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The Anatomy of a Perfect Website

7 Dec 11 by Rick Tuttle

Check out this infographic by R.O.I. Media Web Design on the anatomy of the perfect website. Interesting stuff.


The Anatomy of a perfect website

Infographic by R.O.I. Media Web Design

Filed Under: Blog, Web Development

WordPress Custom Content: Refresh So Fla + WordPress

8 Sep 11 by Rick Tuttle

Here is my presentation from the Refresh South Florida + WordPress meetup on September 8, 2011. It’s an overview of Custom Content in WordPress and meant as a general over. Resources links can be found below as well.

  • Online Presentation: WordPress Custom Content: Refresh South Florida + WordPress – September 8, 2011

Resource Links

  • Mark Jaquith: Post Formats vs. Custom Post Types
  • Otto: Post Types and Formats and Taxonomies, Oh My! (Please read the other relevant articles on Otto’s site)
  • Justin Tadlock: Custom Post Types in WordPress
  • WordPress Codex: Custom Taxonomies
  • WordPress Codex: Post Types
  • WordPress Codex: Post Formats
  • just read the codex 🙂

Filed Under: Blog, Presentations, WordPress

WordPress Web Hosting Lessons Learned

24 Aug 10 by Rick Tuttle

Recently I helped a client move their WordPress web site to a new web host. They had been using Earthlink for years. (I didn’t even know that Earthlink did web hosting.)

We decided to get a VPS account at HostGator, where we got our own cPanel and lots more control than we actually needed for the site. However, the assurance that only our web sites would be running in our virtual space made me feel a lot better.

Overall I have been impressed with HostGator. It was my first experience using them. I have been a DreamHost customer for years and were it not for the fact that I have 30+ sites running on my DH account I would move to HostGator in a heartbeat. I did not feel confident enough about DH to recommend them to my customer.

So, after we got the new account set up on HostGator I uploaded the web site files and the WordPress database and we were in business. The only thing left was to do the DNS cutover.

In all my years of web development experience DNS cutovers have usually taken anywhere between 4 and 8 hours to propagate. Of course, when you do a cutover you want to ensure that the old web site is available for long enough to support the propagation and that was the plan with this cutover.

It turns out that using HostGator VPS you have to create your own nameservers. No problem I thought. Even NameCheap.com which is a reseller for eNom which is a reseller for Verisign let me create my own nameservers. We contacted Earthlink and their support staff didn’t even know what it meant to create a nameserver. The customer was handling the contact with Earthlink and during the course of a few days trying to get the nameservers set up Earthlink at one point recommended shutting down the existing account. For whatever reason, this actually happened and the DNS had not been cut over yet.

To make a long story short, my client’s web site was down for close to 2 whole days and Earthlink still had no way for us to create a nameserver. For every DNS change request that we had with Earthlink they told us it would take between 24 and 72 hours. It turns out that they use Network Solutions and they only put in change requests during a certain time in the afternoon. So, we would have to call Earthlink and wait for their request to get sent to NetSol. Then we’d have to wait for NetSol to handle the request.

The solution I came up with was to create my own temporary name servers and point those to the new HostGator VPS IP address. I then told Earthlink to use those nameservers. After waiting an unusually long time the web site finally came up.

Here’s how you can avoid a similar horror story in the future:

  • Don’t use a company to host your website that is not really in the business of web hosting (hint: Earthlink).
  • No matter what, make sure your current web host will keep the site up during the DNS changeover.
  • Plan for the worst.

The last thing I would recommend is to use a site like webhostgear.com to get cPanel hosting reviews and recommendations on WordPress hosting options.

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: web hosting

WordCamp Miami 2010 Slides

20 Feb 10 by Rick Tuttle

Here are my slides for my WordCamp Miami 2010 presentation: Using WordPress as a CMS.

Filed Under: WordPress

WordCamp Miami 2010

29 Jan 10 by Rick Tuttle


WordCamp is coming to Miami, Saturday February 20, 2010. This year’s speakers will include Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, Mark Jaquith, Jim Turner and lots more…including yours truly.

Find out everything you need to know and register at the WordCamp Miami website. Follow WordCamp Miami on Twitter to keep in touch.

Kudos to local WordPress gurus, David Bisset, John James Jacoby and John Carcutt who have done a super job organizing the event in an extremely short timeframe!

Feel free to add your comments to let me know what you would like to learn at WordCamp Miami 2010.

Filed Under: WordPress

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