I received a question tonight that I think came to me because of an old article on the now-defunct mycopyright.com site. I am just in the process of learning to blog. So, I would like to know how to protect my words with copyright. Thank you. This does not constitute legal advice, always check with your lawyer before taking any action. Copyright depends on where you are … [Read more...]

Google Analytics is a powerful tool for any website owner. It provides data on site visitors like how they found your site and what pages they were interested in. Making the data useful requires looking at reports and finding connections. The tool provides a lot of those reports already. To be able to see those insights at a glance, you can create a dashboard with different … [Read more...]

This new theme utilizes FontAwesome, an iconic font, to adapt to new locations and devices more easily. For example, the search magnifying glass, the RSS feed icon, and a few other icons around the site come from FontAwesome. I use Chrome as my default browser and all looked well and good there. When I was checking over the site in other browsers like Firefox and IE I … [Read more...]

While implementing the new theme for 404 Tech Support recently, I was running tests through Pingdom's full page test. Upon looking over the results, I saw a few external requests taking up time for Disqus, the third-party comment system I use. This isn't a criticism of Disqus because they provide a useful service. While testing out a different theme, Disqus would not show up at … [Read more...]

Over the past month, 404 Tech Support has been in transition. It was certainly not the plan for it to take that long. For a few weeks before I made any changes, I shopped around for themes. Most premium themes are now offered as responsive, able to transition gracefully to devices with different widths - from desktops to tablets to smartphones. I was hoping to move to a … [Read more...]