Web Review: Cultures For Health

Cultures for Health: Where Healthy Food Starts We offer a wide selection of starter cultures for yogurt, sourdough, kombucha, kefir, etc. as well as a range of products to support a whole foods lifestyle. Widest selection available online. One stop shopping for your culturing and fermentation needs!

Julie contacted me requesting a web review of her site. This website owner told me she also has plans to do some work on her site coming up and would love the feedback.

How this works: I will review this website on both technical and artistic properties and give each a “pear rating”. I will also include why the site got the grade it did and what things could be done to improve the site.

See how her site did after the jump Read More…

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Can WSM Review Your Website?

I’m always looking for new ways to get my readers involved and I received a suggestion to do reviews. I think this is a great idea! Most blogs do product reviews, but since my readers are looking for web site tips I thought I’d do web reviews instead!

So how does this work?

I’ll chose a website that has been submitted by a reader and do a review .

I’ll give each site a “pear” rating for both artistic and technical characteristics.

This will include a brief description for the rating given.

I’ll then give suggestions on how the site could be improved or changed to get a higher rating.

Why would you want to have your site reviewed?

I’ll post a link to the site I’ll be reviewing, thus helping in your SEO efforts and free advertising!

You’ll get helpful feedback on your web site design and how you can make it better and thus increase your sales/visitors!

What’s the catch?

There is always a catch, right? Mine is that I will not review sites designed by Web Savvy Mama or my affiliates. That just wouldn’t be fair to other sites being reviewed.

Sites can only be submitted by the web site owner.

You give permission to display a screenshot of your site and understand you may not get a 5 pear review.

So how do I submit my site for review?

Email me at: contact@websavvymama.com

Provide the site URL/name

Email me from the email address displayed on your website to prove that it is indeed your site.

Do I need to link back to WSM?
No, but a link back is always appreciated if you wish to show your thanks!
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Back it up, Thunderbird and Firefox

Recently I’ve been having all kinds of issues with my PC. Its incredibly unstable. So I started making plans earlier this year to transfer everything to a new computer. The part that was really keeping me from going ahead with it was that I’m dependent on my old emails. If you are like me you have thousands of emails that you use as references for projects and clients. Its your backup to the paper files and doc files. I’ve had clients come to me saying their computer crashed and they lost all their emails, panic sets in.

I realize I need to learn to backup my email files and learn to transfer them to another computer if necessary. I found many tutorials but they were kind of confusing. If you’ve followed my previous advice, you’re using Thunderbird email and Firefox browser. If you’re not, go get them now! They are free and easy to use, much better than Outlook and Internet Explorer.

I found this tutorial and used it to start the process, I’ll translate it to easy to understand directions. While I was at it I figure I may as well backup my Firefox as well so I didn’t have to re-bookmark everything.

Step one: Clean out your emails! Trust me, you’ll be kicking yourself later if you skip this step and are waiting on the large file download. Empty your trash and remove any emails you don’t need. For me this was something like 4,000 emails!

Step two: Locate your Applications Data folder. It is a hidden folder so the easiest way to do this is to got to Start>run> and type %APPDATA% (Click ok)

Step three: Locate the “Mozilla” (FireFox) and “Thunderbird” folders depending on which one you want to backup. Copy these folders in their entirety and paste to a portable device you want to backup on. This could be a CD, USB drive or an External Drive.

Thats it, you have a backup of your emails and browser links! To install these if you loose your information just find the Applications Data folder again and use your backup to overwrite the files. (Copy and Paste and click “yes to all” when prompted) You can use this as a backup on your current computer or a new computer, as in my case. Either way, its a good idea to make backups every once in awhile to ensure you don’t lose your important information!

Technorati Tags: Mozilla, FireFox, Thunderbird, email, browser

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