Steven Shomler has two professional titles – “Culinary Storyteller” and “LifeStory Alchemist.” In the summer of 2011 Steven Shomler set out to change his life & build a whole new career out of thin air by applying the perspectives, and tactics he had related to...
Next month we all will be getting ready for the holidays! November starts the holiday time and because things are getting so busy we want to encourage everyone to - think ahead! If you are going to be busy in the upcoming months, please take the time to submit a...
WordPress has made the plugin-update process easier recently by giving sites the option of automatically updating selected plugins. More often than not, activating this option will make sense. In some cases, though, updating a plugin can cause conflicts, errors, or...
Google Analytics is a free service that gives website owners a wide range of information about the visitors to their websites: where the visitors are, what kind of device they’re using to view the site, which other site or search engine referred them to the site, and...
After moving from Tampa to Cedar Rapids in 2008, I took over The ACCESSline, Iowa’s LGBT+ community newspaper. One of the best decisions I made while working with the paper was hiring Angela Geno-Stumme as Assistant Editor in 2010 When I finally made the difficult...
Chance to win Gift Card As HOMM Client One part of FireSpike’s “Hands-On Monthly Maintenance” ("HOMM") service for WordPress websites is checking with our customers that they are receiving the submissions from their website’s contact forms. Each month we will be...
In 2001 I was working as an Art Director for a company called MediaCentric. In the spring of that year, MediaCentric decided to switch from being a website and software development company to being a telecom company, and—long story short—I decided to move on to other...
Troubleshooting During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Who We Helped This Month This month, FireSpike has worked hard to help our family of customers make their services available online. All have unique needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, here are a few examples. More than...
Yesterday I received a call from Michael Littman, asking if I could set up online ordering on the WordPress website we had built for Hapa Ramen & Whiskey. Their phone and take-out ordering, to continue serving food during this early stage of the COVID-19 crisis,...
A Chance to Win a $10 (or $100!) Amazon Gift Card! To encourage our customers to use our ticket system, starting April 1, 2020, we will be doing a monthly drawing for a $10 Amazon gift card. One random month each year the prize will be a $100 Amazon gift card. To...