Everything posted by Meow
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Monitoring Website Traffic
No, it works by tracking each and every page load on your site - part of that is looking at all the differnt places your visitors come from. The Google connection is that you have a Google account in which to view the reports. Have a look here Also, as Carl says above, you may have a stats package with your host but personally I prefer Google for a couple of reasons (over the stats packages I have used. Not saying that the following applies/doesn't to all of them as I don't know if it does!). Google can be customised and run the reports you tell it to and add your own filters and goals in there. You can also tie it with your Adwords account if you have one. It can email you reports detailing only what you have asked for on a regular period that you specifiy Some hosting based packages count log file info which doesn't necessarily tally with real page views.
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Monitoring Website Traffic
Google Analytics? Can you monitor how many times the contact form is used from how many mails you get in your Inbox from it? If not because they go to different people or something, the easiest way is probably to have a 'Thanks for your enquiry' page after the form submit that is monitored on the Analytics. You're unlikely to reach the page without submitting the form.
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How do you finish the jobs you hate?
I kind if do that, I have a book to write in the To Do list for the week, remind myself what's still on the go (or what I've forgotten about) and cross them off as I go. I like the whiteboard idea, we used to do that in my old employer's office, which also worked well - never thought of doing it at home. Though unfortunately that would frighten the good jobs away!
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How do you finish the jobs you hate?
You know when you get those jobs, once you've started it you find you really don't like it, you have absolutely no inspiration to keep going with it and keep finding anything to do but that job... how do you motivate yourself to get stuck and just get it done?
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VAT registration
I did, as I felt it helped towards the element of trust in a sole trader not long started out, plus I was all excited about doing businessy things. In retrospect, I think I was a bit hasty. It can be a bit of a pain, like getting into the habit of consistently either thinking in terms of including VAT in a price or remembering to always make it clear that you will add VAT in conversations. You may be surprised at how some small unregistered businesses react to VAT. There is a bit of extra paperwork, but specifically making sure you always get a proper VAT receipt for purchases in order to be able to reclaim. If you travel a lot, remembering to ask at the petrol station for a VAT receipt since they don't do it as standard practice (and then the faffing about splitting that into VAT and non-VAT fuel elements!). And then of course there is remembering to keep the money aside for the bills, since it sits there looking all attractive in the bank until you remember how much of it isn't actually yours - if your bank account comes with a reserve account make sure to use that to shift it into. If I started again now, I think I'd say that unless the outgoings and therefore reclaimable VAT would make it worthwhile, or I knew that all or most of my customers would be VAT registered, I probably wouldn't bother. Of course, if you are heading towards the threshold limit then you have no choice and it's a good idea to sort registration out before turnover actually reaches that figure.
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Comments on logo please...
I think you should try that. Also, with the J sloping away from the 'ob' it looks as if that should be pulled a little more left than the 'ar'. It may also help to perhaps have the whole jar part slightly smaller, or the J just a bit bolder?
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Comments on logo please...
I like what you've done - now I have seen it. I didn't click at first that the J was in the jar shape... I read the words as 'Ob Ar Recruitment'. I don't know if it's the spacing between the jar and the latter parts of the words that do it?
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PSD Photoshop files in templates, what for?
Giving you the freedom to easily change little bits and pieces in the graphics, or the colours?
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A bright idea
You can apply to file copyright here https://secure.copyrightservice.co.uk/ - there is an assessment thingy to do first.
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Email blacklisted!
There could be any number of reasons why. Unlikely to be a serious misconfiguration if it's only one company, unless the whole setup is very new. Do you know whether the client has been sending out large quantities of spam? That'd be the obvious one. Or it could even be as simple as one or two people reporting one or two of their emails as spam even if they're not. How to get removed from the 'blacklist' depends on the provider in question. You may be able to find policies on their websites.
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Freelance design. UK Tax?
Yes, I was kind of rattling on a bit there without really thinking about what I was getting down, sorry! To elaborate - if you had been in a job with a higher income and were paying tax at the rate for working there all year, and then had a sudden drop when going it alone and depending on how your finances worked, it's possible that you may have ended up paying 'too much tax' - probably not a very high chance of it, but it's possible. It really isn't any more difficult than being on PAYE as long as you make time to keep on top of your accounts - in whatever form that may be, whether it's making sure all receipts and invoices are made available to your bookkeeper or keeping the books yourself. If you do them yourself, don't let them pile up for longer than a week - if you don't enter things daily, diary a weekly slot to do it or it soon runs away with itself.
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copyright issues
Short answer is that copyright belongs to the creator of a work by default. In the case of a website, your unique design and any self-written code is copyright to yourself unless your contract signs copyright over to the client. If the client has written the copy on the site, that's their copyright. If you are using code such as a CMS or script, there are likely built in copyright notices (in the code, not necessarily out there in big bold letters on the page). If there is a copyright symbol on a site then one should assume all site copyright belongs to the name next to the symbol. If the site utilises stuff from elsewhere that should be credited where appropriate. Even if there is no copyright attribute, one should still assume copyright belongs to the company/owner of the website. It is possible to register work with the UK Copyright Service (I think they are called) but unless your website is something really out of this world, it's not something commonly done.
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Gap between images - Background-repeat: y
Assuming there is a closing } on the actual CSS file... Are you sure it's not an image cropping error and there isn't a white edge or something? Can we see the problem in action to get a clearer idea of exactly where the problem lies?
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Count to 1 million
859 is the Kentucky area dialling code.
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Maestro/Switch UK Phaseout
My HSBC Maestro was replaced months ago, in plenty of time for me not to worry about paying with it. I assumed other banks would have done the same. It hasn't made any difference to me receiving payment as most people still want to send flipping cheques despite me offering a selection of other methods (I'm tempted to start charging an inconvenience fee for the things )
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Amending existing websites
You haven't really given us enough information here - whilst your client's past designer may be being unreasonable, there may also be 101 reasons why they are not. First question I would ask is had the previous designer actually finished the job and been paid in full by your client? Then find out exactly what the charges are for and whether they relate to any contractual agreement that your client may be choosing to ignore. Also, you don't necessarily need 'the files' but to be given FTP access or a CMS login, depending on what the whole situation is.
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Weird problem. Form field borders missing in safari
It might be the global no border in * { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; } Give your input fields a CSS specification including a border and see what happens. EDIT: Crossed post with BlueDreamer
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Formatting a sub list
Try nesting the sublist inside the previous list item. E.g. <ul> <li>item1 <ul> <li>sub item 1</li> <li>sub item 1</li> </ul> </li> <li>...... See how the blue list combination is inside the red list item - the closing </li> comes after the nested list.
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How to handle sales calls?
Make sure your number is registered with the Telephone Preference Service - http://www.tpsonline.org.uk. You can put home, mobile or business numbers on there. They say to allow a month for it to fully kick in but it does work. And for those few who do get through if you tell them you are signed up there they should go away pretty sharpish.
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Text Wont Go Centre
Is it the #secnav li {display:inline; padding-left: 30px} ? If each list item has a 30px padding on the left, the whole list will appear to be 30px offset as it will include that on its left hand side but not the right. Could you do it as 15px left and right instead?
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New site design mock!
Love the change of font in itself... but I think I preferred it before, this time I'm not so keen on the big rounded serif against the small square one your logo.
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New site design mock!
I think it's very nice, effective, love the colours. But, there's something ever so slightly odd about that font (I really don't like the 'g' character!)
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Dealing with Vague Feedback
Spot on, think I've met all of them at some point.
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