Accountability Update (02-08-10)

Posted on 02. Aug, 2010 by Aaron in Accountability

Righto, a pretty non-descript start to the week as things goes. Kept battling away with my Dreamweaver problem, which was holding up my private work. In all my time I’ve never come across this problem until I worked it out finally.

Basically I wrapped a library item up in div tags when I should of left them out, this was causing the library system to get confused whenever I changed a url in that item and make it’s own url for the link, which was a real major pain in the arse as I’ve always used Dreamweaver library items over server side includes for creating sitewide menus on static sites.

On the plus side I got to try out Dreamweaver CS5 and thought it worth the extra expense as I’d been running MX for far too long now and it was getting a bit long in the tooth.

Some of the new features is CS5 really got me excited, a lot were productivity related where I don’t have to open a whole load of programs to develop a site, and when you’re charging a set hourly rate you come up with ingenious ways to streamline your productivity, if you’re not you should be.

One feature I’m really excited about is the connectivity with WordPress. I have made themes from scratch before but this knocks what I used to do right out of the park. Especially with the live code view, I think this and the graphic smart objects are going to be a major plus.

So in effect even though I had a pain of a problem, it actually came to a rather good conclusion.

Oh and it looks like I’m getting the PPC bug even more now, I still need to finish the training I was working on but we’ve now had what we’d get in a full 6 months worth of sales from SEO in 2 weeks for about $15 worth of clicks, if you’re wondering, yes it is profitable. Not to mention my click through rates are looking pretty good too.

Well time to wrap up for the week, just waiting now for that magic envelope or whatever you get sent from the HMRC to come though the post that says I’m officially a business, until then I’m still classed as an employee for the moment.