Wix, Squarespace, etc versus Elementor WordPress Sites
Some time ago I wrote a post about Elementor making me competitive with WordPress versus those who use website builders like Wix, Namespace, Weebly, etc. Today I had the opportunity of working on Amazon book marketing and the Facebook page of a client who has a Wix website. It’s a pretty site but it isn’t as pretty or […]
Building Website So Users Can Make Easy Impact Changes
I get pretty frustrated with potential clients. I get a lot of silly contact emails asking about help with their site. They almost always start off with something like “I’m pretty good managing my own site but….”. Then they outline what they can’t get to work, tell me it is a “little job” but could […]
Clean, Crisp, Powerful Pre-Built Websites for Small Businesses
This week Fast Fix Web Design launched a new subdomain, Free Fast Fix Web Design. The purpose of the new site is to provide small businesses with quality free pre-built websites. Fast Fix already offered quality model websites for a price. They often included a Premium theme that would have cost the user $59 or more and, […]
Building A WordPress Freelance Business In Boston and Then Minneapolis – St.Paul
Last year, 2016, was the year of Mike Griffin dot me. In other words, it was the year where I moved from a decade long suffering from The Imposter Syndrome to recognition that I’m a damn good WordPress Website developer. I’m not a great PHP developer, although I have to be competent to modify and maintain […]
Introducing Fast Fix Web Design
I’m launching a new Web Design business today, Fast Fix Web Design. MikeGriffin.me has been good to me and I’m not complaining about business, in general. But I’m getting more requests for fixed price fully customized websites. The majority of the developers in that business do custom themes. I could have gone that route but I’ve just seen […]
Some MikeGriffin.me Site Updates
WordPress is under appreciated by those who think it is just a sort of WYSIWYG tool for building websites and/or blogging. Once you learn what’s “under the hood” it is a really powerful website creation framework. Today I looked at my website and thought “I don’t like it”. I don’t just not like it, […]
Elementor, HTML, PHP, CSS and Competent WordPress Website Development
The Path to Becoming a Top WordPress Developer Recently I’ve been seeing more and more crap from sites that clients bring to me because they are unhappy with them. I am also really tired of the garbage that GoDaddy, Fatcow, Bluehost and others load into WordPress when someone choses their “WordPress Hosting” option. Of course I have […]
Chicago Personal Injury Attorneys – Cooperative Beautiful Website Design
The Beauty of Client-Developer Cooperation WordPress Website Development My client,Goldstein Bender & Romanoff, finally went live with one of my favorite website design and build projects. It is one of my favorites because it was really excellent collaboration from start to finish but especially on the color palette and image choices as well as the […]
Best In Class WordPress Developer
The one thing that using Elementor has done for me is expose me to interesting comments, posts, questions and answers from the different kinds of WordPress Developers. There is no generally accepted differentiation but the five different types of WordPress Developers outlined in this article or the 7 different types outlined in that article give you a good […]
Funny Correlations Between What I Perceive as Political Stupidity and What I Perceive as WordPress Coding Stupidity
Some People…. ? Amuse me. ? Once I posted a question on some WordPress tech site. It was probably http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/ because, in general, I find the experts on Stackexchange mildly obnoxious. That is not to say they are not talented and genuine experts but just that many of them are obnoxious. So when I posted that question […]