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High Note Designs Gets a Facelift

June 10, 2019 by Lisette Harrington Leave a Comment

feminine desktop with High Note Designs site on Mac monitor

Hi friends. It’s Lisette here, hoping to keep it very short and sweet. (But I tend to be very colorful with my story-telling so I never quite know how much I’ll write, but I’ll TRY to keep it short). It’s been quite a while since I’ve written a blog post on High Note Designs and I wanted to pop in to say ‘hey girlfriend.’

A lot has happened on High Note Designs since that last post. For starters, we’re looking quite a bit spiffier these days. Is “spiffier” a word? Let’s roll with it.

Before, I used to write a lot about WordPress matters on my personal site, La La Lisette. Looking back, while it did help a lot of people, it didn’t make sense to publish tons of technical content on a lifestyle blog. Live and learn, right?

Helping people has always been at my core. It’s why I’ve chosen to also educate about safer beauty, safer personal care products, and safer cleaning products over on La La Lisette.

But I want to continue helping fellow bloggers and entrepreneurs with technical “stuff” here on High Note Designs. You may have noticed that I now offer Website Maintenance Packages. I created these for the hard-working entrepreneurs who just don’t have the time to figure out what went wrong, much less how to fix it.

Website got you down? I’m your girl.

However, High Note Designs, LLC has stayed true to its roots. I will always be here to help you make your website gorgeous, and my passion for Blogger to WordPress migrations will never go away. I want you to have all the benefits of WordPress without the headache of making it over here.

Please feel free to shoot me an e-mail with how I can help you. There’s no such thing as a “dumb question.” I’d be more than happy to expound on an explanation with lots of pictures and diagrams. Because, chances are, if you’re wondering something…someone else is also wondering the same thing. If I help just one person? That’s swell. But if I help several people by answering your small question? That, my friend, is gold.

Friend, thanks so much for stopping by. And, please, let me know how I can help you start your brand on a high note.

I Like the Way You Work It | iPhone 6s freebie

October 5, 2015 by Lisette Harrington Leave a Comment

This weekend I received the iPhone 6S as a gift from my husband. I’ve been holding out for a bigger screen for two years and I finally got one! All the rose gold ones were sold out, unfortunately, but I’m so thankful for a bigger screen!

That being said, it was about time to dress my tech up with a little something-something. I think my subconscious is telling me I need to watch Pitch Perfect again, as I have Dr. Dre stuck in my head. That has got to be one of my favorite scenes. And so the inspiration for this freebie was born. #nodiggity

See the table below for your freebie, and if you post to social media, please tag me at @nbellediaries or use hashtag #highnotedesigns. You are free to download for personal use, but please do not share the image on your sites and link back to here instead. Thank you!

Enjoy your week!

iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s

iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6S Plus

iPads

How to Fix the Googlebot CSS and JS Problem in robots.txt

August 1, 2015 by Lisette Harrington 1 Comment

One of the many responsibilities that falls on bloggers and website owners is search engine optimization (SEO) other related chores, such as ensuring search engines can easily read your site. Recently, Google Webmaster Tools sent out notices to thousands of site owners across several platforms informing them that there was a Googlebot CSS and JS problem in their site’s robots.txt file. Fix it, or the Google would be angry. In other terms, Google updated the rules of the game (again) and needed their robots to crawl more items in your site.

Google systems have recently detected an issue with your homepage that affects how well our algorithms render and index your content. Specifically, Googlebot cannot access your JavaScript and/or CSS files because of restrictions in your robots.txt file. These files help Google understand that your website works properly so blocking access to these assets can result in suboptimal rankings.

I’m sure you’re thinking, “What? I have robots on my site? And they crawl?”

How to Give Your Designer Access to your Site Without Sharing Your Login Info

July 27, 2015 by Lisette Harrington 1 Comment

When you work with website designers and developers, you are entering a relationship built on trust. For that reason, I prefer that my clients not send me their login information via e-mail. I prefer for them to add me as an administrator on their site, and once I’m done with our project, they can revoke my admin access and retain full security over their site.

Today I will walk us through the steps on how to grant your designer (or developer) admin access to your site without revealing your personal login on both the Blogger platform and the WordPress.org platform.

Blogger

Step 1.

In your Blogger dashboard, go to Settings > Basic > Permissions.

Click on the +Add authors link. Enter your designer’s e-mail address into the field and click on the orange Invite authors button.

For illustration purposes, let’s just make believe that I’m not already an author on my site :)

Step 2.

Your designer will receive an e-mail invitation to become an author on your site. Once they do, they will appear on Blogger as “Author” to let you know that they’ve accepted.

Go back to this same screen and update the role from Author to Admin using the dropdown menu.

That’s all there is to it!

WordPress

Step 1.

In your WordPress.org site, go to Users > Add New

Step 2.

Fill out all the required fields with your designer or developer’s information.

Make sure you check the “Send Password?” box to ensure your designer receives this information. Remember, you will be deleting this account after your designer is done with the changes you’ve hired her to do.

A word on passwords: please never use passwords as predictable as password1234 or any variation of this combination as there are people out there counting on this as a possible way to hack your site!

That’s it!

Do you have questions on other designer-related topics? Let me know in the comments below!