Our Sisters: Parenting Special Needs Going Green Books Giveaways

Enjoy "Stars on Ice" with your Family

NBC Airdate:
January 4, 2009
4 - 6 p.m. EST
Check your local listings!

And... Smuckers is offering a chance to win tickets to an all-expense paid trip to a city to see "Stars on Ice" in 2009.

July 17, 2007

Tackle It Tuesday — Site Stuff

Written by Susan

Click here to get the banner code and start tackling.

Well Janice is now home, but she is definitely not in tackling form…

She returned home from her trip exhausted, drowning in dirty laundry and countless emails behind. ‘Overwhelmed’ hardly even does her mood justice. Alas, we’re left to tackle again on our own.

As you can see, much of my last week was spent working with our web designer to revamp “5 Minutes for Mom”. And I’m not yet done. Our patient artist has skillfully completed her tasks, but I still have some loose ends to clean up.

I still have to:

Fix some navigation issues and add a few more page links. We still need to add more links to our feature columns section and other pages.
I want to try to hyper link the words in the header “Win A Contest”, “Make Blogging Friends” and “Promote Your Site”. This would be a image map in html, but this template uses css, so I have to figure out if I can make it work. I may not be able to… but I need to try more. (I’ll likely enlist hubby to help on this one.)
Research more spam guard solutions. We are being bombarded with thousands of spam and although we’re using Akisimet and HashCash, the spam is still getting through by the hundreds.
Update our Special Discounts page and figure out where to put a link to it in our new design. (It’s so hard to find places to link to everything without making the site cluttered and overwhelming.)
Fix a bug in our layout where the sidebars are not displaying properly in IE 6. (Again, I’ll likely enlist hubby to help on this one.)
Put our blogroll back on the site. We’ve had a tough time trying to decide what to do with the blog links that used to be in our sidebar… and we think we’re going to add a separate page for those blogroll links. It’s tough because there are so many hundreds of blogs that we want to list front and center on our homepage but there just isn’t enough room.
Instead we want to focus more attention on Our Readers’ Blogs to try to promote all blogs equally. The list that was on our previous home page are of some sites that we exchanged links with a long time ago as well as some of the bloggers that we read most often.

So we think the best thing is to add them to a separate page… which is something I still need to do.
Oh no… I just noticed that our Mr Linky isn’t working now in this new upgrade. Sigh… I’ll try to fix that now.
UPDATE — Okay I just went to Mr Linky and got the new code from the Widget Wizard. The wizard was really cool and easy… and it even had an option to select “Tackle It Tuesday” as the meme. Pretty cool… even Mr Linky knows about our little meme.

So I guess we’ll see if I’ve implemented this new Mr Linky correctly. Please let us know if you have any issues with it.

All of this is not even to mention the work of responding to the hundreds of emails requesting site listings that are flagged and waiting for me to respond.

We’ve actually now been slowed down even further with adding listings to our directories.

For the last few months, we’ve been extremely backlogged with more listing submissions than we can keep up with… but we were slowing working through the backlog. But then… unfortunately, this week as a necessary step to improve the performance of our site, we had to upgrade to PHP 5 and Wordpress 2.2.1. The upgrade broke our current script that helped automate some of the steps to publish the listings.

Our new updated program which will work with the new versions and will offer the ability for folks to update their published listings won’t be ready for another couple weeks. (My husband is programming it for us and he only gets a couple hours in the evenings to work on it… and it is a huge job.)

So, today I sent an email out to all the people who’ve submitted their listing, but are still waiting to be published. Now I still need to email all the hundreds of folks who have requested a site listing and haven’t yet heard anything from us. The real drag of it is that I will need to email them and tell them I’ll have to get back to them once the program is ready… so it doesn’t really even move me ahead. sigh.

Anyway… those are a few of the things I need to do on the site in the next week.

What about you… what pile of work are your plowing through?

————–

Remember if your next tackle is a tough one… You can Ask Our Organizer Jessica for advice.

She’s a professional organizer and we’re fortunate to have her write a monthly “Ask The Organizer” column here on “5 Minutes for Mom”.

————–

Join Us For Tackle It Tuesday

We’re making housework blog-able!

Each week on Tuesday, we are posting before and after pictures of a project or trouble area that we tackled this week.

Find out more about Tackle It Tuesday here.

The project can be little or big – whatever you want. Basically, Tackle It Tuesday is about giving ourselves incentive, deadlines and satisfaction in getting our household tasks done. (It doesn’t even have to be housework… just whatever is on your To Do list.)

If you tackled a project this week, just add a comment and add your link below.

Filed under Daily Life, Tackle It Tuesday by Susan

Thank you soooooooooo much for sharing this post! (ps. Kirtsy and StumbleUpon are our favorites)

del.icio.us Digg StumbleUpon Facebook Furl Google Reddit Technorati Twitter Help

Permalink Print Comment

Trackback URI

http://www.5minutesformom.com/1981/tt-site-stuff/trackback/

33 Comments on Tackle It Tuesday — Site Stuff »

July 17, 2007

#1 - Irreverent, Barefoot Ragamuffins @ 12:28 am

Woohoo! I am first! Do I get extra kudos for beign the first to report I didn’t get to everything on my list from last week? lol

July 17, 2007

Tackle It Tuesday — Site Stuff

Thank you soooooooooo much for sharing this post! (ps. Kirtsy and StumbleUpon are our favorites)

Trackback URI

33 Comments on Tackle It Tuesday — Site Stuff »

#1 - Irreverent, Barefoot Ragamuffins @ 12:28 am

#2 - Crystal @ 12:36 am

#3 - Tasra Dawson @ 12:44 am

#4 - Laura @ 1:35 am

#5 - jen @ 1:46 am

#6 - tanyetta @ 1:49 am

#7 - misslionheart @ 5:50 am

#8 - Karen @ 6:29 am

#9 - Debi @ 8:06 am

#10 - Candace Jeancake @ 8:31 am

#11 - AnneMarieZ @ 8:57 am

#12 - jenny® @ 8:57 am

#13 - Shera @ A Frog In My Soup @ 9:31 am

#14 - Lauren @ 9:35 am

#15 - Jen@DoesThisMakeMeLookFat @ 9:43 am

#16 - Candi @ 10:16 am

#17 - Karen@FamilyBriefs @ 10:25 am

#18 - summershine @ 10:38 am

#19 - Crissybug @ 11:03 am

#20 - Twisted Cinderella @ 12:07 pm

#21 - Erin @ 12:27 pm

#22 - Faerylandmom @ 12:38 pm

#23 - Lori - Queen of Dirty Laundry @ 1:50 pm

#24 - melody is slurping life @ 2:36 pm

#25 - Lynnae @ 3:16 pm

#26 - Lynnae @ 3:18 pm

#27 - Jen @ 4:11 pm

#28 - devildogwife @ 4:20 pm

#29 - Dawn @ 5:07 pm

#30 - Sara @ 5:34 pm

#31 - Lisa @ 6:22 pm

#32 - Dani @ 7:40 pm

#33 - Shari @ 12:25 am

Leave a Comment

Janice & Susan

Newsletter

RSS Feed

Email Updates

Our Podcasts

Please Visit Our Sponsors

Syndicate

Start Here

Don't miss out on the fun at 5 Minutes for Giveaways!

Follow Jennifer's Journey To The Dominican Republic

Recent Posts

The Twins Twitter

The Sisters

Categories

Archives

Recent Comments

Subscribe to Feed