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AARP Tax-Aide Continues Services With Donation From C2IT Consulting
Randy and Ruth Johnson have been serving the citizens of Hendricks County for a combined 17 years through their volunteer leadership of the AARP Tax-Aide Program. Each year more than 30 volunteers prep and train for months to provide free tax preparation services to...
Is a VPN Right For My Business?
As a business leader you are tasked with making decisions well beyond what you had ever envisioned. With the current COVID-19 situation many companies are debating whether or not going 100% remote is an appropriate response. To many people the decision may seem...
What To Expect and How To Prepare For Your First Development Job
I would like to share some of my experiences regarding my first six months of my first full time position as a software developer. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment for software developers is expected to increase by 28% from 2018 to 2028. Hearing...
Tell me what I want, what I really, really want
I sat down with the owner of a business a few weeks ago that had reached out to us about modernizing a software application he’d created almost 10 years ago. The system has been showing wear and tear for several years, and it was time to freshen it up. Once...
New Mobile App for the Parks Foundation of Hendricks County
The Parks Foundation of Hendricks County recently gave us the opportunity to take their WordPress site and creating a mobile app based off of it. While we've done several custom software and mobile app projects, this was our first adventure into a smaller scale mobile...
C2IT’s First Annual Cookie Decorating Contest
Last week we had our first annual cookie decorating competition during our holiday staff meeting. Popular shapes included snowmen and trees, which resulted in votes for a winning tree design and a winning snowman design. Winning SnowmanWinning Christmas TreeOur team...
Introducing the New C2IT Help Center
We’re pleased to announce the release of C2IT’s online Help Center. We use the back-end of this tool to process all tickets and support requests for our clients. This can include anything from a request to add a new user to your system to additional content you’d like...
Do I Need My Own App?
There are over 3 million apps in Apple’s App Store and over 2 ½ million in the Google Play Store. In contrast, there are over 1.5 BILLION websites in the world. That’s one app for every 2,000 websites, but the number is growing exponentially. Whether you’re looking...
C2IT at Gleaners
1 in 7 Hoosiers are hungry. The mission of Gleaner's Food Bank is to lead the fight against hunger. They do this by distributing food to hungry Hoosiers through a network of over 250 partner agencies in 21 counties, including emergency food pantries, soup kitchens and...
C2IT’s Annual Pumpkin Painting Contest
Our annual internal pumpkin painting contest showed improvement in skill and creativity from last year's inaugural event. With new participants this year, the question was whether last year's reigning champ would be over thrown. Winner 2018 This year's contest...
Why All the Wi-Fi?
Tap the Wi-Fi button on your phone or the icon on your computer. What do you see? Unless you live in a rather rural area, you’re likely to see a slew of available wireless hotspots. Some you know, others you don’t. Some are tied to familiar locations you frequent and...
When Cutting Edge Becomes Out-Of-Date
My team is in the business of building customized technology solutions for the clients we serve. This means that every project we embark upon has something new to be discovered. No matter how similar one project may appear to be to another, they are always these...
New Resources Library Now Available
C2IT offers a variety of tools for use on your website; from theme templates to plugins, we work with a multitude of resources that will help take your website to the next level. Recently, we added two sections to our website that detail what some of these resources...
Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO is the plugin C2IT uses to help with your company's search engine optimization. It will bump your company's website up in the search results of Google and Bing. This plugin allows you to enter keywords or keyphrases you’d like your post or page to rank for...
C2IT’s Designer Completes UX Design Certification
At C2IT, we encourage our employees to continually learn and set goals for themselves. Recently, our in house designer decided to start a certification for User Experience (UX) Design. While Megan has had some background in the world of UX/UI design, she wanted to...
Who Shut Off The Internet?
We have a routine at home when tablets start running slowly or the TV glitches out. Someone inevitably hollers out, “Can someone restart the Internet?” This is the sign for someone (normally dad) to crawl under the stairs, fumble around with all the electronics, and...
WooCommerce – The Easy to Use E-Commerce Platform
If you have items you want to sell on your website, WooCommerce is the plugin for you. WooCommerce is built for WordPress and integrates seamlessly with Divi, the theme C2IT uses for its websites. With over 400 extensions, we can customize your store to suit your...
Divi – The Versatile WordPress Template
The Most Popular WordPress Theme In The World And The Ultimate WordPress Page Builder. Divi isn't just a theme, and it isn't just a framework. It's a community of hundreds of thousands of designers and developers filled with amazing third party extensions, child...
Burning Bridges
Over the past two months, I have written about firing and hiring your IT Guy. Whether your business has an on-staff IT department or simply calls a friend when there’s a technology problem, you know who I’m talking about when I refer to “the IT Guy.” We depend on the...
How to Hire Your IT Guy
Last month I titled my column “How to Fire your IT Guy.” It was a catchy title I had on my mind for awhile. The world of technology consulting and IT support offers an almost endless variety of options to outsource your technology needs from the one-man-band to...
How to Fire Your IT Guy
“How to Fire your IT Guy” - sounds like a catchy title to me. It also sounds a little self-serving, since I’m the owner of an IT business that’s always searching for new clients. The truth is, my business has been “fired” before. It’s only happened a couple times, but...
Practice Makes Perfect… or at Least Prepared
My 7th grade son came home a few days ago and told my wife and I that they’d had a drill at school to prepare for an active shooter situation. The school had done a great job of notifying parents in advance that this drill was going to take place, so we weren’t caught...
REDUNDANCY – Finding Balance in Spare Parts
Two weeks ago a client called us with more than a hint of panic in his voice. “Everything is down. The only thing on the server is a message stating that hard drives have failed.” As you’d expect, he wanted us to come out right away. When our technician arrived on...
How Safe is the Cloud?
Backing up our critical files and email is something we’d all agree is important, but we often treat it like flossing our teeth. We know we should do it daily but it’s all too easy to take shortcuts or push it back until the next checkup. You never know when you’re...