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Dump Your DIY Website And Get a Professional to Help

judi — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:07:54 +0000

The thing that is great about 2012 is that it is easy to build a website. The problem though is that it is easy to build a bad website. And although I am a WordPress website designer here in Atlanta and am therefore pretty opinionated about this, I know bad websites drives other people crazy [...]

Prodigical Daughter

judi — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:31:26 +0000

I started blogging about five years ago and I had no idea what I was doing or what to write about. But I had discovered WordPress and I realized at the time that this was going to be big; that it was a pivotable moment in my life. I just had no idea where I [...]

Animated Signature

judi — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:39:16 +0000

This is an experiment. I made an animated signature in PhotoShop with some great instructions I found on-line. I then read a post by Lorelle who does WordPress tutorials about how to insert the PHP code into the main index template for the signature to show up at the end of a post. So we now need a drum roll . . . Well back to the drawing board!

The Vendor/Client Relationship

Judi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:33:30 +0000

I just love those girls at the Moxie Design Studio. In fact they first taught me to blog with their book the "It Girls Guide to Blogging with Moxie". It was the only pink book in the computer section at Banes and Nobles and I snatched it up. Highly recommend it. Anyway they posted a video on their blog on the vendor /client relationship. It is pretty funny. And true.

Setting up a New Blog Site

Judi — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:57:33 +0000

New Tricks is helping my sister Linda start a blog site. We got her a domain name on Go Daddy. They have .me domain names readily available which I think are great. In fact New Ticks is a .me domain. Linda was able to obtain Lindaknight.me. Now isn't that cool for only 14.00 per year? Along with the domain name we got her a delux hosted account. It takes several hours for them to make it active but then you can go to apps and have GO Daddy install a copy of Wordpress and a database for a blog site. We just got her set up and now we are going to look for a theme. More to come later.

Recycled Clothing takes on a new meaning

Judi — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:32:41 +0000

Here is an outfit I found for Myrna Perez, proprietor of the cute little Fruteria and cafe, Lotta Frutta on Auburn Ave. Kind of a Caren Miranda shops at Target look. And Here is one for the Dene who worked without rest on the Obama campaign. Called the voter swing coat, it is made of voter registration posters (hanging on the wall in the photo) cut into half inch wide strips and woven together. There are plenty of other options for all of your peeps here on this site Recycle Runway!

Bloggin in my Jammies, and other secrets of the self-employed

Judi — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:08:14 +0000

I had lunch with a friend yesterday who quit her corporate job some months ago and has done incredible things traveling to exotic locales and working her tail off while coordinating volunteers to help get Obama elected, (see her post about it today on Daily Kos). But now the real world has set in and she is looking for that next thing. Having taken that plunge myself very many years ago, I was giving her advise. You see it is always so much easier to tell other people what to do. My friend has a blog, Look Don't Leap, and she was going to document her year off and how it would take her to the next big thing... whatever that was. Only it

My Dogs are Blogging Again

Judi — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:29:12 +0000

My friend Joe says there are definite signs that I am in between jobs and have what he calls "too much time on my hands". One of them is when my dogs start blogging. A few years ago, I signed up for a Dogster account and fooled around with that for a bit. That is actually what prompted me to start my own blog. I went into Google and searched on my business name, J.C.Knight Properties, Inc, and what came up in the search engine was my dog, Craig's Dogster Diary. That was a wake up call and a lesson on search engine optimization. It seems that there are several reasons blogs are cruised by the bots more regularly one is that the content is updated more frequently, another is that they like the linking that goes on in most blogs. Shortly after that lesson I started my Word Press blog. I have been having fun with it but haven't really optimized it to bring in more business. My original website, I did back in the Dark Ages with Microsoft 's FrontPage, is still up. I have been meaning to incorporate all of the content with my blog, but haven't. It is more fun and easier to

Let It Snow

Judi — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:02:16 +0000

It has been unseasonably cold here in Atlanta this month, and today we have that overcast look it gets before a snow. But, the only snow I see is on Matt Mullinweg’s blogsite. I really love his new blog design and today I was admiring it again and either there is actually snow coming down [...]

