Montana Webmaster

06/02/2026

A SECURITY TIP FROM A CLIENT

Thanks to Cathi Greatorex from Doc Hammill Horsemanship for this security tip. I love it when my clients pass the security tips they find back to me!

Website owners add captcha's to their online forms to help keep spammer and scammer software from filling out the form. Captcha's have a sense of trust, which is why scammers also use them to collect data from internet users and also to get their malware into their software.

Cathy sent along a link to this video on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1518349179995814

I went a little further and did a search on "captcha scams". One of the sites that came up is from the Duke University IT department: https://security.duke.edu/news/beware-fake-captchas-and-error-message-scams/

https://dochammill.com/

04/16/2026

THIS WOMAN FOLLOWED AN INDUSTRIAL CLIENT
She's a 10, right? Hubba, Hubba! Of course, she is very interested in heavy machinery. What a great addition to their Facebook followers.

Here is an edited version of what I wrote to my client:
"there is a type of people who will Follow/Like your page. They are the scammers, s*x seekers, mashers and other undesirables. Your page has picked up one of those. You can tell they are a problem when you go to their page, they have photos of themselves like you would post on a dating site. Their page may even have some political or thoughtful posts, but it's the photos that give them away.

The reason that this is a problem, and not just an annoyance, is that they are trying to get people to click on their name/like/comment to go to their page. In the case of an industrial site, like yours, they are after high $ value men."

03/30/2026

A COMPANY THAT STANDS OUT

Over the years, B**a Pizza has taken the lead in honoring star employees who move on to other jobs. Instead of sending an armed guard to es**rt them out, like I have heard of other companies doing, they build send them away with a hug.

How can you just not love a company like that?

03/05/2026

NEW SECURITY ISSUES MAY BE WRECKING HAVOC WITH YOUR WEBSITE FORM RESPONSES

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03/02/2026

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY!

02/20/2026

DESIGN SHOULDN'T FORCE OUT USABILITY

From the view of a web developer, the work graphic artists can make the project shine, or make the project fail. If the project starts with the graphic artist and not the message and the market, it's likely to fall into the failed project pile.

Sometimes graphic artists make a website as unusable as these little round tables we encountered at a Starbucks in Albuquerque. If they don't want you to come back, this is a great design.

A well-experienced graphic artist understands that the process and end use of web development is very different from the process and end use of printed materials.

02/19/2026

THE PROBLEM WITH MULTIPLE TECHNOLOGIES.. that each add their own CSS.
vc_custom_1771457961827 {
margin-bottom: 0px !important;
padding-bottom: 25px !important;

This code is from a site with the following
1. Brixey theme - hasn't been updated since 2017
- has its own style sheet
- has a place to override its styles

2. WP Bakery plugin
- has its own place to override styles

Besides the development overhead, the load time overhead makes the site sluggish.

02/18/2026

AN UNEXPECTED HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR - YEAR OF THE HORSE.. from an unexpected chain of events

Last Fall, as I was searching through YouTube for programming tutorials in Spanish, the Great Algorithm decided I would like to see a video about the life of Chinese immigrant Tyrus Wong.

The Great Algorithm is very smart ... and very sneaky. And, yes, I watched the video. And, another one. And, another one.

The videos mentioned that Tyrus Wong had been a best selling Christmas card artist, so I looked him up. His cards are still available on Etsy. So, I ordered some.

When the cards came, I left a little note for the daughters. And, they promptly added me to their newsletter.

So, I now have this lovely photo expressing a Happy Chinese New Year with one of Tyrus Wong's famous caligraphy horses. And Kim Wong has given me permission to share it on social media.

02/16/2026

Small town newspapers help build an identity to the town. I believe that the CharKoosta News started out as a project of Salish Kootenai College, or possibly the website was a college project.
Anyone with further information?

Mural near Bear Tracks Bridge brings Salish history and language into Missoula landscape

02/14/2026

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