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Oct 11
photo image editing
13
Sep 11
exporting emails from constant contact
This should be helpful mostly to my clients who want to switch from constant contact mailing list services to their own newsletter manager.
1.)login to your constant contact account
2.)at the home page tab go to manage your contacts
3.)select the lists you want to export.
4.)at the top next to the right of manage contacts click export
5.)under export selection put a check box in first name and last name only
6.)export as a CSV
7.)open your admin and go to mailing list subscribers>import users from file
8.)under step 1:click browse and select your file you just downloaded from constant contact and click upload. do not change the default settings.
9.)on step 2 define fields, you should now see some of your emails and a first name and last name column which are blank. click define data selection
10.)step 3 perform import click it.
You will now see a screen that says inserting data….Import Complete and the number of records inserted. close the window you are done.
You can open up the original CSV file in Excel to see if all your emails uploaded by noting the count and then the count in your admin.
Getting listed, improves your seo (search engine optimization) in local searches. Per Google, studies have shown, 97% of consumers search for local businesses online. A complete and detailed listing in Places can help Google better understand your business and match you to relevant search results too. Using Google Places you can help your business stand out with tools to add photos, videos, get and respond to reviews, or give a shout out to special promos. Using stats gathered you can study keywords used in searches, and where your customers coming from. Google Places is a tool to help with your marketing and seo. Why not get listed today, it’s a great tool and a FREE one!
By using Open Graph tags you can control how facebook shares your information. These are like <meta> tags that you add to the <head> of your website to describe your page.
If you use, Open Graph tags, the following six are required:
og:title– The title of the entity.og:type– The type of entity. You must select a type from the list of Open Graph types.og:image– The URL to an image that represents the entity. Images must be at least 50 pixels by 50 pixels. Square images work best, but you are allowed to use images up to three times as wide as they are tall.og:url– The canonical, permanent URL of the page representing the entity. When you use Open Graph tags, the Like button posts a link to the og:url instead of the URL in the Like button code.og:site_name– A human-readable name for your site, e.g., “IMDb”.fb:adminsorfb:app_id– A comma-separated list of either the Facebook IDs of page administrators or a Facebook Platform application ID. At a minimum, include only your own Facebook ID.
An Open Graph tag looks like this:
<meta property=”og:tag name” content=”tag value”/>
If you are just concerned about the image Facebook will grab and don’t want to deal with all involved in Open Graph tags, you can use the following meta key in your <head>
<link rel=”image_src” href=”path_to_your_thumbnail_image” / >
02
Sep 11
how to login to your Google sitemap
To see Sitemap details:
- Sign into Webmaster Tools with your Google Account.
- On the Dashboard, click the site you want.
- Click Sitemaps.
- In the list, click the Sitemap you want.
1.) open photoshop
2.) open your product image in photoshop
3.) go to image>image size>the image size box will popup
I am resizing to 160×160. Reduce either the width or height to the size you want the square. Pick the one that does not make the other less than the size you are wanting. I used the height for mine. This made the width a litte bigger than 160 but that is okay.
4.) Now open a new document, go to File>New. In the new box that appears put a width of 160 and a height of 160 and click OK.
This is what you will see now-
5.) Now using your move tool and your mouse drag your resized product image over the blank white new document you created. Move it around to find the placement you want.
6.) Now save it for the web by going to file, save for the web and you are done.
This notice only applies to clients utilizing UPS Shipping Calculators with the “Regular Daily Pickup” setting selected in the Shipping Calculators admin. Clients using “Customer Counter” may safely ignore this announcement.
