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Mobilizing your site…

By
Wilco
– March 21, 2011Posted in: Tech Support and How to

Well there are a couple of ways to do this that are pretty straight forward and easy. One is using the carrington mobile plugin in wordpress, but dang if you install the plugin from wordpress you can’t or I can’t find the instructions to save my life, so therefore here are the installation instructions in brief so I will remember without pulling out my 40 year old (it is more precious that it used to be) hair! Disclaimer here: I didn’t write the Crowd Favorite and I don’t support it, be happy to write you one, tweak your version or something else, but that’d cost you, maybe not much, but probably not for free! I just put this for my own selfish memory reasons…

== Installation == (link to their readme.txt file) or AlexKing

1. Drop the wp-mobile.php file in your wp-content/plugins directory
2. Drop the carrington-mobile-(version #) directory in your wp-content/themes directory
3. Click the ‘Activate’ link for WordPress Mobile Edition on your Plugins page (in the WordPress admin interface)

Below this I created my own mobile redirect which works like a champ, but it requires a whole lot of work in a different sort of way, yet allow complete or more complete control. The Mike Industries Mobilize Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes, well I never got it to work and apparently it gets a lot of traffic and there is no support!

Below is the nifty code you need to insert at the very top of your index page or include it prior to any html or anything else on the page and you will need to set up the new mobile page you are sending them to. usually make that page to be 320px wide max and set that in the meta as well as the body tags.

something like this on the landing page mobile.php in the

<head>

<meta content=”width=320, user-scalable=no” name=”mobileview”>

</head>

<body>

<div id=”mobile” style=”width:320px; border:#3F0079 thin solid;”>

your content goes here!

</div>



<?PHP

$mobile_browser = '0';

IF(PREG_MATCH('/(up.browser|up.link|mmp|symbian|smartphone|midp|wap|phone|iPhone|iPad)/i',
STRTOLOWER($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))){
$mobile_browser++;
}

IF((STRPOS(STRTOLOWER($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']),'application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml')>0) or
((ISSET($_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE']) or ISSET($_SERVER['HTTP_PROFILE'])))){
$mobile_browser++;
}

$mobile_ua = STRTOLOWER(SUBSTR($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],0,4));
$mobile_agents = ARRAY(
'w3c ','acs-','alav','alca','amoi','audi','avan','benq','bird','blac',
'blaz','brew','cell','cldc','cmd-','dang','doco','eric','hipt','inno',
'ipaq','java','jigs','kddi','keji','leno','lg-c','lg-d','lg-g','lge-',
'maui','maxo','midp','mits','mmef','mobi','mot-','moto','mwbp','nec-',
'newt','noki','oper','palm','pana','pant','phil','play','port','prox',
'qwap','sage','sams','sany','sch-','sec-','send','seri','sgh-','shar',
'sie-','siem','smal','smar','sony','sph-','symb','t-mo','teli','tim-',
'tosh','tsm-','upg1','upsi','vk-v','voda','wap-','wapa','wapi','wapp',
'wapr','webc','winw','winw','xda','xda-','gecko','iPad','iPhone');

IF(IN_ARRAY($mobile_ua,$mobile_agents)){
$mobile_browser++;
}
IF (STRPOS(STRTOLOWER($_SERVER['ALL_HTTP']),'OperaMini')>0) {
$mobile_browser++;
}
IF (STRPOS(STRTOLOWER($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']),'windows')>0) {
$mobile_browser=0;
}

IF($mobile_browser>0){
// do something
header( 'Location: http://yourwebsite.com/mobile.php' ) ; //this is where you are sending them
} ELSE {
// do something else here if you want
}
?>
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The Newest Adverting Medium!

By
Wilco
– February 8, 2011Posted in: Ad Worthy

Say goodbye to those squiggly words or random letters you type to verify you are a human…two companies, Solve Media and NuCaptcha, are creating the ads, requiring users to type in an ad’s slogan or sales pitch, or watch a video advertisement before entering a word or phrase.

captcha example

This is an Example of CAPTCHA

Still wonder what the heck captcha is?  Here is an example…

The new ads first appeared online last fall. Solve Media’s clients include Microsoft, Universal Studios and Toyota, while NuCaptcha has created advertisements for Activision and Disney.

Hey how else can you guarantee a read of a slogan and then make sure the reader actually read it?  Well this seems pretty fool proof, I don’t get to login in unless I read and respond?!

Read more…

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Twitter Widget for your site

By
Wilco
– January 27, 2011Posted in: Tech Support and How to
Operator Finds tweets…
twitter search containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator.
“happy hour“ containing the exact phrase “happy hour”.
love OR hate containing either “love” or “hate” (or both).
beer -root containing “beer” but not “root”.
#haiku containing the hashtag “haiku”.
from:alexiskold sent from person “alexiskold”.
to:techcrunch sent to person “techcrunch”.
@mashable referencing person “mashable”.
“happy hour” near:“san francisco” containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”.
near:NYC within:15mi sent within 15 miles of “NYC”.
superhero since:2011-01-26 containing “superhero” and sent since date “2011-01-26″ (year-month-day).
ftw until:2011-01-26 containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2011-01-26″.
movie -scary :) containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude.
flight :( containing “flight” and with a negative attitude.
traffic ? containing “traffic” and asking a question.
hilarious filter:links containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs.
news source:twitterfeed containing “news” and entered via TwitterFeed
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“the New Site”!

