Posts by Lynette Chandler
Make WordPress Menu Items Open In New Window
WordPress has a wonderful feature – Menus – that I absolutely love because it lets clients manage their own menus super easily without having to put in a call to me to make edits. Of course I use it extensively within my own sites as well because – well, diving into code sometimes is a…
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Wasted Years And Money: Seduced By Other’s Creed
Maybe it is a little overused by now, but I just can’t seem to get this particular quote from Steve Jobs out of my mind. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let…
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Help: Httpd Failed Notices
For those of you on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or dedicated server, you may receive a notice like the one below once in a while. httpd failed @ Day Mth Date 13:16:26 20XX. A restart was attempted automagically. Service Check Method: [tcp connect] Failure Reason: Timeout while trying to get data from service: Died…
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Solved: Video On Amazon S3 Downloading Instead of Playing
Having used Amazon S3 to store and serve our media for a long time – many of them MP4 videos – without problems, I was a little stumped when we encountered a video that won’t play. When you load the URL to the video directly in your browser, it would download instead. Oddly enough, the…
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Mobile Optimized To Perform Better On Adwords
If you have not been paying attention, Google is on a huge mobile push. From Places to having live workshops in selected cities targeted at local businesses to get online. Recently, they announced that changes have been made since last year to limit ad-serving to landing pages with heavy flash content. Now, they will take…
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