1. Place all relevant images into a new folder.
2. Open that folder and select all of the images (command + A) and double click on one of the selected images.
3. This will open Preview and all images will show along the right side of the application.
4. Click on one of the images and do another select all (command + A)
5. Under the Tools menu, click on Adjust Size.
6. Here you can designate the width and height of each image.  There are some standard options to choose from as well as the ability to determine your own size.
7. You’re done.  Now all images in that folder will be in the new customized size.

It may be a good idea to make a copy of the images folder before you make this change, just so you have the originals if you ever need them.

I need to give credit here to Josh Winkles for teaching me know how to do this.

GoDaddy
GoDaddy.com
GoDaddy is my favorite hosting company out there. Their customer service is excellent (I have called a lot), their prices are competitive, and they make things very easy for web developers. My only real complaint (other than their trashy advertising) is that some of my clients have experiences brief down times of their websites as GoDaddy’s servers go down. This is extremely rare though and I haven’t seen this happen in the last 4 months.

GoDaddy’s customer service is fast and they usually provide the answer that I need. The representatives are based out of the USA. For prices, type in “GoDaddy Promo Codes” into Google and you will find an array of price-saving coupons. And for making things easy, they have hosting products specific to WordPress where you really don’t need to know anything about setting up a WordPress site to be up and running in no time.

Hostway
http://www.hostway.com/
I have used Hostway hosting for a number of sites. Overall, this is a pretty good company. They have just upgraded their user interface design to make their site easier to navigate. One time, I needed to upgrade to the latest version of PHP, and they were helpful in making that happen. It seems as though every time I have called Hostway, I am connected to a representative in India. At times, there has been a small language or understanding barrier, but overall, their representatives are very knowledgeable and helpful.

Register.com
http://www.register.com/
I don’t have one nice thing to say about Register.com. They are more expensive than the competition and their customer service is horrendous. During a recent problem I had on one of my client’s sites, I called Register.com 8 times. Of those 8 calls, the representative got my phone number and said they would call me back within 2 hours. I only received 1 call back out of those 8 promises.

Recently, Register.com attempted to move one of my sites from one hosting area to another. They promised they could make this happen. Turns out, their tech team couldn’t do it and my site ended up being down for a whole week. During this process, they forgot to move the SSL certificate I had with the website and so a few weeks later, my site was down 4 days again while they fixed that. They also tried to get me to pay for their mistake.

Register.com’s support staff is based out of Nova Scotia I believe. They are an hour ahead of Eastern Time. I have probably spoken to half of their support staff by this point and have only been impressed by a few of them.

Overall, you are not getting your moneys worth with Register.com. If I can help it, I don’t ever plan to use them again. They have caused me enormous stress and anguish.

I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on different hosting companies in the comment box below.

The solution actually ended up being frustratingly easy. Here it is:

• Even if your Gmail account email address is all lowercase (your.email@gmail.com), your analytics account may be set up as both upper & lowercase (Your.Email@gmail.com).
• If your Google Analytics account is a mix of both upper and lowercase, and you try to receive access to someone’s account, it will not work, it must match exactly.
• The way to check this is to sign into your Google Analytics profile – www.google.com/analytics
• Click on Settings in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
• On the next page, you will see the email address as Google Analytics sees it.
• This is the email address to provide someone who is attempting to give you access to view their website analytics.

If you have any trouble, let me know in the comment box below.

Website Link:
http://www.vhsbackup.com/

Date Launched:
June 2010

Design / Development Notes:
WordPress, HTML, CSS, PHP

Website Notes:
This is a very simple one page website I put together to build a VHS to DVD portion of my business. My goal is to get clients who need to digitize their content to protect their collection and save it for future generations.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickftp/id364306378?mt=8

I had held off on getting an iPad because I really wouldn’t be able to do a lot of my work on the device. But with this iPhone app, I can now access all of my sites and make changes to the files. I can now justify an iPad purchase. Thanks guys!

It is nice to think about the day when no one will use IE6 anymore, but when I look at website analytics, an astonishing number of people still use IE6.  I think they purchased a PC 5 years ago and never upgraded their browser edition, even though IE 8 & 9 are available.

This problem in IE6 is particularly apparent when using DIV tags to design your website.

Below are a few tricks for making sure your page looks the same in IE6:

• First of all, if you have spaced out your DIVs across the page, but IE6 pushes them down, an easy fix is to float the div to the left (float: left;) and to set the display to inline (display:inline;).
• Secondly, IE6 reads code starting with an underscore, so say you have the following margin written in your CSS file (margin: 0px 10px 3px 15px).  If IE6 is showing the Left margin incorrectly, you could add a second line to the CSS for that particular DIV tag that goes like this (_margin: 0px 10px 3px 0px).

Some of this is honestly trial and error until you discover the way to make your website look the same in IE6 as Firefox.  As you experiment more and more, you will begin to see how IE6 distorts your page and will know ways to combat this for your future sites.

Here is a good site to learn how IE6 reads Floats, Margins, & Padding – http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/floatIndent.html

Website Link:
http://www.glsullivan.com/

Date Launched:
May 2010

Design / Development Notes:
WordPress, HTML, CSS, PHP

What I Learned:
I created a simple option for clients to pay directly through the website. The client has a specific area in which to add recent news that automatically updates on the home page.

The common color system used in building websites is the Hex Triplet, which is a 6 digit, 3-byte code that defines the red, green, and blue parts to a particular color.  Black is #000000, white is #FFFFFF, and #FF0000 is True Red.  To learn more, click here.

Here is a tool to pick colors for your website.  Once you have the color that you like, let me know the 6 digits after the # sign:

http://www.colorpicker.com/
Just move around the circle and the arrows on the side bar to get your desired color.

The foundation of The Entrepreneur School is to teach low-risk approaches to starting your own business.  The site consists of Modules that contain videos, slides, and text.  Each module covers a different topic, such as How to Export, How to Find Ideas, and How to Write a Business Plan.

The other major focus of The Entrepreneur School is dispelling myths that keep people from pursuing an idea.  These myths could be things like you need to have a lot of money, or you need to be super creative, or you need to be a big risk taker.  By countering these myths, The Entrepreneur School puts you in the right mindset for proceeding with your business idea without being hindered by doubts.

Please take a look at The Entrepreneur School.  You can watch the first Module videos for free and the rest of the modules can be accessed for just $29/month.

The way I fixed this was by going to the Settings for the SSG Google Audio Player and placing a check mark in the “Omit SWFObject in <head> section.”

Simple solution.

I looked all over for a solution and didn’t find anything.  Hope this helps out anyone else having the same trouble.