Who Do You Call?

July 17th, 2008

Not Ghost Busters. I hope… sheesh, now I can’t get this silly Ghost Busters song out of my head. Anyhow… let’s get back to the point. I’m feeling very curious of late and am dying to ask you.

How you handle technical issues within your business? Do you have a tech support person for your business? 

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By tech support I mean someone (or a team) who you call when your computer/network is not working.

Do you have a website support person (or team)? For example when your blog is giving errors, needs upgrading or when you have an idea but don’t know how to make it happen.

I imagine if you do, they’d most likely be different people or teams since these two areas require different expertise. There may be some overlap but when you need to get to the nitty gritty of things they are different.

Do you have a

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WordPress Does Not Like Special Characters

June 6th, 2008

In the years I’ve worked with WordPress for myself and clients, I’ve never had any issues with posting. Ok, so never say never. Let’s just say I rarely experience them. But one recent installation had so many issues I was rather surprised and a little miffed.

The client would get a Maximum execution time error every time they post. They had to try several times before it took. After checking out the obvious places and not finding the root of the problem, I turned my attention to the titles. There didn’t seem to be any special characters.

No crazy stuff, not even asterisks, exclamation marks, or brackets which should not be an issue anyway. But they did have ellipses (…) yet… how can that be a problem they are just three dots right?

Wrong! 

I deleted them and sure enough they were a block of three dots not three dots entered using the keyboard. In other words, instead of typing

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To SBI Or Not To SBI

May 30th, 2008

Let’s see what we have in our mail bag…

Ok, I need advice because I’m pulling my hair out here. I’ll just spill all the beans here.

FrustratedI’ve purchased SiteBuildit and I’m in a day 2 hell that’s lasting weeks - just in the brainstormit phase of building a master keyword list and viewing numbers on demand and profitability. Additionally, even if I just want a plain black background for my site, I’m an artist and want it to look great in the details, navigation buttons, images, etc., and most SBI sites
aren’t that “pretty”.

My concern is that SBI advertises that they get your presold warm market first by helping you achieve a “top 3%” status on the search engines… BUT I’m not a techie, (I know a lot less than you about websites!!) I’m an artist, and just day 2 feels like it’s killing me.

Knowing these things above, do you think xsitepro

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