• WebDesign

    Web site setup

    by  • January 14, 2012 • WebDesign • 0 Comments

    A friend recently asked if I would help him set up a website (I get that a lot). He is unable to participate in a traditional work environment, but has some wonderful knowledge and skills that he wants to share online, hopefully for profit. Here’s the email I sent him, which I thought you might [...]

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    All roads lead to…

    by  • January 11, 2012 • Uncategorized, WebDesign • 0 Comments

    Your web site. FWIW, IMHO, Caveate Emptor, YMMV, Objects may be closer than they appear, etc etc etc. I’ve been building web sites as an amature for over 14 years now. Being a new member here, I wanted to share some of my thoughts and observations about blogs and websites in general . Based on [...]

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    SEO, Lies and Video Tape (part 5)

    by  • December 28, 2011 • SEO, WebDesign • 0 Comments

    In the first first post of this series, I pointed out that SEO companies sell features that can be done easily by most people, thus avoiding cost. As a reminder, those 4 simple, easy-to-accomplish techniques are: Having a descriptive domain name Creating and submitting a sitemap Descriptive titles and meaningful content Getting other websites to [...]

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    SEO, Lies and Video Tape (part 4)

    by  • December 21, 2011 • SEO • 0 Comments

    In the first first post of this series, I pointed out that SEO companies sell features that can be done easily by most people, thus avoiding cost. As a reminder, those 4 simple, easy-to-accomplish techniques are: Having a descriptive domain name Creating and submitting a sitemap Descriptive titles and meaningful content Getting other websites to [...]

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    SEO, Lies and Video Tape (part 3)

    by  • December 14, 2011 • SEO, Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    In the first first post of this series, I pointed out that SEO companies sell features that can be done easily by most people, thus avoiding cost. As a reminder, those 4 simple, easy-to-accomplish techniques are: Having a descriptive domain name Creating and submitting a sitemap Descriptive titles and meaningful content Getting other websites to [...]

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    SEO, Lies and Video Tape (part 2)

    by  • December 7, 2011 • SEO • 0 Comments

    In my last post, I pointed out that SEO companies sell features that can be done easily by most people, thus avoiding cost. As a reminder, those 4 simple, easy-to-accomplish techniques are: Having a descriptive domain name Creating and submitting a sitemap Descriptive titles and meaningful content Getting other websites to link to you In [...]

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    SEO, Lies and Video Tape

    by  • November 30, 2011 • SEO • 0 Comments

    Search Engine Optimization (SEO) companies promise big money (for those using their services, naturally). They toss around figures about tens of millions of online searches every day that could be generating thousands of dollars in revenue, but only if your site ranks high enough on searches – only if you act now, no time to [...]

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    Fun with WordPress, Multisite and Permalinks

    by  • November 23, 2011 • WordPress • 0 Comments

    One of my customers alerted me to the fact that permalinks (such as the “recent posts” section on the sidebar) weren’t working on a sub-blog on their multisite installation. Instead they got a “Page not found” error. I did a quick bit of poking around and found that none of the permalinks on any of [...]

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    WordPress, WP-Ecommerce, and fatal memory errors

    by  • November 16, 2011 • WebDesign, WordPress • 0 Comments

    One of my clients runs a modest sales site… (cough! shamelessly promoting bathroomonkey.com! cough!) …and today was apparently upgraded Wednesday. Both WordPress (3.1.2) and WP-ecommerce (3.8.2) needed to be updated. Problem 1: The WordPress failed with “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of…”. I tried the php.ini trick (it had worked for me in the past [...]

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