I was hired to investigate a websites’ incredibly slow load times. If you can believe it, this website scored a 2 out of 100 on a google speed test, that is the lowest I have ever seen!!! And what is even better… His ‘developer’ told him there was nothing he could do about that crappy … Read more

Sorry for yelling, but I wanted you to know that the super awesome customize section for the Shopify home page CAN actually also be used for any other page on your Shopify website. Why theme authors don’t do this by default I have no idea, you pay enough for the premium themes, I think they … Read more

Please, for the love of all things great and small, never let your designer build your website. I have seen an influx lately of websites that were recently re-designed, but the client let the designer build the website too. Then they come to me because they need help ‘tweaking’ things on their site, and then … Read more

Sorry, I recently watched Cars 2 with my kids and that is the only speed reference I can think of… One of the most common requests I get is “Can you make my website faster?” So that means you have learned that website speed is important, not just for your end user, but for SEO … Read more

Lets assume you hired an awesome, highly knowledgeable developer to build your website, now what? If you build it they will come? Well, yes, but ‘They’ can be a subjective term. I can almost guarantee that if you build a website, hackers and spammers will come…. People often make the mistake of thinking that building … Read more