address and don’t see anything. Facebook/Google/God has to verify that address before they bestow your new features
- As mentioned above, P.O. Boxes do not work. They are not considered to be valid addresses for Google places and that’s what Facebook is integrating with so, sorry, you’re out of luck. However, if you have a box with a company like Postal Annex, that should work because you have an actual street location with them
And that’s it. That is how you get to add multiple categories / sub-categories and/or services to your Facebook Page. Pretty easy, huh?
Whether by accident or design, Facebook has made it very easy to find both the RSS feed to your Facebook page and, subsequently, your Facebook page ID.
Here are the quick and easy steps (no, really, it’s easy – We promise!)
- Look on the left sidebar of the Facebook Page. See where it says ‘Get Updates via RSS’? Click that.
- You’ll be taken to a page filled with the latest posts and you’ll be asked how you want to subscribe to this feed.
- In the upper right hand corner, click on [Feed], then copy and paste the RSS from the address bar.
And voila! You’re done. You now have the Facebook RSS feed you wanted AND the Facebook page ID. Easy-peasy, right?
Looking for your personal facebook RSS feed? Try FBRSS.com (you might need to refresh the page after ‘logging in’. We did)!
So, you’ve heard about the newest Facebook launch, the Send Button, and now you want to get it for your site.
You go to the Facebook Social Plugins Developer site, fill in your info, and wahlah you’ve got the code to implement your very own Facebook Send Button. Everything is hunky-dory, right?
Well, kind of. Depending on you what you want to be able to send. If you want the same url to be sent every time someone hits that button, then yes. You are good to go.
However, if you’re looking for a way to make it so that individual posts are sent each time someone clicks that button, read on. We’ve got the 411.
First of all, you want to make sure that you’re getting the code JUST FOR the send button. Yes, Facebook states that you can “add on” the send function to your existing Like button but during testing, we found that the code would either display incorrect numbers or send the generic URL. Not what we want.
Anyway, the code you get (depending on the options you’ve selected from Facebook), will look something like this (I’ve put in extra spaces so make sure to take those out if you’re copying this directly):
< script src=”http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″ >< /script>< fb:send href=”YOURWEBSITEHERE” font=”arial” >< /fb:send >
All you need to do (yes, it really is this simple) is remove YOURWEBSITEHERE and replace it with
< ?php the_permalink(); ? >
(again, if you’re copying this, I added extra spaces into that code so make sure to remove them)
In the end, your script will look like this:
< script src=”http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″ >< /script>< fb:send href=”< ?php the_permalink(); ? >” font=”” >< /fb:send>
And that’s it. Now you just have to decide where you want it. I put mine in the main loop file (loop.php) but it will work elsewhere too.
Now, go forth and have fun with your new Facebook Send Button!
So, you’ve set yourself up a Tumblr account. You’ve played with it a bit–you know, tinkered under the hood. And now you’re wondering what you should do with it. You’ve already got an established blog, so you don’t really need another blog to update. And then your light bulb moment hits. Why spend time updating Tumblr when you can have RSS feeds do the work for you!
So this is it. A quick and easy tutorial on how to publish your Facebook page feed to Tumblr.
You’ll need a few things in order to do this right.
First, you’ll need your Facebook page feed. Not the easiest thing in the world to get I know but we’ve tried to simplify it as much as possible! Here’s what you do:
1. Go to the Facebook page you want to import the feed from
2. Click on the profile image
3. You’ll see something that resembles this: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=pa.131843736834844
4. Copy ONLY the set of numbers at the end (this is your ID)
5. Add the numbers from Step #4 to this URL after “id=” with NO spaces: http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id=YOURNUMBERSHERE
Now, let’s important our new feed into Tumblr, shall we?
1. Make sure you are signed into Tumblr
2. Click on “Customize” (the location might change depending on your theme — ours is in the tip-top upper right hand corner next to “Dashboard”)
3. Click on “Services”, then scroll to the bottom until you see “Automatically Import My…”
4. Leave it at: RSS feed but adjust the second option depending on what you want to show
5. Take the RSS feed you just created from before and paste it into the Field URL
6. Click “Start Importing My Feed”
And wahlah, presto! You will now be all set importing your Facebook page feed into Tumblr. One note here, you will see “Queued for Updating” next to your newly created feed. Do not expect this to start updating immediately. It took almost 2 days for our new feed to start appearing but we’re happy to say it updates quite frequently after the initial delay.
So, what do you think? Did it work for you? Did you get stuck somewhere along the way? Let us know in the comments! We’d love to hear from you!
So, you’re sitting there, admiring how pretty Chrome is. Sleek. Shiny. Fast. And then, you notice that you’ve got this little tool bar right below the address bar and it’s got some of the bookmarks you’ve been saving there. You decide to do a little “clean up” so that you can save that space for more important websites. Websites you’ve chosen. So you’re clicking along—merrily deleting—when suddenly, some niggling doubt in your mind says, ‘Wait a second. Am I just cleaning up the bookmarks bar?’
In a sudden bout of clarity, you click on the main Bookmarks link at the top and there it is, staring you right in the face: You’ve just managed to delete a significant portion of your saved bookmarks.
But panic doesn’t set in yet. No, no. You CMD+T a new tab, go up to the address bar and type in your question, “how to restore deleted bookmarks in Chrome”. You pull up results and the pain in your chest starts to fade when you see there are other people who have had this problem but, lo and behold, the pain returns with a vengeance when you see the proffered solutions only apply to Windows users. Now it’s not just pain but panic too. All your work. Possibly years of bookmarks. Gone, poof. Life as you know it is officially over, right?
Wrong.
If you find yourself in this sticky situation and you’re using a Mac: FEAR NOT. Here is the way (tried and tested by yours truly) to recover deleted bookmarks in Chrome:
Open up “Finder” and go to Macintosh HD > Users > Your user name > Library > Application Support > Google > Chrome > Default
Once here, you will see two files: 1) Bookmarks and 2) Bookmarks.bak.
Copy, rename, and save Bookmarks to another location—one you’ll remember (I like my desktop). Then, go back and delete the original file (Bookmarks).
Now go down to Bookmarks.bak and rename it to simply “Bookmarks”—leaving out the .bak extension (!important).
Close finder. Restart Chrome. Give it a second or two and wahlah. Panic attack over.
