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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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WordPress Version 2.6 is Here!

July 16th, 2008

WordPress 2.6 was just released and they’ve made a lovely little video, which I’ve embedded below to give you an overview of the new features. As always, it’s really important to keep your WordPress version up-to-date to make sure you have the latest and greatest hacking prevention prevention.

Here’s the video:

And if you’re lucky enough to have your blog hosted at DreamHost, you can even do this upgrade all by yourself by following the instructions in my article “How To Upgrade WordPress“. It doesn’t cost you a thing and is super easy to do.

Of course, if you’re a current client of mine and you want me to upgrade your blog, I’m happy to do it as well.

Happy blogging

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Taking Care Of Website Clients AFTER Their Websites Are Finished

July 14th, 2008

I received a phone call from a very frustrated prospective client the other day that I’d like to share with other people who might be thinking of starting their own website design businesses or shopping for a website designer. Here’s a tip: Hey all you web designers! Take care of your clients AFTER you finish their website design. Sound simple? Apparently not.

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SEO Basics from Google’s Matt Cutts

June 30th, 2008

This is a very short video on the basics of Search Engine Optimization from Matt Cutts, a very famous Google Engineer. Matt gives an brief overview of what’s important, and what’s not important. For those of you who know about SEO already, this won’t be new news, but for those of you who don’t know anything about SEO, it’s a nice introduction.

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Trademarks and Web Design

May 10th, 2008

I had a client recently ask me to add some logos from other companies to his website. The logos were from news organizations, and his intention was to use the logos as links to articles that those organizations had on their websites. This raised a question about proper use of trademarked symbols and so, like I usually do when I learn something new, I wrote this article about what I learned. Disclaimer, I’m not an attorney and this isn’t legal advice. It’s just a blog article. :-)

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For Mac Users: How To Convert Word docx

May 9th, 2008

Ok, so maybe this is unrelated to web design, but on several occasions clients and friends who are on a mac have received .docx files (2007 Microsoft Word) and have been unable to open them.

Now, don’t even get me started on why Microsoft would release a version of Word that is not backwards compatible…

But they did, and here’s a tool they are offering to help solve the issue:

Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac

Note this requires OS X 10.4

I’ve also tried out that docx-converter.wdgt, the one that adds a widget to your dashboard, but it doesn’t always work. The one above worked just fine for me.

Additionally, I noticed that I could upgrade my version of Word to 11.35 that would enable me to open these docx from Word - but when I tried to use the Microsoft updater, it wouldn’t work for some reason. So I’ll just stick with the XML File Format Converter to convert Word docx.

Enjoy!

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