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Drone Part 107 Practice Links & Tips
Video Production Game Changer If your business is video, a drone is a must-have in 2020. Gone are the days of the thousand-dollar helicopter “one shot to get the shot” days. Now for just a few hundred bucks, anyone can become an areal photography/video footage charger. However, if you want to play it safe as…
Adjusting Data for Scheduled Jobs with Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce
How to change your settings for daily exports Step 1 Login to the WordPress dashboard with admin access Step 2 a) Hover your mouse over “WooCommerce”b) Click on “Export Orders” *Careful, if you’re website has multiple order export plugins you may have similar looking options here. “Export Orders” is the link for the “Advanced Order…
How to add a manager to your Google Business listing
Adding someone to help manage your Google Business listing is an easy process By adding someone who is knowledgeable in the forever-changing google machine to help you manage your Google Business page can help you save a ton of time. If you hire a pro it can be the difference when a customer chooses you…
How to access & evaluate your freshly designed website
Website Development Complete Enter; Evaluation Phase First off, congratulations on your newly designed website! We strive to design and develop each Idea Swell website with the absolute most advanced tech and fully custom graphics. Evaluation & Feedback Prior your site going live to the public we want to make sure you have been given the…
St Petersburg, FL SEO & Web Design *Discount*
$100 Off SEO & Web Design for St. Petersburg, FL Residents Why Give Only St. Pete Residents a Discount on Web Design and SEO? Born in Miami but raised in St. Pete, FL, Clayton Mayo, founder of IdeaSwell graduated from Lakewood High off 54th Ave S. in 2002. If you’re Lakewood Alumni; Idea Swell, LLC….
Too busy to update our portfolio!
As we balance the scales of time management on a huge application development project (our own app!) & client projects we haven’t had the time to update the IdeaSwell portfolio. We also just completed a huge three video + webpage project & an e-commerce store, however, neither are live to the public yet so we…
What exactly is ‘Responsive Design’?
Fundamental to user engagement & conversion rates Every user who visits your site needs to be visually entertained and intrigued or they won’t stay much longer than a second. If your site isn’t mobile-friendly you’ll be missing out on over half of the potential leads coming through your website. “Once your page loads, users form…
WordPress SSL Add-on / Integration Is Now Vital
Google drops the hammer As Google has decided yet again to drop the hammer on the world wide web they are now flexing a new muscle thanks to the wide adoption of Google Chrome. Chrome, if you didn’t know is an internet browser such as Internet Explorer or Safari. Chrome now accounts for over half…
Google maps, ads & service consulting
Get a head start on the competition with professional Google services consulting Google Maps Assistance Specially vital for the success of marketing campaigns for service companies with a local target market, Google Maps and Google Plus page creation and optimization are services we offer. We have worked with several such companies and quickly brought each…
Website & Domain Name Transferring
Strategic, surgical, and careful transferring of your domain or website. Different Elements First off, please be aware that these are indeed two different elements. Your website’s domain name might be hosted with company ‘X’ while the website itself is hosted with company ‘Z’. This can be done by modifying the DNS records and is quite…
Now offering pro photo services for our web design clients
We are now offering media solutions to the Madeira Beach, Tampa, Clearwater, St. Petersburg and surrounding areas to help our clients grow their online presence. Imagery is key to a well-designed website and some might even say that imagery is the MOST important aspect of a website when it comes to keeping visitors on the…
How to create a post/article on your website
First thing first Write your post in a text editor such as notepad or MS word. When writing your post directly on the website you risk losing your work in the event of an internet or site glitch. Securely log into your website’s admin panel Login to your website via the login page. For your…
Hurricane Irma Worst-Case Scenario for Pinellas County, FL
How would this ‘Worst-Case’ Scenario affect the Pinellas County area? Project Phoenix The “Tampa Bay Catastrophic Plan: Project Phoenix”, a worst-case scenario plan developed in 2010 by The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council and multiple other contributors included FEMA has laid out the following outcomes of a fictitious storm dubbed “Hurricane Pheonix”. Day 1, Landfall…
Volkswagen, sponsor my big US road trip!
Dear Volkswagen, I am currently planning a thirteen thousand mile road trip encompassing the USA in my VW GTI. The trip will be kicking off in June of 2017. I plan to film the entire trip and have six years experience as a videographer and editor. I have filmed and edited over 30 full length…
How to view your Gravity Forms entries
Step 1 Log into your account. Step 2 Click “Forms” Step 3 Click “Entries” Step 4 Near the top of the page, click the small arrow. This will release a new option. You will then need to again click the drop down arrow on the element that has been made visible. Step 5 Select the…
Divi Builder: Global Elements Management
How to manage your Divi Builder global elements (modules and sections) Divi makes it easy! Instead of using PHP directly, the Divi Builder lets you manage elements that may be utilized in different pages of your site, without having to go into each page to edit those elements. A: This is a global section. To…
Layer Slider – Flashing Screen on slide transitions: Version 6.2.2
Since updating to the most recent Layer Slider (Version 6.2.2), my sliders are flashing in between transitions. Highly annoying. Tested on two sites and both are having the same issue. Current work around was to create timed layers on a single slide but that is an awfully time consuming job. I will post an update…
How to manage your restaurant menu with the Divi builder
No viable plugin solutions for a restaurant menu with WordPress After a thorough search for a plugin that would allow for easy updating of the restaurant’s menu and only finding either highly expensive options or basic, $30 a year type plugins of which I was not a fan of any. Some had not been updated…
How to edit Visual Form Builder Pro: required fields
First up, navigate to visual form builder pro by selecting “VFB Pro” on the left side nav menu in your WordPress dashboard. Next up, click directly on the title of the application you wish to edit. Click on the arrow to the far right of the element you wish to edit. This will open the…
Google now gives a boost to secure (HTTPS) websites
As of January 2017 Google Chrome, the majority leader in web browser usage (73% of the total market, according to W3Schools) will be giving websites with an SSL installed a boost on the page rankings (source. Although they are not technically penalizing non-SSL websites, this practice could easily cost your website ranking positions as SSL…
