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Moving away from ManageWP

Hosting Management

Yesterday, ManageWP announced that they have been purchased by GoDaddy.  A day after the announcements, there were 338 comments, and 80%……

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Is WordPress a limited CMS?

Development Web Design WordPress

Yesterday, I found out that we lost a large website bid. I asked the potential client why and they responded……

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WordCamp Atlanta 2016 Coming Soon!

Development WordPress

This is going to be a fun WordCamp this year. Last year we added a “beginners day” and we had……

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Cheap hosting equals lost income

Hosting

Most business owners are dying to land really good and really cheap hosting but they do not realize that this…

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Our Migration to Our Hosting Platform

Development Hosting

Web hosting has changed dramatically since I first had my first server in 2004.  I know, what hasn’t changed dramatically……

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Custom WordPress Development – why we do it

Development Web Design WordPress

We talk a lot about custom WordPress development  on our blog. We haven’t  talked about it in a while, though…….

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Converting a Photoshop File to a WordPress Theme

Development Web Design

This post has been in draft mode for 3 years.  What is really funny is that post is still relevant……

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Live Blogging WordCamp ATL 2013 – The Art of Quality

Technical Jargon

The subtitle of this talk is “More Awesome. Less Suck.” for those that want to know :). A little history……

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website security
Live Blogging WordCamp ATL 2013 – Website Security

Technical Jargon

I’m in the Developers Room at WordCamp ATL 2013 and listening to a talk about website security. Here are a……

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No Innovations in OSX?

Technical Jargon

First and foremost, I am by no means an Apple Fan-boy. In 2001 I was hoping that Linux would take……

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