The Basebuild blog
Welcome to the Basebuild blog where we discuss everything from random plant life, to the black bears of North Carolina, to Wordpress and Drupal, to how to build a video library online :).
Who is hosting John Doe’s website?
Some clients are self-admittedly not exactly tech geniuses and so it’s not always the best thing to believe them on the hosting end of things. https://www.whoishostingthis.com/ allows you to get the low down on the host, IP addresses, name [...] Read More »
Find out what websites are built on in seconds
Builtwith.com is just a super simple little tool that enables to you to immediately get the lowdown on what a site is “built with”. It provides a pretty detailed list of the different techs used. Nothing fancy but I personally [...] Read More »
Build your own Metrics dashboard
So we’ve been asked a few times at this point to create an all encompassing analytics dashboard that pulls all social, inbound etc. analytics into one easy to process interface. We were about to look into what would be involved [...] Read More »
Need a link shortener with analytics combined?
Tr.im is a pretty neat and simple little URL shortener in that it has a nice simple look and feel about it. You can quickly and easily sign up for a free account, choose your own short URL (assuming it’s [...] Read More »
Poll: What problems do you encounter most working with contractors?
I thought this was an interesting set of stats provided by the insanely talented folks at Net magazine. Turns out personality clashes and understanding roles can throw a wrench in the works. Ultimately though these are both communication related [...] Read More »
