lite-code | design / develop / educate | grand rapids, michigan

June 2010

• “Radio Show” on 95.3 FM

  posted by Rob in Blog, Portfolio

  Wed 2^nd

  Radio Show is a new local radio program hosted by myself (Rob Givans) and Monica Brown every Monday at 6pm on 95.3FM/1680AM WPRR.

February 2010

• Do you use Gmail? And want a image in your signature?

  posted by Rob in Blog

  Thu 25^th

  I use Gmail to manage all of my email and recently started to want to have an image in my signature. Sounds simple enough right? Well unless you know what you’re looking for to get this to work than you will mostly become frustrated and annoyed by Gmail. Before it gets to that point, you [...]

• The Foursquare App will spark local business

  posted by Rob in Blog

  Thu 25^th

  I recently jumped on board with a new kind of social networking tool. But instead of it focusing directly on me, it basically wants to know where I am. It works by checking-in to a business or public place that a lot of people visit, such as Schools, Parks, Government Buildings and anything else that [...]

• Photography is fun!

  posted by Rob in Blog, Portfolio

  Thu 18^th

  When I am not working on websites or anything else for that matter. I usually will snap photos, I’ll admit I haven’t been doing it nearly as much as I used to…..

• Benefits of Paypal / Google Checkout

  posted by Rob in Blog

  Wed 17^th

  I have used Joomla a lot in my days of coding, and would recommend it to anyone to power a shopping cart. If you need help or advice feel free to send me a message and I will help you any way possible.

• Google Talk Back + Woopra = AWESOME!

  posted by Rob in Blog

  Fri 12^th

  I recently was looking into adding a live chat plug-in to my site to help clients with questions live and on the fly. I have been using a analytics software called Woopra, which basically gives you live site stats. They have a nice little utility you can view everything in via your desktop. I am [...]

• Artpeers.org in Grand Rapids, MI

  posted by Rob in Blog

  Mon 8^th

  A small non-profit company located in Grand Rapids, MI is putting together a show on April 14 at the Wealthy Theatre. A ton of local artists (music and visual). The line up is: (no particular order) Paucity The Red Sea Pedestrians A.B! & Coconut Brown Ritsu Charles the Osprey Seth Thompson Lights at Sea The [...]

January 2010

• Joomla and VirtueMart Image Issues….

  posted by Rob in Blog

  Mon 18^th

  lite-code has been working on a T-shirt e-commerce site for over a month now that is powered by Joomla with the  VirtueMart module. The setup and layout is very tedious but powerful with the dedicated time. I have been having issues with the images for the products being re-sized too slightly different sizes, they are [...]

• The dreaded “Fatal Error: Allowed memory size of 33554432″

  posted by Rob in Blog

  Sat 9^th

  I recently updated a personal blog for someone when I got an error that kind of freaked me out. It was “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1010456 bytes) in /home1/crawfos2/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1027″ I have to admit, if it wasn’t for my patience and Google, I would have [...]

• The vanishing “Visual Editor”

  posted by Rob in Blog

  Thu 7^th

  We use WordPress at least 20 times a day for random tasks, posts or reading other blogs to troubleshoot or diagnose issues. The other day on a blog I have been working on for a client for almost a month now, the Visual Editor within WordPress disappeared for no reason. I didn’t run any updates [...]