Small Business Technology Consulting
Should you use WordPress for your small business or organization website? The answer might well be yes. It has been the right choice for 40% or more of the sites out there. We'll tell you three reasons it's the only website creation software we support.
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Snagit is a great little app. It is easy! It lets you take screen captures of anything on your computer and draw arrows, write text whatever you need to get your point across or to save a detail you need to remember.
The new Block Editor in WordPress is great but an easy transition is important. This quick video demonstrates how to use the Classic Editor plugin to ease into your transition.
Horse breeder websites have a specialized layout problem - making pedigree tables look good. This wasn't easy in WordPress. Gutenberg makes it harder.
WordPress is going to have a new editor when the next major release happens. Read more to find out how we'll handle this big, big change.
Our website portfolio page has finally been published. It's just a start, but you see websites we have built and get an idea if we can help you with your website.
You are getting pretty good at WordPress. You are wondering if you can save some money and take over your own website maintenance. How hard can it be to maintain your own WordPress website? Sure you can do it. Absolutely! And if you have been one of our WordPress Website Annual Care clients, we’ll even …
Microsoft will never call you. Scammers do call and claim to be from Microsoft. They want remote access to your computer. Please read this article to find out what the Microsoft Scam is, what to do about it, and why it works. If you remember nothing else, remember to hang up immediately!
Keeping WordPress up to date can be a time-consuming job. The tricky issues become easier with experience. Read on to see our process.
Your computer was working just fine. It suited you well enough. Then one day you turned it on because you had to do something and disaster struck! Your computer had upgraded itself to Windows 10 even though you had told it many times you didn’t want it to! Now key software applications, like maybe your …
We hear a lot these days about online accounting options. You know . . . you can do your books with your smart phone while you are crawling under someone’s house looking at their plumbing. Obviously, that’s the best thing ever, right? Ok, that was sarcastic but it is a stupid TV commercial. And besides, …
This is my favorite little QuickBooks tip! Why? Because it is easy, it is very useful to every QuickBooks user, and because a lot of experienced users don’t know it. QuickBooks has a little calculator built into all the transaction screens. It’s right where you need it – in any of the amount fields. Just …
Should you upgrade your home business or small business computers to Windows 10? Maybe, maybe not. There are lots of things to consider. Read on to find out some of what I think you should consider before you click that button.
Should you subscribe to Office 365? Microsoft would like you to pay them at least $10/month forever. In exchange you get current access to all of your favorite Office software like Excel. And more.
If your farm or ranch is a sole proprietorship, how do you handle personal transactions, business transactions, and split transactions? This is a common question so I thought I’d address it. First and foremost, please consider getting a separate business bank account for your farm and ranch transactions. Keeping a separate personal and business account …
If you use Thunderbird for your email software, this article will describe how to get your address book file saved to a jump drive. You’ll need to do that either when you move your email to another computer or you want to back up your address book. Doing that on occasion is a very good …
“How do I handle payments to credits cards in QuickBooks? We hear that question frequently, so I thought I’d go ahead and answer it here. The problem is, like so many computer-related questions, the answer is that it depends. We recommend different approaches to handling credit cards in QuickBooks depending on the a few factors. …
Different accountants have different reports they like to see, so this is just a general guideline. It would be best to find out exactly what reports they want. If that doesn’t happen, here’s a fallback position. You can find Reports either by bringing up the Report Center or by using the Report menu at the …
This is a fun topic for once! Normally, when I talk about backing up files, I’m struggling to think of the best of the bad alternatives. CDs and DVDs are a pain but cheap and easy to store offsite. External hard drives are easier but not cheap and most of us don’t want to scatter …
If you want to update your QuickBooks manually, you can. When you first install QuickBooks, you should do this before you do anything else. While most people choose to set their QB to update automatically, some of us with satellite internet connections have to control our bandwidth and choose to do manual installs of updates. …
If you have a bank account you used to use and have closed or a loan account you have paid off, those accounts won’t show up on the Balance Sheet when you pull it up. That’s frustrating when you want to see the activity in that account. How can you find those transactions? There are …
Sometimes you just want to get a bunch of data typed into an easy to use piece of software and know you can get that data back out summarized however you might need it. That data might be cattle records, your expenses for the year, or some other information. Excel is made to summarize data …
