Websmitten web design

So I had a baby and didn’t get my mac yet. Still dreaming and scheming. Looking at some good Mac software… http://www.panic.com/coda/
http://www.panic.com/transmit/

It’s that time again. I bought a new laptop for my business when my home-made desktop died in 2004. It was in the middle of a project, so I needed a new computer immediately. I went to Costco and bought an HP Pavilion dv4000 – which I have been very happy with. It was a [...]

I use a plug in called reCAPTCHA on several of my WordPress sites. It’s a little program that shows you a picture of a combination of letters for you to type in that prove you are human and not a spammer. I figured CAPTCHA stood for something about character recognition, but I was curious why [...]

I have been using the Kimili Flash Embed plug in for WordPress, and, of course, I’m always doing something a little out of the ordinary that’s not working. Recently, I’ve been trying to post movies. I’ll import the movie into FLASH which turns it into an FLV file. Then I add a skin and publish [...]

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Found a great site today that explains how to build your own WordPress template. It’s also good for referencing which PHP pages are being utilized on different parts of your WordPress site: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/building-custom-wordpress-theme/

Yay! Finally, after all these weeks, ImpactsAlaska.com is indexed! Apparently, it really does just take 6 to 8 weeks for Googlebot to come back around and re-index you. Posting at http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters was definitely the key to finding out what was going on. I actually got a real, live Google employee answering one of my posts. [...]

Another art show/contest has been launched from Orbs of Happiness. We designed a postcard-type flyer this time:
Here’s what the front looks like. This was done in photoshop with a photo of my daughter Eliza playing with watercolors. We put more details on the back. More info at http://www.orbsofhappiness.org

Wow, more and more folks are creating wonderful WordPress Templates – that are easy to customize, too! We just re-did the look of St. Andrews Lutheran website and it only took 2 hours to get it looking like we wanted. It was already a WordPress site – all we had to do was upload the [...]

I’m still working on ImpactsAlaska.com to get that Google listing back. Found a great video from Google about how to interpret the ‘bounce rate’ of a site. Basically, the bounce rate is the rate at which people come to your site and leave immediately, for whatever reason. A typical site’s bounce rate ranges from 40%-60%. [...]