The UPS has changed their API — and the “Regular Daily Pickup” option no longer returns the correct prices. For some reason, that method returns the same rates as the “Customer Counter” option — fortunately, the “One Time Pickup” option now returns the same rates as what “Regular Daily Pickup” used to return — so, adding this code:
| Code: |
| if ($RateChart == ‘Regular+Daily+Pickup’) { $RateChart = ‘One+Time+Pickup’; } |
in the file inc/cart_functions.php
immediately *after* this line (around line 357, depending on your shopping catalog version):
| Code: |
| $RateChart = value_from_id(‘tbl_ups_rate_chart’, ‘rate_chart_id’, ‘rate_chart’, $SHIPPING_CALCULATOR_CONTROL->ups_rate_chart_id); |
will give you the correct prices for “Regular Daily Pickup”.
04
Jan 11
Important USPS update
USPS has changed the codes returned by their Web Tools API — We have no
information regarding if any actions are being done to resolve the
issues currently being experienced by web tools API users — so in the
meantime, we have a patch for users running version 2.5 or later
(check your version at the bottom of your admin panel) that should resolve difficulties in calculating USPS shipping
methods.
Watch this space for more information:
http://www.cgonsa.com/blog/
http://www.cgonsa.com/blog/
contact me via email to get the patch.
extract the patch.
Via FTP Overwrite the file inc/usps/usps_functions.php with the file contained
in the zip
NOTE: This file is only compatible with versions 2.5 and newer. If you are unable to do this yourself, please inquire with me for assistance.
18
Sep 10
Facebook and Twitter accounts
Clients who want to setup Facebook and Twitter accounts using cgonsa art need prior approval. Please contact me so we may make arrangements. Thank you.
Many of you received an email from blogger notifying they will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. This means your blog will still be viewable but you will no longer be able to publish.
With the use of a migration tool you will be able to switch to a blogger managed url using a blogspot domain. The migration tool will be available February 22, 2010.
———————–The E-mail———————-
From: Blogger Support
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 4:30 PM
Subject: Important: Changes to Blogger FTP Service
Subject: Important: Changes to Blogger FTP Service
Dear FTP user:
You are receiving this e-mail because one or more of your blogs at Blogger.com are set up to publish via FTP. We recently announced a planned shut-down of FTP support on Blogger Buzz (the official Blogger blog), and wanted to make sure you saw the announcement. We will be following up with more information via e-mail in the weeks ahead, and regularly updating a blog dedicated to this service shut-down here: http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/.
The full text of the announcement at Blogger Buzz follows.
Last May, we discussed a number of challenges facing[1] Blogger users who relied on FTP to publish their blogs. FTP remains a significant drain on our ability to improve Blogger: only .5% of active blogs are published via FTP — yet the percentage of our engineering resources devoted to supporting FTP vastly exceeds that. On top of this, critical infrastructure that our FTP support relies on at Google will soon become unavailable, which would require that we completely rewrite the code that handles our FTP processing.
Three years ago we launched Custom Domains[2] to give users the simplicity of Blogger, the scalability of Google hosting, and the flexibility of hosting your blog at your own URL. Last year’s post discussed the advantages of custom domains over FTP[3] and addressed a number of reasons users have continued to use FTP publishing. (If you’re interested in reading more about Custom Domains, our Help Center has a good overview[4] of how to use them on your blog.) In evaluating the investment needed to continue supporting FTP, we have decided that we could not justify diverting further engineering resources away from building new features for all users.
For that reason, we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for some users, and we are committed to making the transition as seamless as possible. To that end:
We are building a migration tool that will walk users through a migration from their current URL to a Blogger-managed URL (either a Custom Domain or a Blogspot URL) that will be available to all users the week of February 22. This tool will handle redirecting traffic from the old URL to the new URL, and will handle the vast majority of situations.
- We will be providing a dedicated blog[5] and help documentation
- Blogger team members will also be available to answer questions on the forum, comments on the blog, and in a few scheduled conference calls once the tool is released.
We have a number of big releases planned in 2010. While we recognize that this decision will frustrate some users, we look forward to showing you the many great things on the way. Thanks for using Blogger.Regards,
Rick Klau
Blogger Product Manager
Google1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043———————–END E-mail———————-
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