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Just a Quick Update

December 9th, 2009 by skyline
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So what have I been doing lately?

I have been busy and noticed I hadn’t got around to posting to this site in several months. Of course, unless I post some information on here nobody that stops by this site will know if I am still here or not.

An Image I Never Used

Its Another Portland Skyline

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Also, several months ago I converted this site over to a Wordpress site and also have my old Rants, Raves & Insights blog up and running on this site, too; notwithstanding that I have not posted to it in almost forever it seems. What I noticed was that I had grown tired of the theme I had been using and decided to build a new Wordpress theme from the ground up. You are looking at it. I call this Wordpress theme, Skyline Two. Website design, coding, Photoshop design and slicing, Flash design and a bunch of PHP coding all go into developing something like this.

This is the second Wordpress theme I have built from scratch in the past few weeks. You can see the other theme at Portlands Foreclosures. I also created a landing page for them too. Check out the “Coming Soon” link on that site to see a Real Estate Listings mockup with a nifty Flash intro.

Speaking of Flash … if you haven’t clicked on the PLAY INTRO link on the header image above … do so now. That’s another Flash intro that I am using here; because I Flash adds to a site, but an entire Flash Driven site is not so good for most sites, because Flash still is not as search engine friendly as standard XHTML and CSS driven sites. Nonetheless, Flash still looks cool and adds some pizazz to a site. In fact, I have recently put together a couple other sites that include Flash banners. Check out Just Settle My Debts and Renegotiate My Home Loan websites.

Rather than run on a bunch on this post, I will keep it short by saying that I have also been doing some social media marketing with Facebook and Twitter, some online classified marketing, developed some landing pages, tying some of them to lists and autoresponders. I also put together a few ebooks and done a little bit of work with Joomla, too. I will write more later to update the site.

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For ROI sake socialize your website

June 14th, 2009 by skyline
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Return On Investment & Risk Of Inaction

“If your business is a little slow right now, this is the perfect time to take care of the web design you have been putting off.”

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Of course, it may be you don’t have a website yet. That is another reason why NOW is a perfect time to promote your business with a professional web design so you can get your business on the internet and start taking advantage of the exciting revolution in marketing that is currently taking place. Notwithstanding the weak economy, representing your business with a unique web design is one of the most effective ways of distinguishing yourself from your competition. Toms Skyline Design can customize a site for you with a myriad of layout and color options. Right now, there is not a better way to invest into your company’s future growth than with a well designed website that is taking advantage of today’s interactive marketing boom. Let’s stop for a minute, in case you do feel your business is a cookie cutter operation. It may be that you are governed by a franchise agreement, or an affiliate agreement. That’s okay, too. You can still maintain compliance and be able to distinguish yourself from your competitors, so that others will want to invest in you and your business, too. Web design solutions for those types of scenarios simply require additional steps.

Find out more about our web design services here.

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Toms Skyline Design is now Twitter enabled

June 4th, 2009 by skyline
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I have been re-facing this site and converting it over to a Wordpress based site. I already had a WP blog on the site see here However, that is an older version of WP and I would have needed to make a lot of changes to the theme I had previously customized in order for it to work and play well with the newest version of Wordpress. So, I decided to switch out the other site that included a Flash header and lots of php includes, to a completely new look.

In the process, I have included a plugin which added a Twitter button on all pages, posts and comments. So, now if you place a comment to any posts on this site you can tweet it, too.

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Joomla 1.5.11 is released

June 4th, 2009 by skyline
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Have you heard … Joomla has just released their latest CMS version; with several security patches and updates. The developers at Joomla are continuing to fortify this robust content management system. Is this a quick process to update or install the new version of Joomla?

In short, the answer is no, it is not a quick process. Joomla contains thousands of files and if you are upgrading, you should set up a test server that is configured as closely as possible to your live Joomla site and then set up the test site. It can be fairly risky trying to update your live site; and bypass this step. It will take time of course. But, it is better than losing all of your work and countless hours invested.

If you are planning on a fresh install of Joomla, it is best if you have shell access. If you do not, trying to upload the files via ftp is a bit tricky. In fact, I have read that you cannot set it up via ftp. However, that is not entirely true. You can use Dreamweaver or other similar IDE to upload your Joomla files via ftp. However, you will need to open each folder and each sub-folder or sub-directory, and each of the sub-directories below and then only select part of the files to upload at one time. You will need to repeat this process as many times as necessary to upload all of the files. If you simply try to upload all of the files at one time, it may appear that the task completed okay; and you may even get a report that all files were uploaded. The fact is, not all of the files were actually uploaded. This can cause a lot of frustration trying to setup Joomla, if you think all the files are there; when in actuality they are not. So use SSH if you can.

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