I’m starting a new category today: “How To.” It’s the little stuff I see and learn that I think you might like to see or learn. It might be a spelling error I see from even the top sites, a bit of punctuation that will make your site look more professional, a little trick I learned on a program most of us use, or a little tool I found that makes my life easier and might do the same for you. In other words, the kind of stuff I do for my clients.
Since you know how I am—I can talk faster and longer than your average person, I’ll put the How To at the beginning and follow it with the amazingly witty bits and pieces you know you can count on from me.
Some of this stuff may look silly and unnecessary but trust me when I tell you that the spelling and punctuation stuff is very important. When I look at a site for someone who gives the appearance that they have someone proofread their work for them and then I count one error per paragraph—or sometimes even one or more per line, I pretty well know they’re trying to do something themselves that they don’t know how to do and if they don’t know how to do that, do they really know how to do what they say they can? Unfair? Sure! I mean, really, do I know how to take care of my (or your) tax accounting? No. I leave that to a fabulous tax accountant. This is what I do best. If that’s the case, wouldn’t the converse apply? If you’re a tax accountant, why should you need to know all the ins and outs of spelling and punctuation? Well, life’s not always fair, is it? Rats!
Virtual Internet Professionals to the rescue. I’ll give you little bits and pieces you need to help you on your way.
Look for these little tidbits coming your way. Actually, there may be a flurry of them since I want to keep one per post and I have quite a few right off the top of my head.
One more note: I use a lot of little memory hints when I’m trying to remember something. It’s a bit like the way I recently saw someone helping a child learn which was his left hand. She told him that the hand that could make a capital “L” was his left hand. I still use some of these old memory and mnemonic devices today, even if it’s just to double check myself. For instance, I still remind myself that the school principal is our “pal.” Not the greatest image when I was still in school but it was how I used to remember the difference between principle and principal. I’ll give you little memory ticklers for as many of these as I can, just so you can have them if you find them helpful.
Right now I’m going to get back to site building and taking care of my clients.
