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Client Spotlight: – FunCLES and theme upgrades
by Robert Granholm | Client Spotlight
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!
by Robert Granholm | ITA Services, Websites
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
by Robert Granholm | Tips & How To
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
by Robert Granholm | Tips & How To, Websites
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
by Robert Granholm | Client Spotlight
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
by Robert Granholm | Tips & How To
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
by Robert Granholm | Client Spotlight
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
by Robert Granholm | Q&A
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...