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 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.
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April 27th, 2010
This is a solution that I use often, and wanted to capture it here in my blog in the event that the Web Yep form is down.
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April 26th, 2010
Every morning I sit down in front of my computer and go through my email inbox. The first thing I do is remove all the spam that’s come in overnight. It used to just annoy me, but now I’ve discovered a way to get revenge, and hopefully annoy the spammers in the process.
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April 26th, 2010
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February 16th, 2010
Sometimes clients see things in a certain way in their browsers that I’m unable to see. Often the fastest way to clear up the confusion, is for them to send me a screenshot. Send a screenshot of something on the web is easy to do once you know the steps.
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February 11th, 2010

I often have people contact me who are in various stages of breaking up with their current web designers. Sometimes the termination is friendly, sometimes it’s not. Here’s what you should know BEFORE you attempt to fire, or otherwise end your working relationship with your web designer.
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February 1st, 2010
Many of my readers may be familiar with a very popular article I wrote in May of 2008 about the then new Washington State Destination Based Sales Tax. Today I received news from one of my readers that alerted me to a new development: SB5113.
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January 13th, 2010
A client of mine just received a cold call from a Washington SEO company, who offered a free website review to see if his website “would be negatively impacted by an upcoming Google Platform Change”. Scary huh?
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January 13th, 2010
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December 14th, 2009
Whenever one of my clients has a good or bad experience with a website marketing company, I make sure to post these experience here in my blog. A client notified me of problems with a company I had never heard of before, “zipweb.com”.
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December 7th, 2009
All of us hate spam, those unsolicited emails we get from individuals or businesses who want something from us. But if you get spam from someone who is using a professional service, like MyEmma or Constant Contact, there’s something you can do about it.
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December 7th, 2009
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December 1st, 2009
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November 30th, 2009
One of my clients recently received several email scam messages that she wanted me to pass along. These email scam messages were a little different from the ones that I usually receive, in that they specifically mentioned products and services that she offered. In other words, they were a little harder to recognize as scams than other generic email spam.
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November 30th, 2009
Recently my life has been full of redirects. I have a client who had another web developer change her website pages from one naming convention to another, like “?p=123″ to “how to file dog fingernails”. I had another client that I did the redesign for, but her old page names had blank spaces in them, like “old page.html”. Both of these situations required creation of special files called “.htaccess” that map the old pages to the new ones. I wanted to give folks an overview of why creating redirects every single time they change a page name/page URL is so important to SEO (search engine optimization).
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November 23rd, 2009
It seems like all my blog article ideas lately come from my clients, so here’s another one. A client got an invitation to try out DreamHost PS (Private Servers) and wanted to know whether he should sign up.
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November 16th, 2009
A client sent me a link to this article on Slate.com that gave a fairly scathing review of one of the common open source content management applications called Drupal. While I’ve never used Drupal, after reading this article, I don’t think I ever will.
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November 13th, 2009

For the past month or so, I’ve been able to use live chat to communicate with the folks at DreamHost.com, my web hosting company. While their support ticket system has been excellent, they’ve now improved their support system by adding a live chat feature for some of their customers. I’ve used it several times, and didn’t want to write about it until they officially announced it – and today, they did!
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November 9th, 2009
One of my clients asked me how she could embed a PDF document into her WordPress blog today. After some searching, I found the answer and wanted to document it here so that my other clients and blog readers can learn how to do this.
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October 30th, 2009
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