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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 27, 2020, at 9:38 PM, Shel Horowitz <<a href="mailto:shel@principledprofit.com" class="">shel@principledprofit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">"3. Avoid opening links in new windows as much as possible. It's pretty common to do so for external links and PDFs, but should be avoided 100% of the time for internal links. Trust people to use the back button."<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hi, Greg. Curious about why.<br class=""><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-size:small" class=""></div><div class="">Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"</div><div class="">________________________________________________</div><div class="">Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, </div><div class="">poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change</div><div class="">* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified</div><div class="">* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame</div><div class="">* Certified speaker: International Platform Association</div><div class=""><a href="http://goingbeyondsustainability.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://goingbeyondsustainability.com</a> </div><div class="">mailto:<a href="mailto:shel@greenandprofitable.com" target="_blank" class="">shel@greenandprofitable.com</a> 413-586-2388</div><div class="">Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. </div><div class="">Latest:Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World </div><div class="">(co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Watch my TEDx Talk,</div><div class="">"Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809" target="_blank" class="">http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809</a> </div><div class="">(move your mouse to "event videos")</div><div class="">_________________________________________________</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:31 AM Greg Perham via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" class="">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Hi Roger,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">+1 for WordPress. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You might want to consider MailChimp's free plan for managing your subscriber list. No need to bring JotForm or another third party into the mix.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looks like you're hosting on Network Solutions. My experience with clients who were on Netsol has been that they were paying 2 to 4 times above the norm and the performance and control panel were so poor they moved house when they upgraded. If the pricing is good and you can easily install WP, I say stay; otherwise, definitely move on.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A few things<span style="" class=""> </span><span style="" class="">to keep in mind</span> when moving your site to WP (or any other platform):</div><div class="">1. Make sure <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/" target="_blank" class="">redirects</a> are set up for your .html pages to help search engines index the new pages and keep your rankings.</div><div class="">2. Do not just copy and paste your current code into WordPress. It needs to be cleaned up and modernized. You will want to make use of heading tags etc instead of spans with inline styles. This is for accessibility, SEO, maintainability, and portability. It's just how HTML is meant to be used.</div><div class="">3. Avoid opening links in new windows as much as possible. It's pretty common to do so for external links and PDFs, but should be avoided 100% of the time for internal links. Trust people to use the back button.</div><div class="">4. Use a <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-seopress/" target="_blank" class="">simple SEO plugin</a> to improve your page descriptions in search engine results.</div><div class="">5. As others mentioned: backups and updates. They're simple enough to do yourself, or cheap enough to get someone to manage them for you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font class=""><span class="">Setting it up and moving your content over can be done in a few hours. A number of people on HT have lots of experience with this and could help out, myself included! Feel free to contact me directly if you want assistance</span></font><span style="" class="">.</span></div><div class=""><span style="" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font class=""><span class="">Greg</span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 26, 2020, at 4:50 PM, Roger Magnus via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank" class="">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi all, </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">I am long-time reader but first-time poster on this discussion list. </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">I am hoping to start a blog soon as I transition my business into a new area. I am trying to find a free or low-cost blogging platform that I can synch with my website domain, <a href="http://rogermagnusresearch.com/" target="_blank" class="">rogermagnusresearch.com</a>. Does anyone have any suggestions? I realize my website is very simple and I hope to upgrade it eventually as I have more clients. </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Also, I want to sign up clients to the blog and wonder about Jotform to capture a name and email address. One thing I like about it is it replies with a thank you message when someone signs up. Is that something you would recommend, something else, or is a link to my email sufficient? </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Many thanks!</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Best, </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Roger </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" class=""><div class="">Roger Magnus</div><div class="">Roger Magnus Research</div><div class="">Amherst, MA 01002</div><div class="">Phone/Text: 413-687-8466</div><div class="">Web: <a href="http://www.rogermagnusresearch.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">http://www.rogermagnusresearch.com</a> </div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: <a href="http://www.hidden-tech.net/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.hidden-tech.net</a><br class=""><a href="mailto:Hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank" class="">Hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a><br class=""><br class="">You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list.<br class="">If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members<br class="">page on the Hidden Tech Web site.<br class=""><a href="http://www.hidden-tech.net/members" target="_blank" class="">http://www.hidden-tech.net/members</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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