Posted on 15th, February 2020 2:16 PM by Spencer Hill
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SSH into the server. The server IP address and SSH username and password are stored in our secure information storage utility. If that information does not work, it’s possible it’s out of date and you can recover it from our DigitalOcean.com account by navigating to that server and then selecting Access and resetting the password. […]
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Posted on 13th, February 2020 8:23 PM by Spencer Hill
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General Only use Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA when using a Google CAPTCHA. Do not use a CAPTCHA that is not Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA without express permission. Website Search & Filter utilities must operate without page reload. It must be customizable by our clients, non-developers. And it must include predictive search capabilities. Functioning identically to WPFacet.com a […]
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Posted on 5th, February 2020 6:28 PM by Spencer Hill
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10, IDE's, Programming
This article documents the key obstacles I faced while trying to set up my local development environment for general Laravel development. The Context I’m on Windows 10, with Git installed from Git-SCM.com and running the latest version of Adobe’s Dreamweaver. Which means installing Git and utilizing Dreamweavers Git GUI. I had this installed previously […]
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Posted on 7th, November 2019 9:53 PM by Spencer Hill
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Careers
We’re growing and seeking an additional full time sales person. The Ideal Candidate: Must be local and able to commute to our Sherwood, Oregon office daily. At least 3 years of business to business sales experience. Excellent computer skills. Extensive familiarity with social media platforms. You use or know how to use Facebook, LinkedIn, Google […]
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Posted on 18th, September 2019 4:47 PM by Spencer Hill
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Careers
We are seeking a part-time local PHP developer to work out of our Sherwood office. Job Description Generally, the work will be scattered and small tasks. Occasionally tasks that may take a few days to a couple of weeks to complete. Communicate over email and phone with clients about their same-day change requests. Enter them […]
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Posted on 8th, August 2019 4:26 PM by Spencer Hill
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This article outlines the steps we need to take to set up a new staff member with everything they need. We have two types of staff; permanent and temporary. But all are contractors. Permanent staff get email addresses because they may interface directly with clients. Temporary staff may work for us long term but […]
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Posted on 1st, July 2019 7:00 AM by Spencer Hill
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Careers
We are growing and are in need of an additional marketing manager on a permanent part-time basis which will grow to full time. We are a teaching company, on-the-job learning is encouraged but this is a position that requires certain non-negotiable skills. Who should apply? The ideal candidate must: Full of ideas. Loves to […]
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Posted on 28th, May 2019 3:21 PM by Spencer Hill
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Professional Liability Policy Document 1 Occupation is listed as “website design” but it should be “Information Technology” – which is more encompassing and inclusive. We design, but we write code, consult, manage advertising, etc… Website Design is under their IT umbrella, title isn’t important as long as that’s at least one of the services you […]
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Posted on 13th, May 2019 12:47 PM by Spencer Hill
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Digital Marketing
There’s that old saying “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” But this time might be the exception! Photographers are, at their core, judged by their cover photos. You can instantly tell if you’d be satisfied with that quality of work. So this article is not as focused on identifying quality photographers but more focused […]
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As of the writing of this document we rely on PayPal for charging clients cards, sending invoices and managing our finances. PayPal One Time Payments Hover over Tools > choose Virtual Terminal. Leave everything but the following as defaults: Amount Description – Should be the Product name. Or link to the Proposal if it’s multi-item. […]
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Posted on 5th, May 2019 8:43 PM by Spencer Hill
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First and foremost, an executive assistant is a catch all. But a catch all who should exercise autonomy in knowing when responsibilities can and should be delegated to another role. The primary goal of this person is to offload responsibilities from the executive team so they can focus on activities that grow and protect the […]
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Posted on 21st, April 2019 8:33 PM by Spencer Hill
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U6JmzQURnuvetJFUWkIy8Z4CfvyDM1YLcNb_53Z2M0o/edit?ts=5c9e2a5a
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Posted on 19th, April 2019 9:11 PM by Spencer Hill
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In this video we show you how we store, access and manage clients credentials such as their WordPress username, SFTP credentials, social media account logins and more.
