Posted by Brian Mecham May 12th, 2010
Sometimes on your website you may want to open some content in a popup window rather than a new page, which allows the visitor to remain on the current page and view the new content.
Click to see an example of how this works.
Here’s how you do this…
Add the following javascript code to the header of [...]
Tags: hyperlink, javascript, popup
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Posted by Brian Mecham May 4th, 2010
I decided to opt for installing Windows XP via a USB Flash drive. I didn’t have an external DVD drive available. After following various complicated tutorials (which never did fully work for me) I found a very simple way to take the resulting Windows install files created by nLite (or copied from your Windows install disc) and create a bootable USB Flash drive
Tags: Windows XP
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Posted by Brian Mecham July 17th, 2009
From time to time, especially when moving a website from one server to another, I have to find out what the “absolute path” of my website is. Absolute path pertains to the directory on the server that the website is installed on…
Tags: absolute path, directory path, pathinfo, server path
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Posted by Brian Mecham July 15th, 2009
As I am creating websites I sometimes come across situations that require a more than basic knowledge and a bit of research to figure out.
Here’s a helpful hint regarding removing blank lines from an html file using dreamweaver, should you ever want to do that without having to manually delete the lines…
Click CTRL + F
Select [...]
Tags: How To, blank lines, dreamweaver
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Posted by Brian Mecham May 21st, 2009
The key to doing more during a 24-hour day is DOING LESS! Here are some tips that have been working for me in my quest to have a more productive day…
Tags: 24 hours, day, productivity
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Posted by Brian Mecham May 20th, 2009
I love designing websites with WordPress. It makes it easy for my clients to edit content on their own versus other solutions. For the longest time I’ve been disappointed that WordPress didn’t have the ability to define which widgets show up on which pages. It’s a feature I’d love to see built-in. There are two plugins that have been around for a while but are new to me. The plugins are a solution to my problem…
Tags: WordPress, customize, joomla, widgets
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Posted by Brian Mecham January 23rd, 2009
I’m on day five of the Master Cleanse. It was hard the first few days. Now it’s easy. I do miss food though: Indian Food, Mexican Food, and Pizza. LOL! It’s worth doing the cleanse though because of the health benefits.
Tags: lemon juice cleanse, master cleanse
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Posted by Brian Mecham January 21st, 2009
I am giving a presentation at a CEO Space Utah business networking meeting today on how to leverage the internet for business success. I put together a handout with some internet marketing, blogging, seo tips for attendees: http://www.poorrichards.net/internet-marketing-101
Tags: business success, depression, economics, economy, entrepreneur, internet marketing, leverage, recession, seo
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Posted by Brian Mecham January 19th, 2009
‘m starting a lemon juice cleanse. Basically for the next 10 days (or even longer) I won’t be eating anything, just drinking fresh squeezed lemon juice and water. I hope I can make it through at least 10 days; it’s very beneficial to healthy living and will clean out any toxins/diseases/parasites in my system. Read more about it here…
Tags: lemon cleanse, lemon juice, master cleanse, word of wisdom
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Posted by Brian Mecham January 16th, 2009
Sometimes I get the most work done during the middle of the night. It’s a time when there are no distractions, the kids are asleep and the phone is not ringing. There’s a downside to this – I miss out on regular business hours, miss calls, and whatever else I could have been doing. I’d [...]
Tags: up late
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Posted by Brian Mecham January 15th, 2009
I went to Kirk Duncan’s inMotion Mentoring class and business networking meeting on Tuesday. It was well worth my time. I really enjoyed the energy in the room and the content of the meeting. We talked about goals and to-do’s items that we have yet to do! I made a committment that I would work [...]
Tags: Brian Mecham, business networking, clients, goals, inMotion mentoring, kirk duncan, local bands, to-do, utah, web design
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Posted by Brian Mecham January 15th, 2009
I own a web design company. I love web design, SEO and Internet Marketing. It’s fun for me. Business has been slower the past three months but life couldn’t be better; it’s awesome! I have a feeling that things will start picking up very soon.
I often like to meditate within my head (have conversations with [...]
Tags: Brian Mecham, brmecham, business, jesus christ, sermon on the mount
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Posted by Brian Mecham January 15th, 2009
This is my personal blog. My online journal. I’ve got so many other personal project I’m working on, I hope to keep this one up. I plan to use this as a place to post my thoughts. I have other blogs and websites I have created that are a bit more formal, dedicated to teaching [...]
Tags: Brian Mecham, america, brmecham, constitution, freedom, internet marketing, latterdayconservative, ldsconservative, liberty, politics, seo, web design
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