I found a great site today – light on dark, which is a gallery of black or dark-background websites. I happen to be a fan of dark sites so this is a little goldmine for me!
Archive for January, 2007
My business site was back up at 9:00 tonight – 13 hours after the DNS change began. That’s about 4 times longer than it took when I set up the account, and the techs for my host told me that there was a mistake in the DNS when they switched it back this morning.
This is the first problem I’ve had with them, but it could have been a costly one, say, if I was a retailer. I’ll remember not to go changing any master domain names from now on.
Yesterday I confirmed with my host (twice) that changing the master account domain name would have no effect whatsoever on my business website, www.parallaxwebdesign.com, and I needed a different domain to oversee my hosting accounts. So I told them go ahead and do it.
Instead of moving parallaxwebdesign.com to its own account and creating an empty master account with the new domain name, they instead just changed my master name to the new domain name and left all of my content there – which was not at all what they said they’d do.
Now it’s going on 14 hours that my site has been nonexistent. I finally got them to just change the name back – that happened this morning while I was at a meeting with a client who found it odd that my own website couldn’t be found. I was not happy.
I just got home from being in Denver all day and lo and behold – my site is STILL not up. I am really getting angry, there’s no reason it should be taking this long. I’ve been so happy with this host, and this is the first thing that’s gone wrong with them but it makes me look stupid and careless when my website is down.
One more hour and I’m going to consider setting up a temporary account on another host. My business site has to be up. And I need my email. Now.
Well, my beginning silversmithing class has ended. It was really fun and I do intend to take the next class when it’s offered again in about six weeks.
I burned myself on the last night (that figures) when I picked up this piece before I’d cooled it off in water. Not too badly, though, just enough to persuade me I didn’t want to do it again.
This pendant contains a Chinese Writing Stone – I’d never heard of this type of stone, but I chose it because the pattern looks like an open flower to me.
This is a pretty cool and interesting hobby. I was surprised to learn that you can really get started for about $200 and do all the things I did in class with the equipment you can purchase for that price – making basic rings and pendants with or without stones, and bracelets too.
When I started my web design business and was looking for a host, I first learned about reseller accounts. The host I’m with now has a great one, but not everyone may be familiar with what this entails…
What is a reseller hosting account? Generally, that means that you purchase web server space with a host, then you’re free to sell that space in whatever increments you choose and at the price you set. And typically you’ll have some kind of hosting control panel where you can set up hosting packages and prices and manage your hosting clients – up to the point of monitoring the bandwidth they’re using each month, and upgrading/downgrading or suspending if necessary.
For example, if I purchase a reseller account with 20 gb of space, I can sell 20 1gb accounts or 40 500 mb accounts and so on to my web design clients. I pay for the original account, but my clients all pay me for their accounts too. It definitely pays for itself very quickly, and the ability to oversee my clients’ hosting accounts all from one control panel is a big time saving benefit.
This is so much easier than just setting up a client with their own hosting account and of course keeps me in the loop when they need to upgrade and renew!
I’ve been an Amazon affiliate for awhile but hadn’t actually been using it. When I migrated this blog over to WordPress last week, I went back to the affiliates site and build a few product links to show some of my favorite web/SEO/CSS books. That’s when I saw the Amazon aStores link and I had to check it out.
Wow – this is a really cool idea. You can create your own store using Amazon’s products (anything you want) and customize it to look the way you want, and then you get a referral fee based on the number or type of items purchased. I put about 30 books in my store and had the whole thing up and running on the blog within a half hour.
I don’t know if it might make any money for me, but it’s a great way for me to share all my favorite books in my web design library in any event. This is a really cool thing.
Have you other bloggers put an aStore on your site? Has it done anything for you if so?
