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10 Things That Make Life Better

August 26, 2011 by Brian Leave a Comment

I woke up on the right side of the bed this morning because I was feeling extremely appreciative of the things that improve my life. Hopefully you'll already have some of these things. Maybe you'll consider a purchase in your future. Weber Grills My neighbor has a Weber Grill from the 70's he never takes care of. It sits on his deck rain, shine, or snow and it starts every time. After going through a few grills during that span I decided to purchase a Weber Grill. The price is 2 or even 3 … [Read more...]

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Support & Maintenance Announcement

May 16, 2011 by Brian Leave a Comment

When I first started out web designing & developing I did so with both eyes to the horizon. Each job was new and exciting. Web designing is right in my wheel house because my strength is starting new ventures. I excel at taking a products and services and marketing them online in a way that's clean and easy to understand. As time rolled on various clients needed support from time to time. I was more then happy to provide that support, most of the time at no charge. After 3 years of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Web News Tagged With: back-up, support, WordPress Maintenance, WordPress support

Things Are A Brewin’

April 3, 2011 by Brian Leave a Comment

The end of this week I hope to have a few more key project either completed or nearly completed. Its been a busy first quarter that included many challenges including malware finding its way to my server account. Not only infecting me but about 20 other sites I host. I'm been working like a dog and couldn't be happier to see my Birthday month long gone. Bring on April and spring and a new way of doing business. I have a lot of exciting changes going on here at BrianLis.com. I hope to release … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Web News Tagged With: announcement, coming soon, support

How to Pick a WordPress Designer

November 29, 2010 by Brian Leave a Comment

I'm making the assumption that you've already landed on the best open source CMS (Content Management System), WordPress. If you're still deciding on a CMS read why WordPress is the above the rest. The next step is picking a design or a designer. If your a do-it-yourself type of person I suggest building on the Genesis Framework. However, be forewarned Genesis is a pretty code heavy. For everyone else I suggest hiring a designer/developer. The first and most important factor in hiring a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Web News Tagged With: Designers, WordPress

Brian Makes Time’s 2010 Top 50 Websites

November 18, 2010 by Brian Leave a Comment

One of my websites Total Pro Sports made CNN's Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites 2010! The success of this website is a credit to Anthony, the site owner. He spends a good deal of his time generating content and working social networks like Digg, Twitter, Facebook etc. But at the end of the day people can visit the site once, but its takes the right mix of content, design, and functionality to generate repeat visits. This is a great example of how important blogging is. If you look at any of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Web News Tagged With: CNN, Time, Time Magazine, Top 50, Total Pro Sports, Web Design, WordPress

Why WordPress?

November 16, 2010 by Brian Leave a Comment

Often I'm challenged on the wisdom of using WordPress an open source CMS vs. someone's proprietary CMS. The answer is pretty clear when you consider all the benefits. WordPress Is Flexible and Extendable Flexibility allows us to build sites faster, meaning more of your budget is focused on design and user experience rather than programming and debugging. The community has made it extendable, meaning that everything you can think of has already been built, which speeds up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Web News Tagged With: benefits, features, WordPress

Favorite WordPress Plugins

September 18, 2010 by Brian 1 Comment

While I have a favorite plugins page I thought I'd list out the essential plugins I use for every site I build. Featured Story: There are a number slider / image slide show galleries to choose from but none of them were easy for the end user. Other alternatives did not allow you to stylize any of the options. Featured Story does all that and its super easy to implement on your WordPress site. Google Sitemap Generator: This plugin maps out your site automatically that allows Google … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Web News Tagged With: featured story, plugins

Adding drop shadow to a box using style.css

August 15, 2010 by Brian Leave a Comment

Here's a cool technique I use to make a drop shadow effect without making a custom image. Which not only saves on file size but its cool ;) -moz-box-shadow: 0 5px 10px #333333; box-shadow: 0 5px 10px #333333; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 5px 10px #333333; /* For IE 8 */ -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=4, Direction=135, Color='#333333')"; /* For IE 5.5 - 7 */ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=4, Direction=135, Color='#333333'); You can … [Read more...]

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WordPress “Pretty” Links

August 9, 2010 by Brian Leave a Comment

WordPress creates pages & posts like this http://brianlis.com/?p=123 Not exactly SEO friendly or even human friendly as p=123 probably doesn't mean anything to anyone. To change the way your pages are displayed inside your WP admin panel goto Settings>Permalinks. Switch the settings to custom and use the value /%postname%.htm or /%postname%.html or /%postname%/ depending on how you want your post slug or URL to be displayed. There might be SEO advantages as to the ending you use. I've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Web News Tagged With: Permalinks, Pretty Links, WordPress

WordPress robots.txt file

August 6, 2010 by Brian 2 Comments

The robots.txt file is something that WordPress auto generates that tells search engine spiders how to index your site. The file is auto generated for you. You can find your robots.txt by just adding "robots.txt" behind your domain name. The generic WP robots.txt is this. User-agent: * Disallow: Sitemap: http://brianlis.com/sitemap.xml.gz This code tells spiders indexing your site to refer to the sitemap.xml.gz file to index your site. Hopefully your using a sitemap. If not you can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Web News Tagged With: robots.txt, seo, WordPress

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Client Testimony

Chicago Hope Academy

Brian and his team built our school, Chicago Hope Academy, an amazing website over a year ago. Our needs at the time were multimedia creation for fund raising, recruiting of new students, and a calendar system that our entire school could access easily & quickly. Brian was very professional and exceeded our original requirements.

A year later as our demands have changed, Brian has been very accessible. He was able to quickly provide technical support and new solutions. Before we used our website for basic informational purposes. Now it is a central location for highlighting school events and coordinating parent involvement. Students can apply for enrollment and supporters can make donations directly on the website.

We definitely made the right choice in web developers and have become one of Brian’s biggest advocates. He’s prompt, accessible, and has a fantastic comprehension of his field.

David Geeslin

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