Merchant Moms Tutorial, adding web links page
Will I be able to update my site myself? Yes! This is one of the many questions that clients are most concerned with when they ask me for a web design quote. This is why I suggest the Merchant Moms shopping cart. I highly recommend this cart for the ease of it for first time users and also the affordability.
I am going to do a series of tutorial videos that demonstrates how easy it is to use this cart and also walk you through some of the features. This video will deal specifically with creating a web links page for link exchanges.
Merchant Moms Tutorial, editing pages
Will I be able to update my site myself? Yes! This is one of the many questions that clients are most concerned with when they ask me for a web design quote. This is why I suggest the Merchant Moms shopping cart. I highly recommend this cart for the ease of it for first time users and also the affordability.
I am going to do a series of tutorial videos that demonstrates how easy it is to use this cart and also walk you through some of the features. This is my first video tutorial and I hope to present future videos in higher quality. Please excuse the video quality in this version.
Back from vacation
I am officially back from vacation and spending this lovely Monday catching up on all my work. Ever feel like you need a vacation from your vacation? Fortunately when we arrived home we found that the weather in Minnesota was far nicer than that in Nevada, go figure. Yes, we were there for the SNOW IN LAS VEGAS!
My husband and I spent the week in Las Vegas, neither of us had been there before. Wowee, there is a lot to see! If you like to sight see its a great place to visit. We both loved the visual aspects of Vegas, the lights, the architecture, just everything. My husband has just picked up photography and was constantly stopping for pictures and learning how to use his Cannon SLR. I, on the other hand, stick to my point and shoot camera which I find does amazingly well for such a tiny camera. Aren’t those umbrellas neat?
We did find it funny how work and simply life follow us on vacation though. When taking pictures I was constantly looking at composition and layout in the way I would for web or graphic designing. When going back over our pictures you can tell which one of us (between my husband and I) had studied more in terms of layout. His excuse? “Oh honey, you can crop that for me”. Haha. I can tell you that on more than one occasion my husband stopped and said “Kristine, why are you taking a picture of THAT?” Can you tell by the look on his face in the above picture? That has got to be one of my favorites.
I love to grab images that I see around me to stick away for future inspiration. I find myself commenting on colors or the pattern or simply the layout of things around me. When you work in design its easy to fall into a pattern of doing the same stuff over and over, therefor I make a effort to watch for new things around me in my every day life. I think this is important for creative woman and is true for a lot of my clients. When was the last time you noticed a billboard’s unique use of color or how the reflection of a fountain dances on the water. I dare you to find one new thing that is inspiring to you the next time you are out running errands, or something that just looks neat. You just might be surprised at what you find!
Web Savvy Mama Vacation
I will be out of my office from the 8th to the 12th of March. As some may know, not only do I run Web Savvy Mama out of my home, I have 3 children have another job AND I am a full time college student studying nursing! You can say things are pretty crazy in our house! After 14 years my husband and I have decided it was time to FINALLY take a kid-free vacation, perfect time since we are both on spring break from school next week!
I will have access to my email during this time to answer questions and handle emergencies, but will not have access to client files. I hope you all have a great week and enjoy the weather! -Kristine
Moving Hosts Re: Domains and Email
A quick Public Service Announcement. When moving hosts you may often have to switch your name servers to the new host. The information for this is usually in a welcome letter and your new host will happily help you out with making the move. Unfortunately there is a step that many people don’t think about, email.
When you switch to a new host your email switches as well but it does not automatically set up. You’ll need to log into your new hosting control panel (cpanel in many cases) and set up your email address again.
If you are moving hosts its probably a good idea to have a backup email address handy and give it to anyone who may be working on your site, ie: web designer. This way if there is a glitch in your move you can still contact each other and the process may go faster and smoother. This especially helps if your domain is taking a bit to propagate over to the new host which can take 24-72 hours.
Wordle… fun with words
What a fun website! There goes any chance at a nap today! Poking around I found this gem of a website that allows you to insert a link and create a Wordle graphic design image based on the words it pulls from the feed of the site you linked to! Based on the Web Savvy Mama blog this is what we got.
How fun would it be to accent a blog post with words like this? Who knew typography could be so easy? Check it out for yourself and see what you can can up with! A heads up, if you do use any part of the created Wordle a link back is required, don’t forget to add that to your site if you do use it.
Try Wordle