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Woo-hoo! My Flash app on the front page of APU

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Alaska Pacific University went live with their new website and my flash accordion file is on their front page! Very cool. Sundog Media designed it but needed a flash contractor (me) to create it for them – check it out at http://www.alaskapacific.edu!


Making money with your blog

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

I’ve had some folks ask me how on earth people make money with their blogs. I haven’t actually had an interest in doing this, but I did find a set of articles on it from someone who is successfully doing it. The articles aren’t exactly easy to find, which is why I’m linking them all [...]


Websmitten Google Business Listing

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

The Google Business Listing change was almost immediate as well. Here it is – http://tinyurl.com/websmitten-google-listing.

And here is Christie’s new listing: http://www.google.com/search?q=impacts+alaska. At least for right now it is the top listing when you search for impacts alaska. To go directly to her listing, you can use the following link: http://tinyurl.com/impactsalaska-google-listing.


Edit a listing on Google Maps

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Another thing I’ve learned with Christie’s site is how to edit your Google maps listing. In her case, the wrong address was displayed. She wanted to know how to correct that. After a bit of online sleuthing, I found that question had been answered on Google Help. To add a new listing or correct a [...]


How long will it take to re-index on Google?

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

So, no listing yet for impactsalaska.com yet. From the Google Discussion group I’m hearing that it “could be tomorrow or it could be next month… it’s based on factors none of us are privy to…” Argh. The maddening thing here is not being sure that we’ve hit every problem. I really think we have, but [...]


Google indexing

Monday, December 8th, 2008

I’m learning a lot with a new site I’m working on – http://www.impactsalaska.com. Christie had designed a static site and was used to typing “impactsalaska.com” into her Google search bar to get to her site. I have found this is not an uncommon practice. Anyway, after I converted her to a WordPress site, mysteriously the [...]


VCFM.net done

Friday, October 10th, 2008

http://www.VCFM.net is complete. Naturally, there are a few tweaks we’ll be working on here and there as we go, but otherwise complete. This is a WordPress site on steroids. We are using 13 add-ons and several custom page templates. Some of it’s neat features include: the flash map under Program, Graduates that draws its information [...]


Wordpress “left align” Image Glitch

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

I’ve seen this problem before when you have several tall images all aligned to the left. What is happening is the images are so tall they just keep trying to stay left aligned until they don’t fit across the page anymore (it’s part of the coding in the design that filters the way your site [...]


Maps

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

So I’m working on my new site – www.vcfmrp.net – and we want to display graduate data on a map. Sounds simple enough. Where do I turn first? Well, google maps, of course. I figure, real estate websites use them all the time to display houses for sale. How hard could it be?
I fiddle and [...]


Converted to WordPress

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

My website – www. websmitten.com – is now powered by WordPress. I’ll let you know how it goes. Let me know what you think by using the comments link if you have any opinions on how the site looks or if you notice any problems. Thanks!