Nextebizguy
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You Only Have 4 Seconds
Nov 11th
Do you want to keep your users happy and purchasing? You’ve got a mere 4 seconds.
According to research done by Akamai, your website must load within 4 seconds otherwise the customer will abandon the site. The report also notes:The consequences for an online retailer whose site underperforms include diminished goodwill, negative brand perception, and, most important, significant loss in overall sales.
Another lesson learned is that a site can’t be too fast. The faster the page loads, the better the customer response. Even differences like a half second make an impression.
You better think twice about tons of flashy graphics and AJAX scripts. This is truly the instant gratification generation.How To Use CSS With An HTML Ebay Listing
Oct 20th
Let’s face it, eBay is not that user-friendly when it comes to creative listings. I labored over a nice CSS layout and when I tried to upload the listing, the CSS mods would not take. So after much trial and error, I found a way to make it work.
If you want to get CSS working with your HTML eBay listing, you need to make it an externally linked style sheet. Nothing is simple with the html on eBay. When you paste your HTML code, be sure and just cut/paste what’s inside your body tags and nothing else. Then make sure that the first line of the HTML code is the linked style sheet. When you preview the listing you’ll see your CSS mods. I’ve also heard that inline styles work, but I haven’t tested that. For me, it was much easier to keep the CSS separate.Importing a Blogger Blog to Wordpress
Sep 14th
Quick summary: Yes, it worked, but not on the first try. On a 1 to 10 Pain Scale it was about a 5.
I started this morning at 6:30 am and finally got it imported at 9:30am. I am on a fresh 2.04 Wordpress theme with a modified theme template. Wordpress makes it ridiculously easy to start the import process, but that doesn’t mean it will work the first time.
The first attempt imported 5 posts. The second attempt 17 posts. I started searching google for help but all I found were a lot of sites with crazy instructions on how to export and FTP to my new domain. Way too much hassle.
I had a hunch that the problem might be related to how my monthly archived posts on blogger were displaying. I had used a mod that would display the archived posts in a drop down list instead of listing out each month on the site. I changed that back to the default behavior and tried again. Ahh, success!
The third time the script ran as expected and all my posts imported correctly. After a quick look around I was satisfied. It took another few hours to tag the posts to the correct categories but overall it was a nice transition.
Wordpress is a great piece of software. I highly recommend it.