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

October 5, 2015 by HighNoteDesigns 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 HighNoteDesigns 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 HighNoteDesigns 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!

Welcome to the High Note Designs Blog!

July 22, 2015 by HighNoteDesigns Leave a Comment

Welcome!

I have wanted to start a blog on my design site for a long time. However, life gets in the way and things we want to do get pushed to the back burner. Like explore your city, or even get a hair cut. Am I right?

In the coming weeks I hope to share with you solutions to some of my clients’ questions and challenges with being a website and blog owner on WordPress. If there are any topics you’d love for me to write about, please do not hesitate to contact me.

I can’t wait to share with you what I’ve learned, and help you grow your site!