July 23rd, 2012
I read today that Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died at the age of 61. I was in college at the University of Florida when she blasted off in June of 1983 and decided to drive down to Cape Canaveral to see the launch.
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July 11th, 2012
Once upon a time, DreamHost (my hosting company) offered Live Chat for it’s VPS (Virtual Private Server) clients. Then it expanded to all clients. Then it disappeared. I wondered, is it ever coming back?
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June 19th, 2012
Based on personal experience, I’ve found it very hard to find a therapist with a website when I started looking at names from an insurance provider list. So I wondered, just how many therapists have websites of their own?
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June 14th, 2012
When you are changing hosting companies, you often need to preview the website on the new hosting company while you are building the website. But how is this done? Different hosting companies have different methods to accomplish this preview. This little tidbit is a hard to find one and required a phone call to GoDaddy.
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May 2nd, 2012
How to redirect non-www to www in BlueHost Hosting to try and improve your SEO performance. You need to do this in an .htaccess file.
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April 15th, 2012
Last night I was watching reruns of Star Trek, the Next Generation (the one with Patrick Stewart). The episode was the one where “Scotty” from the original series put himself into a transporter loop for 75 years and was rescued. When he visited the bar (10 Forward) he didn’t like the taste of the fake whiskey, and so Data (the android character) offered him some real whiskey – Aldebaran Whiskey!
It was the first time I’d noticed them mention the word Aldebaran in Star Trek. I was delighted. For those of you who wonder what Aldebaran is, read this. I know, I’m a nerd. It was still a cool moment.
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April 13th, 2012
Very frequently I received emails and phone calls from small business owners who have websites that are in need of maintenance. Because I’m curious, I often ask them why the person who did their original web design can’t do the updates.
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April 9th, 2012
Hey folks who read my blog – if you wouldn’t mind – please give my chat capability a try. I have 15 days to decide if I want to keep using it, and would appreciate any feedback from your end on what you think, how it works, changes, etc.
I’ve put it on my home page, my cost page, my contact pages and my portfolio pages. Give it a try, help me learn before “real” clients use it 🙂
UPDATE: It was a total miserable failure and I disabled it.
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April 9th, 2012
Every once in a while, I am reminded why I love doing small business web design for a living. I had one of these moments a few months ago.
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April 6th, 2012
What happens when a small business that has a website switches ownership? Depending on how the domain registration and hosting are set up…and the relationship with the web developer, all types of things can happen.
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