Posts by Kelly Welsh:
Tech Support Tip
March 26th, 2007When you have to contact your hosting tech support always try to stick to one topic. Even if there are a few different issues only address one item per support request and try to keep it short. If you do address more than one item you will only get an answer to the easiest issue you presented to them.
Todays tech support isn’t what it used to be. Years ago you actually had your request looked at by someone who was knowledgeable about the internet, computers, servers, operating systems and the like. Today it is someone with minimal knowldge who is trained to scan through your request quickly, pick up a few key words and type them into the companies answer database (knowledgebase). You could do the same thing yourself on Google. So keep it simple and short, the more words you use the more of a chance your point will get lost in the message. They are trained to give quick turn-arounds not detailed or accurate ones.
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RSS Feed Syndication
March 18th, 2007Putting RSS Feeds into your site can increase your exposure dramatically. There are many news services now that constantly scan the internet for these files to gather interesting articles and other information. Technorati and Digg are 2 good examples of these services.
This new (well, not so new) format allows people to bookmark your articles and/or information in a more organized and easy to read way. You can get stand-alone readers, browser integrated readers or now you can add these “feeds” to your own favorite online reader service and Homepages like Google, Yahoo and MSN. There are 2 basic types of feeds- RSS and Atom, but which ever you choose to use make sure you follow the technical guidelines to get the most out of it. Always use valid markup for these files just like you would for a regular html or php page. The W3C offers a validator for RSS Feeds.
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McAfee SiteAdvisor Slams CoffeeCup Software
October 22nd, 2006McAfee SiteAdvisor Blacklists Reputable Software Company.
Coffeecup Software is a reputable web design software company with an impeccible reputation and a history of complaince with spam rules. They do not manufacture software with adware, spyware or any other known malicious files, so why is McAfee SiteAdvisor saying they do? I was directed to the site by a friend who had received a warning from their McAfee Anti-Virus software that Coffeecup.com is a known threat. In fact there are probably millions of internet users receiving the same warnings.
SiteAdvisor.com is a website run by McAfee, a long time Anti-Virus software company and Nortons biggest competitor. They have set up a website and sytem to warn users of potentially threatening sites through their Anti-Virus software. Now something has gone horribly wrong and someone has found a loophole in the system and used it to their advantage to inflict damage on innocent companies.
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Language Translator installed
October 21st, 2006I have just finished installing the site translator plug-in from Simple Thoughts http://blog.taragana.com/ Now this site can be read in 9 different languages. To translate the page simply click on the flag that represents your country. I had recently noticed that this site gets alot of traffic from all over the world and wondered if people from far away places could actually read the information here. I didnt want the information here to be exclusive to one language so I found this great plugin. I am sure the resources here are valuable and applicable globally so I hope this will be helpful to everyone. For anyone else who has a Blog and posts information you really should get this plugin and stop leaving out a good portion of your visitors. Enjoy.
Kelly Welsh
Webmaster
Web Standards, Browsers and Designing for the future
October 12th, 2006At present, a vast majority of webmasters are designing for IE (Internet Explorer) 6, which is not as W3C standards compliant as is FireFox, Netscape, Safari and Opera.
In my article – “The importance of sound website design & search spiders to Internet Marketers,” I mentioned the importance of a designer being cognizant of the fact that web browser standards are not yet fully harmonized – a web page that looks great in Internet Explorer (6) might look hideous in a Mozilla based browser like FireFox or Netscape.
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