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CForms to MethodCRM: Getting dirty with SOAP.
One of our clients recently began using MethodCRM to handle their sales/coordination process. It’s a pretty slick web based CRM tool which comes with some nifty plugins like their GMail integration...
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Does Google Glass signify the end of privacy and the beginning of humans...
As any good journalist knows, when there’s a question in the title, the answer is usually “of course not”. However, if one were to believe the wave of paranoid hyperbole circulating through the media,...
View ArticleThe Web Guy will be a Google Glass Explorer!
Just a quick announcement to say, WOO-HOO! I was one of the folks picked in Google’s #ifIhadglass contest. We like to stay ahead of the curve around here, so getting an early chance to play with...
View ArticleIt’s been a slamming first quarter at ImTheirWebGuy.com
That’s my clever way of saying “Wow, I haven’t updated the blog in a bit, huh?” Check out our portfolio to get a feel for some of the projects that have been keeping us busy. However, that’s just one...
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Everything you know about social mobile web statistics is dead wrong.
Yes, I know that’s a provocative title, but it accurately reflects some of the realizations I’ve had over the last several months while researching social engagement systems. There are a hundred...
View ArticleAdvanced Cforms Techniques: Dynamically prepopulating a form field via URL
We use Oliver Seidel’s CForms plugin quite a bit around here, due to its robust functionality, and support for aggressive customization, such as posting to MethodCRM, and posting to a spreadsheet in...
View ArticleThree things Google+ needs to do for webmasters.
The big news in social media space this week is Facebook rolling out embedded posts for websites. It’s not a surprising feature; Facebook took the early initiative in providing tools for webmasters to...
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A quick start guide to Google+
Over on Google+, Alex Garcia put together a pretty awesome quick start guide for G+ that deserved some sharing. However, I know some of you aren’t sure enough where to start that sending a direct link...
View ArticleSEO is NOT Marketing: It’s time we dispelled some myths about website traffic
I hear from clients all the time that they’re looking for other ways to improve their SEO, and that’s a laudable goal. However, in many instances, the question they’re actually asking is “How do I...
View ArticlePlussers win big with YouTube/Google+ comment integration.
If you've been online anytime in the last 24 hours, you may have heard that Google finally completed integrating their social layer with YouTube. Oh, correction, I meant you may have heard that GOOGLE+...
View ArticleExporting the results of a custom WPDB query to a downloaded CSV
If you’ve been playing with WordPress’s $wpdb object, you know that you can build robust custom queries that stray well outside the realm of posts and pages. If you’re building some heavy duty custom...
View ArticleDo you have a problem with authority? (If you’re struggling to find your...
I asked the members of our local networking group to complete the following question: “The thing that keeps me from being more visible online is: ____________” The answers had a few commonalities, but...
View ArticleCreating an autonomous service for your WordPress plugin using wp-cron
When integrating third party API’s with a WordPress plugin, a lot of developers take the easy route by forcing all of the interactions to occur on submit; the end user pays the price by waiting through...
View ArticleUPDATED: Don’t hit update just yet…WP 3.8 overhauls UI, breaks dashboard...
After getting notified that 3.8 was available, I eagerly ran the update, and then immediately wished I hadn’t. While the UI updates in WP 3.8 definitely hit the goal of “modern interface”, they failed...
View ArticleA Year’s Worth of Thank-You’s.
As an entrepreneur, we tend to spend much of our time focused on growing our businesses, building new connections, and looking for the next opportunity, and it can be difficult to find time to reflect....
View ArticleSocial Media “Experts”: Please stop ruining social media.
It begins so seductively…“GAIN NEW FOLLOWERS AND DRIVE TRAFFIC TODAY!” (OK, that may not be seductive to everyone, but when you’re a small business or startup looking for exactly those things, it’s...
View ArticleThis one weird trick will make social media experts hate you!
There is a phrase in science and statistics which goes like this: “Correlation does not imply causation“. It’s used to point out false conclusions that are attractive because they show some connection,...
View ArticleImTheirWebGuy.com releases Two Column Admin, a plugin to easily restore the...
As we wrote about a little while back, the 3.8 upgrade effectively broke some dashboard widgets by squeezing them into leetle teeny boxes (no word yet on whether said boxes were made out of ticky...
View ArticleGoogle’s new pricing for Drive storage may change the way you build websites.
When you’re choosing a host for a web project, there are generally three considerations (outside of web server environment needed): storage space, server performance, and bandwidth. Storage space is a...
View ArticleDynamically populate time based select fields in WordPress metaboxes
If you’ve got more than one time based select field in a PHP form, it makes sense to create a reusable function to prep those iterations for you instead of manually constructing an array. And, because...
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