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How to set Canadian Taxes for your Online store
Setting up an online store is a lot of work and if you’re a Canadian shop the most frustrating part will likely be to get the taxes setup correctly. You need to charge GST to some Provinces, HST to others, … Continue reading
HTML5: The future of the Web
In 1999 I built my first website. Back then my browser was Netscape, my Internet was dial-up, I didn’t own a cell phone and Facebook didn’t exist. Since then the Web-world has seen a lot of changes. As a website … Continue reading
Pinterest helps search engines understand images
The most recent trend to come to the Web is the dominance of visual content. Pinterest, the online image sharing network has skyrocketed to the number three social network and infographics are everywhere. What does this mean for search engine … Continue reading
Help! My website is down
At some point every website owner goes into panic mode. Your website is down! What’s wrong? Is it a hosting issue? Did you forget to renew your domain name? Is there an outdated WordPress plugin? Have you been hacked?!! Don’t … Continue reading
Take back the ownership of your website
Whether setting up your own website or hiring a web designer to handle the process for you, make sure you own your own site and know exactly where to locate all the important account usernames and passwords. If you decide … Continue reading
How to Add a Favicon
A Favicon, short for Favorites Icon, is the small image you see before a website url in the browser address bar. If you are using a tabbed browser you can see it at the beginning of the tab on the … Continue reading
WordPress Custom Post Types Plugins
Your WordPress website comes with two primary post types: blog posts and pages. You can extend your WordPress functionality by creating custom post types for the specific needs of your web project. A post type can be pretty much any … Continue reading
Enhance Your WP Security: Change your Admin Username
Hackers know that many WordPress installations leave the default “admin” user name with a simple password. And that knowledge makes your website vulnerable. You can improve your site’s security by creating a new username that is unique to your site. … Continue reading
Color Cop: choosing website colours
When customizing a WordPress theme, most of the design magic happens in the css stylesheet file. To change css colours you need to know a colour’s hex code. A colour picker program makes it easy to find. If you are … Continue reading
Akismet – dealing with comment spam
Akismet is the first WordPress plugin that you’ll encounter because it comes bundled with the WordPress core installation files. Akismet was created by the creators of WordPress to fight comment spam. “Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best … Continue reading →