Category: web

2014 KPCB Internet Trends Report

WATCH: How Technology Will Change in 2014/2015

Every year, KPCB’s Mary Meeker puts on a presentation on the year’s internet trends. These reports are incredibly detailed, and show general trends like usage, as well as specific trends (like disappearing photos ala Snapchat).  The 2014 report was just recently released, and Meeker presented it at the 2014 code conference. Enjoy the video, and if you’d like, thumb through the presentation slides, which...

Can We Really Trust Web Hosting Companies?

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking I’m insane. Maybe if you’ve ever searched something remotely close to “web hosting” on Google, you’ve noticed the thousands of different providers. It seems like a free and open market, with a deal to be found. Well, it isn’t. Ok. Just Short of a Hosting Monopoly You might be surprised to find out that 6 of the...

How To Speed Up Your WordPress Site: 5 Steps To Building your Ferrari

We wrote earlier (here) about speeding up WordPress, but over time, our own site got really bloated and slow, so I went through and sped it up by several seconds using these tips, plugins, and services, mostly free solutions too.  Enjoy. Here are five concrete steps to do the same. Caching: Here’s on KEY tip you won’t find elsewhere. Don’t use W3 Total Cache....

Our New Look: Why Our Next Design Will Be Running on The Genesis Framework

Sometime this week we will unveil our brand new design, and it’s a big improvement. As a tech blogger, I’m naturally inclined to put a thought into any technological decision I make, and this design was no exception. Despite the thousands of free themes out there, I chose to shell out a good amount to run on the Genesis Framework, and here’s why. The...

How To Speed Up Your WordPress Site in Five Easy Steps

How important is speed to your website? Google found that increasing load time by one half of a second decreased traffic by 20%. Needless to Say, it’s important. So how do you do it? How do you turn your “Homer Simpson” of a site into a “Michael Phelps”.  What you need to do if you want to speed it up is figure out what...