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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 and Internet Explorer IE 9 Incompatibility – Unable To Modify Posts

June 23rd, 2011

Today one of my WordPress clients couldn’t modify any of her posts. She was using a computer with IE 9. I was on my computer using Firefox, and could modify her posts with no problem. A quick search on Google yielded others with the identical issue. For this client, all I could recommend was to switch Firefox, which she did and verified problem solved. You can view the identical issue reported here on the WordPress.com forum.

Solution found to – If Upgrading to WordPress 3.1 Results in 404 Pages Not Found

April 25th, 2011

I had a client today upgrade her WordPress blog to 3.1.1 and when she clicked on any categories or posts, she got a 404 page not found error. Took a while of searching on the web but solution was found. Solution required regeneration of brand new .htaccess file and deletion of one plugin. Details are below.

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Setting Up Outlook To Read GoDaddy Email

April 20th, 2011

Here is information from GoDaddy on how to set up Outlook to read your GoDaddy based email:

Using Microsoft Outlook 2003 with Your Email

Using Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Your Email

Using Outlook 2010 with Your Email

Using Microsoft Outlook Express with Your Email

GoDaddy Product and Technical Support: (480) 505-8877

How To Read GoDaddy Webmail Email

April 20th, 2011

If your website hosting company is GoDaddy, you can go here to read your email:

https://login.secureserver.net

How To Disable All WordPress Plugins – Even if you can’t login to the dashboard

March 25th, 2011

This is a great article on how to disable WordPress plugins if you are unable to access the dashboard:

Quickly Disable or Enable All WordPress Plugins via the Database

DreamHost Outage

March 14th, 2011

DreamHost had a bad day today. Please note this is the best place to check status if your website is down, and you can’t login to your control panel:

http://status.dreamhost.com/

If things are really bad, even that URL might be down, and it’s best to check Twitter.com and search for @dhstatus, you can do this here: http://search.twitter.com/

I should note that I’ve been with DreamHost since 2006, and outages like these are not a typical experience. If you have a business that can’t tolerate its website being down for several hours, you should probably not have your website hosted with a shared hosting company (and be paying way, way more than the $10/month that DreamHost charges).

For my own business and the small businesses I work with, we can tolerate some downtime occasionally, and so for us DreamHost is a great choice for inexpensive hosting. I advise my clients to first try to notify DreamHost if they have an issue, if they can’t login, check the status.dreamhost.com website to see if there is a systemic issue.

But please don’t panic. After watching the very scary news from Japan, it really puts issues like having a website being down for a few hours into perspective.

How to Clone a Product using the ECT (ECommerce Templates) Online Store

February 21st, 2011

I’ve had several clients ask me this, and it’s difficult to find this answer online, so I’m posting it here in my blog.

To clone a product in the ECT store:

1. Login to your store’s control panel

2. Click on Product Admin

3. Locate the product you’d like to clone.

4. Hold down the “CTRL” key (or “alt option” if you’re on a Mac) while clicking Modify.

5. Notice at the top of the page it says “You are cloning the product “Your Product Name Here”.

Use this feature to quickly make new products that are very similar to each other to save yourself time.

How To Add A Category To A WordPress Blog

November 5th, 2010

The following video tutorial illustrates how to add a category to your WordPress blog. This tutorial assumes you know how to login to your WordPress Dashboard.

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Adding WebYep to Tables to Create Repeating Rows

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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PayPal Has Auto Sweep!

January 13th, 2010

I learned of a new feature in PayPal today by complete accident. I normally login and move money from my PayPal business account to my business checking account. A few days ago, I forgot I logged in, and this morning noticed funds had moved out. When I called PayPal, they confirmed that indeed it was me (embarrassing), but they told me that PayPal has an auto-sweep feature that would do this. They enabled it on my account so it shows up under the Financial section of my Profile. I never knew PayPal had this ability, and wanted to share my belated discovery!

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