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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When Cutting Edge Becomes Out-Of-Date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...
Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery – Which are you preparing for?
As we enter a new year, many business owners do their best to step back and look at their business from the high level perspective that gets lost amongst the weeds of day to day operations throughout the year. One of the areas of technology that many businesses will...
Page Not Found – Friendly Error Pages and Missed Opportunities
My business has just moved across town to a new space that better suits our team’s work environment. One of the first things we did after moving was to get our mail forwarded. As part of that process, we’re building a growing list of everyone we need to communicate...
C2IT Consulting, Inc. opens new office to make room for growing team
C2IT Consulting, Inc., a full-service technology firm specializing in strategic IT management, mobile apps, and web development, announced that they are establishing a new office in Plainfield. C2IT makes this move during a continued period of strong growth as they...
Office 365 Email Server Settings
We’ve helped many businesses migrate from simple email systems to Microsoft Office 365. The migration process itself can be a challenging and time-intensive process, but once users are on the new system, it’s rather simple to set up email clients such as Microsoft...
Trends in Tech – Cloud-Based Team File Storage
Last year I wrote about how small businesses have been moving email systems to the cloud at an amazing rate. Expensive and redundant email servers are being tossed into recycle bins as systems like Microsoft Office 365 and Google Suite help businesses minimize their...
Life in our new office… Day 2
Well, we've made it through day #2. Things are starting to run smooth, and I've discovered that it's rather nice to have a door you can shut while you're on a phone call with clients and other conversations are happening throughout the building. We brought on a new...
Life in our new office… Day 1
Today was C2IT’s first day in our new office on Clark’s Creek Road in Plainfield. One of my employees commented, “this must be a pretty big thing for you,” and he’s spot on. We’ve been in business for almost 15 years now and in all that time, I’ve never had my own...
Moving Technology – Lessons Learned
We haven’t told many people yet, but we’re preparing to move our business to a new office space soon. It’s been just a short time since our last move, and as I look back, we’ve done a lot of moving over the past 7 years as our business has grown. The move we are...
Small Business Technology – “I Did It My Way”
Early this morning I talked shop with one our clients at our local gym. We’ve had a project on tap for several months and it’s been tabled here and negotiated there, but now it’s GO time… they’d like the job done yesterday, and they’d like to do some of the work...
Custom Software Development – Invent Your Own Wheel
Raise your hand if you’ve had a great app idea that no one’s thought of yet. Is there anyone among us who hasn’t hit our head on a wall trying to find ways to make technology work the way we want it to? If you’re like most, you’ve reached that point and said “fine…...