How Do You Like the New Template?

Judi — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:50:18 +0000

I mean, besides the fact that it doesn't seem to work with Internet Explorer, yet it works just fine with Firefox. And I can't get the comments page to work. And I'd rather the main paper part of the blog had a green folder sticking out from behind it rather than the curling paper but I haven't gotten to that yet. I mean besides all that, what do you think? And while I am asking some questions of you out there, can someone tell me

I’m Back- kind of

Judi — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:10:54 +0000

Is Mercury in retrograde? Something has to have been going on. For absolutely no reason that I can fathom, my computer gave up the ghost last week. In desperation, I took it over to the Geeks and they first told me that it was “just the motherboard”. Well, okay, I left my horrible laptop with [...]

Save Save Save

Judi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:40:40 +0000

Yikes, I wrote a masterpiece on my feelings about the campaign and the Obama win last night. It took me about an hour and a half to finish and polish it up. Then, at that moment my computer froze up and I lost it. I lost the whole thing. And then I really lost it! [...]

I got me some WordPress Upgrade Blues

Judi — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:45:16 +0000

First they let you know that there is a new upgrade. The write up is enticing in that it promises that THIS version will fix so many little things that have been driving everyone crazy. So I get reeled in. I kind of remember how much of a pain in the ass it was last time i upgraded the software.

Eileen Gets Gussied Up

Judi — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:37:24 +0000

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Originally uploaded by judith.knight

After catching a look at Lucious Lamar, who it turns out is only a step-brother she has never met, Eileen decided to get dressed up in case he drops by for a visit. Problem is Grant hasn't seen Luscious since someone borrowed him and Grant can't remember who. So if you know where Lucious ran off to please let me know. Grant would like him to come home and Eileen is waiting.

Clint Zeagler is the Cat’s Pajamas

Judi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:48:32 +0000

I just found Clint Zeagler’s website and blog. Or rather Clint Zeagler just found me and then I found his site which I have thoroughly enjoyed reading. Clint’s blog is called the Pecan Pie Gazette and the tagline is: “A Big Ole Slice of the South”. I especially like his posts on southernisms. The most [...]

Looking Super

Judi — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:16:07 +0000

Danneman's is now painted and the old furniture has been purchased by Bobby at the Pizza place down the street, so it is mostly cleaned out. Grant and I started bringing in and arranging all of our treasures . It's pretty funny that we are both obsessed in the same way. We arrange things and then have to stand around and admire it. We even went back over there tonight. I had gone to Home Depot and bought two palms for either side of the front door. Grant met me over at the building to help me get them out of the car and bring them inside. But truth be told, we both just wanted to see how it looked at night and congratulate each other on how great it's looking.

Buenos Aires Blogger

Judi — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:09:54 +0000

Whether you have three days in Buenos Aires or you plan to fall in love and live here for good, a walking tour is a great way to get to know the city,

says Eve Hyman, in an Interview with Alan Patrick for the website, Argentinastravel.com. Alan is a blogger, English expat, who offers walking tours of Buenos Aires. I had read Alan's blog, Buenos Tours prior to going to Buenos Aires back in March 08 and found it fun and informative. I never was able to take one of his tours since we were on such a whirlrwind tango schedule for ten days at CITA 2008. But because I read his posts I felt like I knew where I wanted to go when we did have a little time.

Milonga Sunday at Moulon Rouge

Judi — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:57:44 +0000

This Sunday, May 11th, there will be a Milonga ( tango dance party) at the Moulon Rouge in the back of the Paris on Ponce antique shop on Ponce de Leon Place in Atlanta. There will be a beginners class at 1:30pm, and the Milonga will go from 2:30-5pm. There is a real treat this [...]