By
Wilco
– January 13, 2011Posted in: Exclude from Home Page, Wilco

Well today we released our new site!  It’s up, it works, and we are trying to get our content up to date!  Hang with us, we’ll be there pretty quick, right now we’re busy working for you…so we can pay for this new site.

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How to configure Internet e-mail accounts in Outlook 2007

By
Wilco
– January 13, 2011Posted in: Tech Support and How to
Outlook 2007

Outlook 2007

Below are instructions on how to set up a pop account in Outlook 2007.  Click on the link to view instruction.

Here are some other links that go over the same stuff:

These and many more instructions on VxDomain.com How to setup mail in Outlook ALL versions

Microsoft site

  • In the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) box, type the name of the outgoing e-mail server. Type the server name in lowercase letters. The name may be in the form of “mail.contoso.com.” Or, the name may be in the form of an IP address, such as 172.12.0.0.
  • If you clicked HTTP in the Account Type box, follow these steps:
    1. In the HTTP Service Provider box, click the appropriate service provider for this account. For example, click one of the following:
      • Hotmail
      • MSN
      • Other
    2. If you clicked Other in the HTTP Service Provider box, type the URL to the mailbox in the Server URL box.
  • Under Logon Information, follow these steps:
    1. In the User Name box, type your user name. The user name is usually the part of your e-mail address to the left of the at sign (@).
    2. In the Password box, type the password that your ISP provided.
    3. If you want Outlook to remember your e-mail account password, click to select the Remember password check box.
  • If your ISP requires it, click to select the Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) check box to log on by using Secure Password Authentication.
  • Click Test Account Settings. This feature calls a dialog box that displays, in a step-by-step manner, each phase of the testing of the configuration that you entered. When you click Test Account Settings, the following process occurs:
    • The connectivity of the system to the Internet is confirmed.
    • You are logged on to the SMTP server.
    • You are logged on to the POP3 server.
    • It is determined whether the POP3 server must be logged on to first. If it is required, Outlook automatically sets the Log on to incoming mail server before sending mail option.
    • A test message is sent. This message explains any changes that Outlook made to the initial setup.
  • If you want to modify your e-mail account any more, click More Settings to open the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.
  • Click Next, and then click Finish.
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    Only giving links to subscribers

    By
    Wilco
    – January 13, 2011Posted in: CMS, Wordpress

    Authorized Users OnlyI had a client ask me if they could lock people out of certain pages unless they were a subscriber so it came to me today…a solution.  If they are a subscriber to the blog and a feed you don’t give them access to the page unless they are logged in.  They can log in unless they are subscribed.

    The issue is they have user subscribed to several different blogs, hosted as separate blogs, so the trick is to see if we can consolidate

    • users
    • blogs

    yet keep them as appearing seperate in the sense of if I end up at site 1 I may and may not care about site 2, 3, 4, etc.  so they have to exist together yet seperate.  The beauty of this is you get a wide swath or foot print on the web, so the web loves you or should I say google gives you some love for content.  You are getting :

    • constant ‘fresh’ content somewhere on your site,
    • you have links to the other sites
    • your site is seen as a ‘big site’
    • and your other sites are seen as separate (I always mispell sep-a-rate, thank goodness for spell check) if you set up your domains correctly and they will help you in your cross links

    Now the trick is:

    • getting all the posts together that are currently spread out,
    • get the users subscribed one place (factoring in they are using a email marketing service that has nothing to do with the blog or the site i.e. 3rd party)

    I will update as to how it works.

    some fun reading I will use… get user data function

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    Wilco Advertising a Full Service Ad Agency

    By
    Wilco
    – October 1, 1993Posted in: Uncategorized

    Wilco Advertising is located in Southlake, Texas and we have been using innovation and results driven solutions to bring value to our clients throughout the United States since 1994. We are currently updating our site so if you would like more information contact us via email or on our contact page.

    If you want to expand your audience & your market let us show you how!

    We Specialize in the following areas:

    • Television & Radio – we can provide you with a turnkey solution for Television & Radio; Production, Direction, Editing, & Spot Placement.
    • Truckside & Specialty Advertising – we were one of the first companies to introduce and pioneer truckside advertising back in 2000 & 2001.
    • Web Design & Search Engine Optimization + eCommerce – our clients are consistently in the top 3-5 organic resutls for their keywords. We build functional websites that allow you to manage your own content or we can manage it for you. View Portfolio
    • Specility Advertising - We also handle marketing in print, video, radio, TV, internet, direct mail, specialty & accessories or clothing as well as mobile ads or outdoor.