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Here, you’ll find a collection of articles that I hope will make your life a little easier. I’ve written guides for business owners, as well as detailed tutorials for programmers. If I couldn’t find something better on the internet, then I wrote it myself.
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Michelle
First off, I love Stripe. I have found their APIs and dashboard to be well-thought-out and well tested in general, and definitely way better in just about every way from other payment processors I have had the misfortune to use for clients. But then I had to create free trials for a client, and I …
Continue reading “Create a Trial Period in Stripe that Works”
About a year ago, my husband found some Gunnar blue-light filtering glasses for cheap on MassDrop, and got me a pair. We had been hearing about blue light and how it affects sleep, as well as the strain of computer screens on our eyes when we are on a computer all day for work. The …
There are certain tasks I end up doing for every project, like creating database inserts, selects, and updates. I hate the tedium and repetitive nature of copy-pasting, or find and replace operations. The more work I do for clients, the more I realize I’m doing similar work for each client. This is my first step …
VPS vs. Shared Hosting Shared Hosting on GoDaddy is usually a great level of functionality for my clients, even those with larger sites and custom programming. With Shared Hosting, you share an environment with other sites that other people own, so you can’t make major changes to PHP and MySQL settings, and that’s usually just …
Continue reading “Creating Automatic Backups on a GoDaddy VPS”
As a freelancer, you know that keeping track of your projects, clients, and invoicing is critical to being successful. Unlike working for a company, you probably don’t have a project manager an regular meetings to help you keep on track, or a complicated and expensive ticketing system to keep every little task organized and prioritized. …
My education and experience in web development and design have helped me build a business of my own creating and programming websites.
I love what I do, and so I enjoy helping other small businesses build their brand and utilize the internet to their advantage. The articles I write are meant to help other small business owners who want to try creating their own web presence, or web developers starting out who can use a hand choosing the right technology or code to get a project off the ground.
When I’m not working on websites, I’m usually hanging out with my husband and kids gardening, sewing, baking, brewing beer, or watching way too many episodes of a TV show in a row on Netflix.
You can Contact Me using the form on my portfolio page to ask me questions, or contact me about your website project.
