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Jill Olkoski has a BS in Engineering, a BS in Computer Science and an MA in Clinical Psychology. She delights in using her advanced technical and psychological skills to help small business owners develop cost-effective and successful websites.
Tidbits, Tutorials

WordPress Installed in SubDirectory

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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Spam Watch

Hearing Impaired Website Design for New Company and Wants to Pay With Credit Card

I have received no less than four text messages, all sent from a different phone number, with a similar message. An alleged “hearing impaired person” wants to know if I can “handle website design for a new company” and wants to know if I “accept credit cards as form of payment”. After the first two texts, I replied no, and please stop texting me. Now I’ve received an email with the subject “Web Design Is Needed” and the message is:

Hello I am Micheal Jay and i am hearing impaired i need know if you can handle website design for a new company and i also need to know if you accept credit cards as form of payment ?

The email I received today was from
[email protected] and sent from a hotmail account, IP
65.55.90.71

This has all the markers of some kind of scam targeting web designers.

Here are links to similar reports:

http://wolfcreektechnology.com/post/Scam-Targets-Web-Designers

http://blog.ihenix.com/nearly-got-scammed/

Blogs

How To Get a New Akismet Key When Yours Is Deactivated (Akismet Error Code 10003)

If you login to your WordPress Dashboard and see that Akismet is giving you an error message regarding a deactivated key, or if your blog is suddenly getting more spam than usual, you might need to get a new Akismet key.

You may also see this error:

Akismet Error Code: 10003

Howdy! It looks like you have an Akismet Personal subscription, which does not appear to be appropriate for your current usage. In order to continue using Akismet in this way, you will need to upgrade your subscription to one of our Enterprise or High Volume plans.

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SEO and PPC

Apache Redirects to WWW and without WWW version of website

It’s good for search engines, like Google, to only have one version of your website indexed. To Google, the www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com are not the same. You can use this code on Apache servers inside a .htaccess file. It’s worked for me on several different hosting companies.

To redirect to without www version:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

 

To redirect to the www version:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Tidbits

How to Monitor Your Dog At Home Using Facetime, an iPhone, and a MacBook Laptop

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My beloved dog has some health issues that has required me to monitor her around the clock. As she’s improved I’ve been contemplating how to again regain my freedom and be able to leave the house for short periods of time. But I wanted to know that she was safe in her enclosure and not in distress. I figured out how to use FaceTime and call my MacBook laptop with my iPhone and to see what she was doing.

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eBooks

How To Add Table of Contents in Word for Mac 2011 for publishing in Kindle

If you’re on a Mac, running Word 2011, and you want to publish a book on Kindle, it is really hard to find a good tutorial on how to create a table of contents. Many of the tutorials are for Word for PC, which actually has a critical feature missing, that makes it much more tedious to do on a Mac. So here are the steps I used, in the hope that it helps another person to do the same thing.

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