Bye bye snap preview anywhere January 31, 2007
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Took it off today, also took it off my main website…
Katydids One Year Website Anniversary January 26, 2007
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Our first customer has officially been on the internet for one year. Congratulations Katie! www.katydidshomedecor.com offers visitors a glimpse of the beautiful products sold at the store in Waukesha. We regularly update the photos on the site to reflect the changing seasons at Katydids, and also send out regular email mailings to her mailing list.
This website is a fine example of good search engine rankings. For example, Katydids sells Casafina dishes. Want to find who sells these dishes in Waukesha? Try google. Or, looking for Root Candles in Waukesha? Try google again. As you can see, Katydid’s website is enjoying excellent google placement.
When I design a website, I make a number of key design decisions to help increase search rankings. I cannot guarantee results, but I will make every effort!
Amy Lyn`s Chocolates in Waukesha January 23, 2007
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I haven’t mentioned this site yet, but it’s coming along nicely. I recently stopped in to take pictures of their Valentine’s items for the site. I created a separate page for Valentine’s day, and also put up a countdown to the big day! We discussed an email mailing list and they’re going to try it out. Hopefully we’ll start getting some subscribers. They will be sending out monthly specials.
All 3 new sites now indexed on google January 18, 2007
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Don’t know why Kathleen Gehl was so slow to get in, but now all 3 are indexed! Yahoo!
Snap Preview Anywhere January 17, 2007
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Is now working on the blog… wordpress rolled this out for everyone hosting blogs at wordpresss.com… hover your mouse over a link to see a preview of the website before going to it… pretty cool, if you like that sort of thing… pretty annoying if you don’t!
I installed it on my main site as well.
stdin: is not a tty January 14, 2007
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Do you do scp in a shell script and get the annoying “stdin: is not a tty” message? It’s particularly annoying if you want the scp to run in the background and you get your command prompt back and then a few seconds later see the stdin: is not a tty message on your terminal!
The quick solution is to go into the .bashrc on the shell where you’re secure copy (ing) to, and add this at the top:
if [ $(expr index "$-" i) -eq 0 ]; then
return
fi
BTW, here is the script I use to easily resize and transfer images to a remote server:
ACCOUNT=accountnamehere
NEWSIZE=$1
FILENAME=$2
RESIZEDFILENAME=resized.$FILENAME
`convert -resize ${NEWSIZE}x${NEWSIZE} $FILENAME /tmp/$RESIZEDFILENAME;scp /tmp/$RESIZEDFILENAME $ACCOUNT@yourhostname.com:~/imageuploaddir/$FILENAME;rm /tmp/$RESIZEDFILENAME` &
Note how the resize and scp commands are treated as a single unit that is put in the background so we can have our command prompt back immediately.
msn and yahoo have indexed kathleengehl.com… January 10, 2007
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and from the website stats, I see google.com visited on Jan 7… just waiting now for the indexes to get updated…
See for yourself 
and hopefully soon, this will work: google
Further, each website is now registered with a google account, and I did the upload of the special file to prove that I’m the owner of the website. This will allow me a bit more insight into google’s crawl…
Great News, 2 of my new customer sites have hit google! January 6, 2007
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josiecusma.com and judyeager.com are now listed .just waiting for kathleengehl.com …
