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Meet the author:
Jill Olkoski

Jill has a MA in Clinical Psychology, a BS in Computer Science, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering.

She currently owns Aldebaran Web Design in Edmonds (near Seattle WA) and enjoys educating her clients on topics related to small business website design.

In Jill's previous life, she spent 17 years in the engineering and quality organizations of a Fortune 100 tech company.

 


WordPress Installed in SubDirectory

August 23rd, 2015

Sometimes you install WordPress in subdirectory, as in when you are converting a person with a pre-existing website to a WordPress website. Generally to keep things clean, you install WordPress in a subdirectory, and then move the content into WordPress. When you’re finished, you now need to “launch” the new website, but have it appear that WordPress was installed into the root directory.

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How to redirect non-www to www in iPage Hosting

June 4th, 2012

Here’s what has worked for me:

RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^coolexample.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.coolexample.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Create .htaccess (text) file and put at root directory level.

Now if someone leaves out the “www”, it will be put in, which is good for search engines. They don’t like to find the non-www and the www version, they want one or the other.

Redirect index.php to domain

May 10th, 2012

For another improvement to your website’s SEO performance, try redirecting your home page (index.php, etc) to your domain.

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How to get an FTP password out of Dreamweaver

April 27th, 2012

You know when you type an FTP password into Dreamweaver, it turns it into little stars? Well what if for some reason, you need to know what that password is?

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How to Change the URL or Permalink of a WordPress Post

April 18th, 2012

I recently did some clean-up work on my robots.txt file, to stop Google from indexing all of the /feed/ and /trackback/ URL’s that are generated for each post. But I had trouble with two blog articles that started with the word “Feedburner”. I tried many variations for the robots.txt file, but the Google Webmaster kept saying those two were blocked. So I decided to change the URL’s of those two blog articles instead.

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How To Be Notified If Your Website Is Down via Email or Text Message

April 9th, 2012

This morning I woke up and checked my email via my iPhone. I noticed an email from my website traffic tracking company Web-Stat that my website was unavailable (meaning it was down). Normally when I get these messages, there is another one from Web-Stat saying the website was up again. Usually they are spread apart by 15 minutes or so. But this time, the original “your website is down message was an hour earlier, with no accompanying “your website is back up”. Something was wrong.

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How to redirect non-www to www in GoDaddy

March 15th, 2012

Here’s what has worked for me:

RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^coolexample.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.coolexample.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

 

Create .htaccess (text) file and put at root directory level.

Now if someone leaves out the “www”, it will be put in, which is good for search engines. They don’t like to find the non-www and the www version, they want one or the other.

Should You Upgrade Your ECT (ECommerce Templates) Online Store?

March 6th, 2012

My clients often ask me if and when they should upgrade their ECT or ECommerce Templates online stores. The ECT folks work quite hard to fix bugs and implement improvements and on average, will come out with a new version every month or two. So what’s a store owner to do?

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How To Tell That Your Online Ads Are Generating High Quality Traffic

December 3rd, 2011

I often have my small business website clients request images to be used in online advertising. Generally they place these ads on a website and are charged a monthly fee. When visitors click on the image, they are taken to my clients’ websites via a link. But how do my clients really know what kind of return on their advertising investment they are getting? My favorite website traffic tool is Web-Stat. This tutorial assumes you are using Web-Stat, but it should give you enough general information to help you regardless of the tool you’re using.

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How To Add Hosting To Your DreamHost Account After You’ve Registered Your Domain Name

July 28th, 2011

I have many clients who seem to get stuck at this point in the DreamHost set-up process, and it’s because, well, while I love DreamHost, they don’t make this easy or intuitive. So here’s my attempt at making it clear. This assumes you already have an account with DreamHost, and have registered a domain, but need to set up hosting.

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