Using Google Cloud Storage as backup for your linux server is inexpensive if you use the nearline storage option. This is cheaper that Amazon Web Services (at the time of writing) The process I use is as follows. Backup locally Create storage bucket / folders, set lifecycle Script to move backups find way to execute [Read the full article…]
Export WordPress Content to Hugo
Download zip from here and install plugin https://github.com/SchumacherFM/wordpress-to-hugo-exporter
Hosting a Static Site on Amazon web Services
Really need to use Route 53 DNS so make this a bit different. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website-hosting-intro.html
Build and host a static website with Hugo and Google Cloud Storage
WordPress is overkill for 90% of small business websites, especially if they are only every going to ask the web developer to make changes. Static websites used to be just that, static, but now it is possible to create static websites that are simple (relatively) to update dynamically. Hugo is a Golang project that [Read the full article…]
14 places to get Free Stock Images for Websites
Sourcing images for websites is a tricky and time consuming businesses. The worse thing you can do is go to Google, find and image you like and download it and upload it to your website. It is not rare that the copyright owner will find you and request payment for the use you ‘stole’ from [Read the full article…]
Integrating Google Forms / Sheets to External API
This example is of Google Forms submitting to Fresh Desk Google forms is an easy to use form builder that has many uses. One advantage of Google Forms is that is is effectively free, either within ‘consumer’ Google Accounts, or more importantly is business Google Apps for Work / Education / Government accounts. When automating [Read the full article…]
Why businesses should use a Google Apps consultant?
Google Apps consultants help businesses do what they need to do – that is focus on their businesses but still get the IT solutions they need. As a consultant brings expertise that isn’t available in-house either because of skill or resource constraints. Google Apps is a set of tools that totally replaces the Microsoft Office [Read the full article…]
Moving email to Google Apps
This is the first post of mine relating to Google Apps for Works, or as it used to be called Google Apps for Business. One of the primary reasons a business moves to Google Apps is for email, well at least this is a very common reason. Google Apps actually provides so much more than [Read the full article…]
WordPress Woocommerce to Parcelbright integration
Parcelbright is a uk parcel service for businesses. Woocomerce is the leading WordPress ecommerce plugin. I am in the process of building a plugin to integrate Parcelbright into WordPress using their API. Features could include Create a shipment: View a shipment: Book a shipment: Track a shipment: Cancel a shipment: There is quite a lot [Read the full article…]
Google Chrome extract links
Extract links from a Google Chrome page Inspect element Go to console run urls = $$(‘a’); for (url in urls) console.log ( urls[url].href );