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Posted on 16th, April 2019 1:50 PM by Spencer Hill
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Company News, Press Releases
This position has been filled. We are seeking a part time (2-4 hours a week) executive assistant who will grow into full time. This person must be local to Portland, Oregon, USA and available to work from our Sherwood, Oregon office daily M-F during the training period. But we encourage working remotely, and respect the […]
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Posted on 4th, April 2019 7:25 PM by Spencer Hill
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Razer
As a company, we do professional cinematography, video production and photography. Having excellent headphones when shooting on set is essential for ending up with a great product. Interestingly, premium gaming headphones are often some of the highest quality headphones – especially with a mic – that you can get. So I recently purchased the Razer […]
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Posted on 3rd, March 2019 2:43 PM by Spencer Hill
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This article outlines exactly what you are expected to know and do as a developer on this team: General Expectations Thank you for joining our team! It is central to our mission to ensure you absolutely love working with and for our company. If you don’t feel that way: tell us! We will listen […]
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Posted on 19th, October 2018 6:20 PM by Spencer Hill
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Bash / Shell, Programming, Roots, Tips and Tricks, Trellis
Context I recently upgraded to MacOS Mojave. Problem When I ran vagrant up for an existing site (but was new to my machine) I got an error message after entering my password: tee: /etc/exports: Operation not permitted mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported There was actually more to the error but […]
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Posted on 17th, October 2018 9:17 PM by Spencer Hill
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Bedrock, Roots, Sage Theme, Trellis
We have a love-hate relationship with Roots. What we’ve learned in the past 18 months of developing WordPress ecosystems with Trellis, Bedrock and Sage is that Roots claims to be a faster way to develop WordPress websites, but that’s not the whole story. Our experience has been that lack of clarity on what technology, […]
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Posted on 3rd, September 2018 11:20 AM by Spencer Hill
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This article explains why our server permissions are setup uniquely from typical servers, how they got that way and how to troubleshoot issues. The Why If you’ve developed WordPress websites in the past, you may think there isn’t a problem relating to permissions and we’ve just over complicated it. But, unless your server uses […]
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Posted on 30th, August 2018 12:24 PM by Spencer Hill
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2D Vector Design, Adobe, Illustrator
In this video we’ll show you how to create a city scape, with water, and adding depth of field with multi-tone colors, layers and vector elements to create weather. This tutorial copies and deconstructs a design we found on Matt Simons’ website. All credit for the design goes to his design team. Download the Illustrator […]
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Posted on 23rd, August 2018 9:57 AM by Spencer Hill
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We have switched from our former web-server-1.iteratemarketing.com to a newer model under TPC. How to configure NGinx and PHP-FPM for increased uploads. On Ubuntu 16.04 edit /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini look for lines post_max_size and upload_max_filesize and set them both to 1000m. Then reboot PHP (sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm) and NGinx (sudo systemctl restart nginx) How to configure NGinx […]
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Posted on 16th, August 2018 4:16 PM by Spencer Hill
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sudo certbot –nginx Choose the domain from the list. You’re done. sudo letsencrypt –nginx Choose from the domain list. You’re done.
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Posted on 28th, July 2018 10:36 AM by Spencer Hill
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Programming, Tips and Tricks, Website Development
We created a plain text list of all countries in the world and their respective states / provinces / counties. It’s incomplete but that’s the goal. Available on GitHub in raw format.
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Posted on 24th, June 2018 3:55 PM by Spencer Hill
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Programming, Website Development
We developer custom WordPress Themes from scratch and existing platforms like Roots (Trellis, Bedrock and Sage), as well as custom WordPress Plugins. We’ve done so for almost the entire time we’ve been in business (circa 2005). Over time we’ve gradually discovered the limitations with WordPress but ultimately decided that the alternatives were just that: an […]
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Posted on 30th, April 2018 9:12 AM by Spencer Hill
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Uncategorized
I have a knack for hitting every possible obstacle. It stems from the early days of my education and is something I’ve had to hobble through life trying to mitigate. Since the internet though, I’ve found that there are many others like me. So when I try a new technology I am in the habit […]
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Posted on 13th, April 2018 6:00 AM by Spencer Hill
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AdWords, Pay Per Click Management, Search Marketing
A client recently asked us this question: “I was looking over our Google AdWords campaign and noticed we are no longer being charged around $X a click but $X more per click. And then on the ad groups some terms are even more per click. Is there a way to bring down the cost per […]
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Posted on 6th, April 2018 6:32 PM by Spencer Hill
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AdWords, Pay Per Click Management
If you’re investigating hiring a company to manage your advertising on Google AdWords (and other platforms) then this article was written specifically to help you understand the typical pricing models and the pros and cons. This article specifically talks about Google AdWords, but it really can apply to other platforms like Facebook Advertising, Instagram Advertising, […]
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