Grant Barker

(Do you cover Tokyo, Japan? - sorry cheap shot.) It's nice and simple. It could benefit from an image on the front page to identify your main service on offer. A larger photo of you (like you have on a couple of your pages linked from the bottom) will seem more sincere, and help people know who to expect to arrive at their home/workplace. You seem to be focusing on SEO well enough - judging by the layout, titles, blog headings, etc., this post. I'm not really into Social Media (as much as I should be), yet you too could maybe benefit from replacing the bottom text links, and having them higher up as social media buttons. I would hire you. The fact that you say that you enjoy the work, shows to me the dedication and pride that comes with having a passion - in any trade or field. Good luck. I hope you reply to this thread. So many spammers leave just a single post, in their quest for SEO perfection, and never return.

Sketch looks good. I'm on a PC, so I probably won't get to use it. I don't design much nowadays. To work with images, I have started to use online image sites.

I come in peace.. I am not a pro and still love using the latest Dreamweaver. (I cower before you. Don't hurt me.) A lot of what the pros here say above is over my head. Having said that, I am going to try some of the above software and see how easy it is to use. I pay for Adobe Creative Cloud every month and I'm pretty sure that DW has improved plenty since the old days. Again, I'm not a pro and wouldn't even get in the door for an interview to be one. Some of us have to make the rest of you look good.

My 2 cents: Everyone is normal, but be kind. Just be more of yourself, and be kind. Your vibe attracts your tribe (you won't please everyone). I love reading the book `The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success', by Deepak Chopra. (Think of success as meaning happiness.) It's a tiny book (7 chapters) and takes about an hour to read. If you go outside in the fresh air and read it, I expect you will feel a little calmer afterwards. It reminds us that life tends to be a spiritual game and some things seem to come our way if we help them go to others first. Of course, we all have different beliefs. Seek and you will find. You are not alone. And just because I have this opinion doesn't mean that my life is perfect or blissful. It just means that we can all step back and take a deep breath and focus on what's important at the end of the day. Trying to be liked is a waste of time. High five! Group hug!!

I recommend you Google/Bing for web hosts. I made a decision based on location, supporting a newer UK company (I expect to move back to the UK in the future), plus especially the offer of free SSL after struggling to justify being charged $65 for SSL for each of my 3 domains with my previous and occasionally temperamental web host. (2 of those old domains simply point to my main one.) Go with your needs. I'm all for supporting companies if you feel the enthusiasm, but I don't think that a forum like this is the place to advertise or spam them. Spam tends to take over pretty quickly. Just my 2 cents though. It's all good, and good luck.

I think it's a good site. Nicely done.

Hi Daniel. It sounds like you could have a gig on Fiverr.com and help people there as well. I often consider using Fiverr for advice for various things I struggle with from color to keywords, etc. I hope you can help people out.

This site has a ton of posts where the op says something just to post a link onto this site, and then they disappear into oblivion. It happens probably thousands of times each year. Is there a benefit to doing this for the ops? I know the links posted on this site are no-follow, etc. Just curious. Maybe I'm a miserable old sod and imagine this?

As a domain name owner, you can pay for domain privacy which might cost about $15 a year per domain. That should help to stop people seeing your name on Whois info. I think you know this already. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there with websites, blogs, Facebook, etc., the more you are at risk of less privacy for you and those around you - if privacy is so important to you. There are quite a few people who might take advantage of these things. I gave an old phone away to someone recently through my site, and from what I can tell they might have been more interested in getting my address (which I didn't write on the international delivery document) than the old phone itself. I know of at least one fairly well established entrepreneur / affiliate marketing guy on YouTube, who wouldn't think twice about scamming me and anyone else to make a buck. The dude works hard but needs to enhance his email marketing, naming and timing techniques. You could choose to be an anonymous entity on forums and YouTube and such, if that is the only way you see yourself being comfortable and maintaining any privacy, or you can be yourself. It's not an easy decision. I suppose fear is partly the reason. Fear of losing respect or customers or something. Fear or love baby. Queue the music Billy Joel - All About Soul..

On the technical side, when I usually boot up Windows, I quickly move my mouse cursor to wake up the lock screen. Maybe 3 out of 10 startups I notice that the cursor is moving more quickly than I like, so I simply reboot and the next time it's back to the normal sensitivity. This is probably about Windows not groping the driver properly or something. With any decent mouse I would always invest in a decent mouse pad/mat. Especially if requiring precision or gaming accuracy. (Plus over time it protects the desk or table top.) When I originally looked for your mouse on the manufacturer's website, I noticed they do sell a mouse pad, but I suppose they would have to at least offer one. When looking at images of your mouse on Bing or Google, I notice that many images don't include a mouse pad which is cleaner for marketing, but a decent mouse pad offers a level of consistency that an otherwise random surface doesn't. With my Logitech G600 and previous mice, I use a SteelSeries mouse pad. It's a think hard plastic (as opposed to the cloth versions they also sell). A new mouse glides like ice over a decent mouse pad. Hopefully, any issues can be worked out with future Windows updates. To get it fixed I would click Start and type`Feedback hub'. Then let them know your problem with the exact make and model of mouse. I hope it gets fixed.

Thank you Frank. I don't currently live in the UK, but I like the idea of being on a course with other people, as a change from trying to learn on the PC at home. When I move back to the UK, these types of courses will be quite appealing, I think. Good luck with your course.

Thanks. I've got the concept. I just need to list the correct terms for my pieces of content. I care more about potentially listing the wrong term than no term at all. It's on my to-do list. Cheers.

Thanks BrowserBugs 👍. I'll read that article. Thanks for the link. I'm curious how we should be relating to the less obvious pages, too. I've checked out quite a few sites and different ones use different labels even for the same type of pages/content. It's another new year holiday break, so it's nice to have time to get a few things done. Cheers

Hi everyone. I'm relating to the schema.org documentation. For our main website index page - in our code we should probably use itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebSite" 1. What should we be using for other main category list pages like - list of news article links, list of app page links, etc.? 2. And then for each specific article page, should we be using itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article"? Thanks for your advice/opinions.

Did you ever fix this issue? I was curious if you had the same OS version at home as at work (and the same mouse pad, too). I wonder how different your work hardware is compared to your home hardware.

Is the banner a large fish?

Microsoft recently announced that their Edge browser will soon be running the open source Chromium engine. Microsoft Blog Microsoft Blog post 2

Clarity by Microsoft Get insights about how customers use your website. By adding some simple JavaScript to your page, get the ability to replay page views, view sessions and observe interactions. Bing Blogs I thought this might interest some of you. It's in beta I believe.

http://www.responsinator.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyourboothskent.co.uk%2F I'm no good at design, so I'm probably a hypocrite for saying this, but the only thing I don't like about your site is the logo. (I like the idea of using fiverr.com for very quick and reasonably priced work to fix things which other people can do better.) Everything else can be tidied up as per fisicx and other members' recommendations. Therefore, good job. Yes, it looks like fun, too. 👍

Microsoft won an Emmy (press F3 and search for Microsoft) this week for their Standardization of HTML5 work (with Edge), along with Google and a few other companies. Source

I would search on YouTube for the latest info. Another thought. For people who want to pay a tiny amount for any type of work from someone more experienced, you can always use fiverr.com.

Welcome to the club! The coding behind the scenes on my sites looks like a modified car out of Mad Max.

You could offer constructive criticism about people's sites. Making an offer via a video might help to come across more honest and leave less doubt in people's minds, if you care about that sort of thing.

Thanks fisicx and BlueDreamer. I have bookmarked both of those resources. 👍

Thank you, gentlemen. 👍 I will continue to use the name.