Comments on: Gotta have a Goal http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:39:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Zoe Winters http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/#comment-3105 Zoe Winters Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:42:58 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=1590#comment-3105 hehe, Robin. We are months away from T-shirt time. Gah, if you knew how much crap I put on my plate. Seriously, if I ate my to-do list, I'd be as big as a house. It's just a good thing I don't have a "real job." hahahahaha! I'll tell you what makes my brain do that ... PHP and Cascading style sheets. If you even BRING those things up, I start crying. Literal tears. That's why Tom is my tech guy, but mostly I use templates. hehe, Robin. We are months away from T-shirt time. Gah, if you knew how much crap I put on my plate. Seriously, if I ate my to-do list, I’d be as big as a house.

It’s just a good thing I don’t have a “real job.”

hahahahaha! I’ll tell you what makes my brain do that … PHP and Cascading style sheets. If you even BRING those things up, I start crying. Literal tears. That’s why Tom is my tech guy, but mostly I use templates.

]]> By: robinaltman http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/#comment-3104 robinaltman Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:25:57 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=1590#comment-3104 OMG! There's definitely a problem with my brain! I just read your answer to Spy's question, and I could hear the brain cells popping and dying. It does the same thing with financial matters. So sad. (But I could tell what "spidering" was by the name. If it were an S.A.T. question, I would have gotten it.) I think "Glance Askance" would be an awesome t shirt. You could have a person looking sideways in a disapproving kind of way. I'd buy it! People are always "glancing askance" at me! OMG! There’s definitely a problem with my brain! I just read your answer to Spy’s question, and I could hear the brain cells popping and dying. It does the same thing with financial matters. So sad. (But I could tell what “spidering” was by the name. If it were an S.A.T. question, I would have gotten it.)

I think “Glance Askance” would be an awesome t shirt. You could have a person looking sideways in a disapproving kind of way. I’d buy it! People are always “glancing askance” at me!

]]> By: zoewinters http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/#comment-3103 zoewinters Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:52:57 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=1590#comment-3103 Hey JVZ, you're totally right. This is very sound advice. I made my outline last night, and the two pages I did today I published. Tomorrow I'll go in and tweak them and then do the next two pages. I'm keeping up with where links need to be added as I get those pages up, via highlighted notes in a word document. (Actually an OpenOffice document) And big congrats on getting an About.com position. After awhile, those pay pretty well and they are very hard to get! Hey JVZ, you’re totally right. This is very sound advice. I made my outline last night, and the two pages I did today I published. Tomorrow I’ll go in and tweak them and then do the next two pages. I’m keeping up with where links need to be added as I get those pages up, via highlighted notes in a word document. (Actually an OpenOffice document)

And big congrats on getting an About.com position. After awhile, those pay pretty well and they are very hard to get!

]]> By: JVZ http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/#comment-3102 JVZ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:44:01 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=1590#comment-3102 My 2 cents for what it's worth ... do your site outline (loosely) and start publishing ASAP. I maintain a website for About.com, and yes, it's weird to build a website in "public," so to speak, but it's also crucial to get pages online as quickly as possible so you can begin to build an audience and begin to climb in rankings on the search engines. When I started, I had the same question: Why so fast? Why can't I write 50 pages or so, then publish? It seemed so embarrassing to have a site with one or two dinky pages at first. But I quickly saw the wisdom of my corporate overlords as I watched my PVs climb steadily as I steadily added pages to my site. Now, four months later, I still only have 45 pages or so, but I'm doing a few thousand PVs a day. If I had waited until I had all 45 pages written, then published all at once last week, I'd still be down at 150 PVs daily. It's all about traffic ... JVZ My 2 cents for what it’s worth … do your site outline (loosely) and start publishing ASAP. I maintain a website for About.com, and yes, it’s weird to build a website in “public,” so to speak, but it’s also crucial to get pages online as quickly as possible so you can begin to build an audience and begin to climb in rankings on the search engines. When I started, I had the same question: Why so fast? Why can’t I write 50 pages or so, then publish? It seemed so embarrassing to have a site with one or two dinky pages at first. But I quickly saw the wisdom of my corporate overlords as I watched my PVs climb steadily as I steadily added pages to my site. Now, four months later, I still only have 45 pages or so, but I’m doing a few thousand PVs a day. If I had waited until I had all 45 pages written, then published all at once last week, I’d still be down at 150 PVs daily. It’s all about traffic …

JVZ

]]> By: zoewinters http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/#comment-3101 zoewinters Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:49:38 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=1590#comment-3101 hahahahahahaha, Spy. Awwww. A 3-tier website is the best layout for a website to be properly organized and easily spidered. You have your main page, and then the pages you link to on your main page, in a navigation bar, those are your tier 2 pages. They serve as hubs that link to tier 3 pages also on your site, back to the home page, and to places off your site. Tier 3 pages are pages you get to through in text links on your tier 2 pages. I'm not sure if everybody calls it a 3 tier website, but that's how it works. When you start getting into 4th tier pages (pages on your site that you link to from your tier 3 pages, it gets hard to spider, and more annoying for your visitors.) hahahahahahaha, Spy.

Awwww.

A 3-tier website is the best layout for a website to be properly organized and easily spidered.

You have your main page, and then the pages you link to on your main page, in a navigation bar, those are your tier 2 pages. They serve as hubs that link to tier 3 pages also on your site, back to the home page, and to places off your site.

Tier 3 pages are pages you get to through in text links on your tier 2 pages.

I’m not sure if everybody calls it a 3 tier website, but that’s how it works.

When you start getting into 4th tier pages (pages on your site that you link to from your tier 3 pages, it gets hard to spider, and more annoying for your visitors.)

]]> By: spyscribbler http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/#comment-3100 spyscribbler Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:42:59 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=1590#comment-3100 HAH! Yeah, my blog would no longer be a writing blog; it would become an Obama blog until the day he was re-elected. Or else I'd quit writing and go into politics. What's a 3-tier website? HAH! Yeah, my blog would no longer be a writing blog; it would become an Obama blog until the day he was re-elected.

Or else I’d quit writing and go into politics.

What’s a 3-tier website?

]]> By: zoewinters http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/#comment-3099 zoewinters Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:54:15 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=1590#comment-3099 bwahahahahaha. MoJo. Do you hate glances askance cause it feels like a Dr. Seuss book? bwahahahahaha. MoJo.

Do you hate glances askance cause it feels like a Dr. Seuss book?

]]> By: MoJo http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/#comment-3098 MoJo Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:52:50 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=1590#comment-3098 I have to pick my kid up at kindergarten everyday. While I wouldn't mind wearing a "fuck stigma" shirt, I think the PTA might glance askance at me. And I hate glances askance. I have to pick my kid up at kindergarten everyday. While I wouldn’t mind wearing a “fuck stigma” shirt, I think the PTA might glance askance at me.

And I hate glances askance.

]]> By: zoewinters http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/#comment-3093 zoewinters Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:56:05 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=1590#comment-3093 Hehe yeah I'm not sure I need my shirts to say "fuck" hahaha. ;) Hehe yeah I’m not sure I need my shirts to say “fuck” hahaha. ;)

]]> By: R.J. Keller http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/gotta-have-a-goal/#comment-3092 R.J. Keller Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:39:06 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=1590#comment-3092 LOL. G'head. (Yeah, I suppose family-friendly is best...) LOL. G’head.
(Yeah, I suppose family-friendly is best…)

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