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How to Turn an Excel Spreadsheet into a Mobile App
Many businesses rely on Excel spreadsheets to manage customers, inventory, inspections, service requests, estimates, schedules, and other important information. Excel is flexible, familiar, and easy to customize, which makes it an excellent tool for getting a new...
Should Your Business Build a Mobile App?
Mobile apps have become an important part of how many businesses serve customers, manage employees, process information, and deliver digital products. A well-designed mobile app can make it easier for customers to interact with a company, create new revenue...
The Importance of Version Control While Vibe Coding
My latest pet project at Code Team Blue was to build a math game natively in iOS using Xcode. I had never built anything in Xcode and had never written a single line of Swift. Step one was to find a solid YouTube video and dive in. The video I found was the first in a...
Publishing Mobile Apps to Google Play and Apple’s App Store
So you've been vibe coding away now for a few months, and you might have even picked up some actual programming skills in Kolton Or Swift. Everything seems to be working in the Emulators, now it’s time to make your new Mobile App ready for the people. What does it...
How AI Is Reshaping Mobile App Development in 2026
The software landscape is changing at a pace that we have never seen before, and it's all driven by AI. The first wave of change came about 2 years ago when ChatGBT started to sucessfully de-bug code, and write functions for you with just a few prompts. At first,...
Mobile App Review
After landing a big mobile app design project, we have been spending more time looking at this space and started to build out a few test projects that have been on the wish list for many years. As part of this new focus for our company, I decided to take a look at all...
What is Vibe Coding?
I had a decent idea of what "Vibe Coding" was from all the facebook ads I'v seee the past few months, but it was time to take a closer look and see what the AI's have to say about it. I started with Gemini, and it gave me a rambeling answer that seemed to be randomly...
Low-Code Mobile App Platforms: Base44, Bubble, Adalo and more.
Low-code and no-code mobile app platforms aren’t new. They’ve been around for years, cycling through waves of hype, skepticism, and quiet adoption. What has changed is how often they now come up in real client conversations. Budgets are tighter, timelines are shorter,...
Refactoring a Legacy Mobile App Without Breaking Everything
If your mobile app is getting slower, harder to update, or more fragile with every new feature, you’re not alone. Nearly every successful product eventually becomes a legacy mobile app — an app built years ago with outdated frameworks, old libraries, and code that no...
Progressive Web Apps vs Mobile Apps
If you want to access the deveice hardwared, mobile apps are now longer your only options. In this articlle Progressive Web Apps vs Mobile Apps, we will explorere the new optoins avalble for developers. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have emerged as a powerful middle...
Web Development
WordPress Page Builders Review for 2026
I have built or worked on somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 WordPress websites over the past 20 years, including client sites, pet projects, and prototypes. Time to review wordpress page builders 2026 Perhaps 50 of those were built before page builders became...
Web Development FAQ
Have questions about web development, hosting, or how we bring your digital projects to life? Welcome to Code Team Blue’s FAQ section, your go-to resource for clear, jargon-free explanations. Whether you’re curious about responsive design, the difference between...
Google Accounts for SEO
This is a quick guide to assist our clients in the setup and configuration of the Google Tools needed for SEO and Website Traffic Tracking. You will need to have a Gmail account and these tutorials assume you are signed into your browser with the proper Gmail account....
DIY Webmasters Tools
Learning Web Design, HTML, graphic design, and cloud based web design tools This article provided an overview of what it takes to learn how to build website with a focus on WordPress. It is not a compressive step by step guide. It’s more of list of all the tools and...
Web Design
WordPress Page Builders Review for 2026
I have built or worked on somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 WordPress websites over the past 20 years, including client sites, pet projects, and prototypes. Time to review wordpress page builders 2026 Perhaps 50 of those were built before page builders became...
Web Development FAQ
Have questions about web development, hosting, or how we bring your digital projects to life? Welcome to Code Team Blue’s FAQ section, your go-to resource for clear, jargon-free explanations. Whether you’re curious about responsive design, the difference between...
Google Accounts for SEO
This is a quick guide to assist our clients in the setup and configuration of the Google Tools needed for SEO and Website Traffic Tracking. You will need to have a Gmail account and these tutorials assume you are signed into your browser with the proper Gmail account....
DIY Webmasters Tools
Learning Web Design, HTML, graphic design, and cloud based web design tools This article provided an overview of what it takes to learn how to build website with a focus on WordPress. It is not a compressive step by step guide. It’s more of list of all the tools and...
WordPress
Why WordPress Websites Become Slow
WordPress websites rarely become slow for just one reason. In most cases, performance gradually declines as new plugins, images, scripts, tracking tools, page-builder features, and database records are added over time. A website that loaded quickly when it first...
When is WordPress the Wrong Choice?
WordPress is one of the most useful website platforms ever created. It powers everything from small business websites and personal blogs to major publishing platforms and online stores. We build, maintain, repair, and upgrade WordPress websites regularly at Code Team...
WordPress Page Builders Review for 2026
I have built or worked on somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 WordPress websites over the past 20 years, including client sites, pet projects, and prototypes. Time to review wordpress page builders 2026 Perhaps 50 of those were built before page builders became...
WordPress 7.0 Upgrade Overview
We have been in business for over 20 years now, and Code Team Blue has built, rebuilt, upgraded, repaired, and maintained enough WordPress websites to know that the upgrade process is not always something to look forward to. Yes, it is great to get new features,...
How to Configure Amazon Checkout for WooCommerce
We finally have a client that has an Amazon Account to suppliment her efforts to sell direclty to conumers via the Online WordPress Shopping Cart sysetm that is Woo. Most payment gateways are pretty easy to configure these days with the pre-existing funcitonalty in...
WordPress in the news 2025
Like most areas of technology these days, AI remains the dominant theme for WordPress in the news for 2025. GoDaddy is the latest to join the trend with its new “Airo Site Designer”, which can build a complete WordPress site from text prompts. Previous versions of...
Understanding WordPress Caching Engines
What are WordPress Caching Engines? Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data (such as web pages, images, or database queries) in a temporary storage area so it can be served faster the next time it’s requested. Instead of generating each page from...
Our Favorite WordPress Plugins
Our favorite WordPress Plugins are a must install on most of our website builds. Out of the box, WordPress is a solid starting point for a blog or business website. But what truly makes it the most popular web platform on the Internet is its massive library of...
How to build a custom WooCommerce template
How to Build a Custom WooCommerce Product Listing Page 1. Set up a Custom Template in Your Theme You need to override the default WooCommerce shop page template. Go to your theme folder:wp-content/themes/your-theme/ Create a folder called woocommerce inside your theme...
WooCommerce Address Validation
On a recent project a client asked us to setup address validation so that users cannot use PO Boxes. If you want to validate the shipping or billing address before account creation in WooCommerce, and block P.O. Boxes, the easiest way is with a code snippet or a...
