I recently created a email campaign with MailChimp. In order to go over the opening matrix with others I needed to print it I could download the CSV, but I when I opened it in Excel it wasn’t delimited.
The following article quickly help me import the CSV into to Excel and set up the delimiter.
Convert CSV to Excel: how to import CSV files into Excel spreadsheets
I hope this helps someone else out there….
I found an interesting read about LESS and SASS. I am little behind the times on this, but I think this article is a good start.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
I have a Win 7 pro licensed version. I wanted to make the July 29, 2016 deadline for free upgrade to Win 10. I didn’t want to loose my Win 7 configured drive yet. I purchased a inexpensive 250 Gig Solid State Drive for $65.00.
I unplugged the old drive. Plug the new one in. Put the Downloaded ISO disk of Windows 10 in the blue-ray drive. It found the drive and started the boot on the DVD. I had to partition the drive and format. During the install I was asked for the product key and I input my Win 7 pro product key. That was it.
It took about 10 minutes to install. After that I booted it booted to Win 10 and all was good.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
Here I am last minute trying to download and burn an ISO of Windows 10 before the free upgrade is over. I started the download of the MediaCreationTool. Looked like it was going to work fine, but I got the following error 8x800704DD – 0x90016
I am logged in as a user but ran the MediaCreationTool as an administrator.
Well that wasn’t good enough. I switched user to my Administrator account and everything download fine.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
We have client that we recently moved their email from Godaddy POP account to a Microsoft 365 exchange account. A week later her Outlook email client was flashing the text “there are more items in this folder on the server”.
I quick search lead me to the following video on the old YouTube that totally resolved the issue. Which was to uncheck the Offline Caching.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
I love chronoforms and wondered about reading and displaying the data in such a powerful way. I looked at chronoconnectivity many times but quickly got discouraged.
I found simply going through their FAQ was a great start.
https://www.chronoengine.com/faqs/72-ccv5.html
Next I found the following walk through which were the next steps I was looking for and beyond.
http://www.icagenda.it/chronoforms-and-chronoconnectivity-tutorials-and-guides.html
I hope this helps someone else out there….
I am close releasing a new site this week when I get the notification that verion 3.6 is available. It feels like the last thing I needed when I am so close. This site has been a bit troublesome.
I was using a Themeforest template and the site was pretty slow. We are talking about 6 second page load times. I installed JCH Optimize and got the page load times down to about 4 seconds. I enabled page caching and got the page load times down to 2 seconds.
I was nervous as to what upgrading was going to do, but after the upgrade I swear the site overall is working quicker than ever before. If your worried about upgrading I wouldn’t be.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
I have been getting helpful emails from Dart Creations about speeding up page load times with my Joomla sites.
Google has a page for testing page speeds and gives recommendations.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Lesson 1: Turn on Joomla Cache – page caching
Lesson 2: Enable browser caching – browser caching
Lesson 3: Enable GZip Compression – GZip compression
Lesson 4: Reduce / Compress Joomla images – compress images
Lesson 5: Disable or remove unused plug-ins and Modules – disable plugins
Lesson 6: Try using JCH Optimize plugin – JCH Optimize
Lesson 7: Content Delivery Network – CDN
Your website can be given the ultimate speed boost by reducing the distance your content has to travel to reach its visitor. A Content Delivery Network (or CDN) delivers the heavy content of your site from a location which is very close to them. This is a trick major websites like Facebook, YouTube, CNN and NetFlix use to make sure their sites are fast. Images, CSS files, JS files, video and other content will have to travel much less. It does make your website lightning fast.
Lesson 8: Put your site on a fast hosting platform – Hosting
Do yourself and (most of all) your website’s visitors a favour. Upgrade to a better hosting server. Get a faster website today. If you’re on a cheap plan – upgrade it.
Check out InMotion Hosting now. Or if you really love your website, go for a Virtual Private Server. They offer free transfers, so you don’t have to worry about down time or moving your site. It’s just plug and play.
Lesson 9: Use system fonts – This method was given to me by Bmorecreative, inc. They suggested the following article:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/using-system-ui-fonts-practical-guide/
Lesson 10: Optimizing images – Optimize Images
I am also using a Joomart Template that uses the T3 framework, and here is a link that shows how to compress the CSS and JS files.
https://www.joomlart.com/video-tutorials/t3-framework/optimize-css-and-js
Theme Expert – has sent out a article on how they perfer to speed things up. I like the details the put into the article. Speeding up page load times without an additional plug-in.
https://www.themexpert.com/blog/the-beginners-guide-to-joomla-caching
I hope this helps someone else out there…
I was getting the error “this-email-address-is-being-protected-from-spambots-you-need-javascript-enabled-to-view-it”.
I disable “email cloaking” in the plugins and that fixed the issue.
In my research I found the article to disable on “In-Motions” website.
In the comments section a user suggested No-Number or Regular Labs version. I love their other products so I thought I would list it
https://www.regularlabs.com/extensions/emailprotector
I hope this helps some one else out there…
Using Chrome and the “Network” tab we were able to determine page load times. My friend quickly pointed out that I had fonts and CSS that I may not have to load.
We found that we could comment out a few lines in the XML.
