A lovely and uplifting one minute video tribute to Robin Williams. This is how I would like to remember Robin Williams.
Pitfalls of Working with Humans
“All things are difficult before they are easy. “ Thomas Fuller I am not a person who writes anything personal on the web. I have always kept all my articles and contributions online as part of my business related work. Anyone who has worked with me or knows me, knows I go above the call of duty. I love helping people. I enjoy teaching and empowering people online. Recently I have hit the over 200 client mark and I guess what happens is called growing pains. The little personal website company has to start tightening up a bit and being a bit more picky with the work and not letting themselves get taken advantage of. I guess sometimes the cosmos send you a message. I had a new customer referred to me by someone in one of my training classes. This person who asked me to redo a site for them, and move it over to new hosting. They were in a hurry and they already had a blogging website up and running. They had some other work online they do on a regular basis as well. This is more online experience then most people I work with. I thought […]
Web Terms and Definitions Quick Guide
Web Terminology, Web Terms and Quick Glossary Web Terms and terminology can be confusing. Often when I work with people, they tell me they do not understand the web terms that I am talking about. This led me the realization that I needed to start building an online web terminology and definitions everyman type of dictionary that was easy to understand. When I looked at the other online dictionary websites offering web Terms and definitions , I still found many of their definitions hard to understand. So this the start of my dictionary, which is going to be part of my WordPress Paid Support membership website. I am building this now and launching in February 2013. Here a few of the most common Web Terms and Definitions which I am frequently asked about. Web Hosting In a general sense, “hosting” refers to “web site hosting” which is the business of providing the equipment and services required to display Web sites. The business of hosting also involves maintaining files and providing fast Internet connections. If you run a Web site or do business on the Web, you have a host and you know the importance of having a good, reliable host. Hosting is very affordable nowadays; […]
Did your web design company or person leave you hanging?
I often get new business from very frustrated website owners who have basically been abandoned by the person or company they hired to help then with their website. Sometimes their websites are half finished on a test site and the person seems to have mysteriously disappeared or stopped answering their phone. Other larger companies who offer website design, farm out the work, and slap the site up, but give no help or direction to the poor website owner. Often the reason for this is they are not actually doing the work themselves. I recently had a client who came to me with that very situation. Their website was up, but it had no keywords, tags, or any kind of the most basic SEO done. The client was more than willing to do it themselves, but the company insisted she needed to pay their “SEO dept”, once again most likely contracted out, or farmed out for the help. I have always cautioned clients about paying for SEO services. It is an area full of people who failed at other get rich quick schemes. Remember a few years ago when you would get all those invites in the mail for “free […]
What is a gravatar, and how do I get one?
Many people ask me how to get a gravatar, or really they ask me this, ” How do I get one of those photos that will show up next to my name on other websites”? Many people do not even know what a gravatar is. A gravatar is an image you select , that is attached to whichever email you select, when you sign up for a gravatar here. http://en.gravatar.com/. This image to the left of me is a gravatar I custom created. I was just using my headshot, but I noticed many places I left a gravatar, left no way of knowing who I was or where I could found. I took one of my images and just added my business name on top there, and now I use this as one of my gravatars. Another nice thing with gravatars are you can have multiple emails and images attached to each email, so you do not have to have the same image all the time. What do you use a gravatar for? Well if you are online much, you problally have a business, a book, a product or just yourself that you would like to promote or have known […]