Articles tagged with “organize”
- Do You Have a Year-End Maintenance Ritual?
- Over the past several years working online, my year-end maintenance routine has evolved from simple website backups to a robust strategy involving many important and useful tasks. Some of the items on the list have indeed been performed multiple times throughout the year, but are included here to emphasize their importance. Additionally, many of these tasks are great for helping bloggers gain a clearer picture ...
- Rethinking Site Functionality, Presentation, and Structure
- Two weeks ago, I decided to completely overhaul Perishable Press. The decision came after several months of smooth sailing with excellent site performance, an optimized theme, plenty of visitors, and even a comfortable posting schedule. All things considered, everything was peachy keen — until I began reflecting on the “big picture,” meditating upon certain aspects that are frequently taken for granted ...
- Notes and Tips for Better Social Bookmarking
- For those of you still hiding your bookmarks within the dark confines of your browser’s “favorites” menu, may I suggest stepping into the “here and now” with a fresh new approach: social bookmarking. Hopefully, most of my readers are already familiar with the many wonders of managing and sharing your bookmarks online, but for those who may still be questioning the whole idea, allow me to expound briefly on several of the immediate benefits:
Universal access to ...
- Five-Step Feed-Portfolio Makeover
- Recently, I found myself drowning in an ocean of RSS feeds. Even after switching to Google Reader, which definitely speeds up the process of plowing through posts, I was wasting too much time consuming subscribed content. Thus, in an effort to find balance between saving time and staying current, I executed the following five-step feed portfolio makeover:
Drop lame feeds. Previously, I had subscribed to a number of feeds simply because they were recommended or mentioned in ...
- Get Organized, Save Time with the AT&T 8525 Pocket PC
- [ Keywords: at&t, htc, 8525, organized, features, pc, windows, mobile, wireless, cell, phone, email ]
The AT&T 8525 is the first UMTS/HSDPA smart phone to be offered in the United States. It has integrated Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, and supports AT&T’s new music, video, and location-based services. The Windows Mobile device also has push e-mail capabilities, a 2-megapixel camera, a spacious QWERTY keyboard, and good call quality.
— CNET Editors’ ...
- Cultivating a Successful Screenshot Archive
- Let’s face it. Websites are as transient as the wind. Developers and designers spend countless hours producing sites that may exist online for mere months or even less before being restructured, redesigned or removed completely, forever disappearing into eternal nothingness -- or, even worse, into the sterile void of a search engine database. Clearly not the best situation for designers looking to maintain a complete record of their online work.
Even for sites proactively encouraging their caching and ...
- Launch Multiple Programs with One Click
- Speed up your workflow by launching your favorite programs in one click using batch (.bat) files:
Create a folder and add shortcuts to your favorite programs.
Rename the shortcuts so that each consists of a single word.
Create a text file and change the name to something.bat.
Right-click on the .bat ("batch") file and select "Edit".
Emulate the following template according to your specific programs.
rem comments should begin with rem
rem note: this file launches all of my favorite ...
- Roll Your Own SEO Log
- Introduction
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the business of every serious webmaster. The process of optimizing a website for the search engines involves much more than properly constructed document headers and anchor tags. Websites are like trees: their roots are the growing collection of content presented through the branching universe of the World Wide Web. Or something. The point is that optimizing a website requires nurturing the site itself while also ensuring proper ...
- Preparing for Business
- Looking ahead at the events planned for this year, I feel the need to completely restructure, reorganize, and streamline my entire digital universe. This will take a sweet amount of time, I realize, but given the complex behemoth that my digital archive has become due to the accumulation of over seven years’ worth of projects, reformats, and acquisitions, the time is now.
It all started out simply, with my first computer a mere two folders, “art” and ...