The IT Arsenal blog highlights valuable tools, useful practices, and effective methods for business websites with spotlights from customer experiences. Enjoy!
Client Spotlight: – FunCLES and theme upgrades
The problem: No theme updates in over 9 years! multiple bugs, visual anomalies, and overall problems were creeping up on the aging continuing legal education membership site https://funcles.com - not an all too uncommon reason for a site refresh. The task: Update the...
Does Your Website Say “Not Secure”? – Fix it!
Does the above image mean anything to you? Probably not and that's okay. I get it, it's got weird acronyms in it. It has to do with getting a security certificate for your website that secures traffic between your site and the computers visiting it! How about this...
The Quarantine Stack of Useful Web Applications from IT Arsenal
Zoom - http://zoom.us/ - Yes, I know about the security issues, yes I still trust them, and they are working on it. Best multi-person easy to use video chat out there. I've tried to have 3+ person Facetime group chats several times, it's just not as good. Notion.so -...
Impressed with CloudHQ
Published on: May 8, 2020 at 12:36 I've been using various digital tools for over a decade. Every once and a while one comes around that is so versatile, useful, and easy to use you're rather dumbfounded. This is CloudHQ and their conversion and migration tools for...
Client Spotlight: Website Malware, Mostly on Cheap Hosting
Malware is not fun. The pain is two fold, the embarrassment and un-usability of your website, and then there's getting it cleaned up in addition to that! We've had rashes of website malware clean up lately. It's typically malware to either redirect a website...
The Website Host I Refer and Migrate Sites to the Most
Website hosting is boring, and something that most people don't think about except when they initially want a website, and then when something breaks on that website. WP Engine does something very boring, website hosting, in a way that makes working with them...
Client Spotlight: PHP Upgrades for Tamara
IT Arsenal has been received a lot of emails that go something like the text below... "I was going to reach out to you anyway. My WordPress site needs a PHP update. Can you take a look at that? What would be the cost to update that for me?"...
Q&A: Facebook Pixel not firing? Getting clicks but pages not loading? Here’s how to find out Why
This Q&A comes from some recent optimization work I've been doing for a client. I've been examining page load times, plugins, server quality image size and several other things that load how fast a website loads. Along with this was the scripts that...