Just a couple things I learned this week

This has been a insanely busy week both on and off my website, It is also my daighters birthday weekend so I wont be getting much if anymore work done this weekend.

I did run across some issues though this week that I thought I would take some time to illustrate and hopfully save you some frustration.

You might remember last week I spent a lot of time familiarizing myself with my theme, I spent probably 2 days just editing things and playing around just to get a feel for what each little tweak changed and how it looked...I was very pleased with it.

Than one night I realized that I had been working on my computer and on a whim pulled it up on my smart phone so I could see how it looked ....I hated it.

My categories and side bar would not show and nothing I could do changed it so I spent hours and hours this week finding a new theme that worked well with mobile and setting it up just to find out it was showing my categories on the left and the right...again nothing I would do would get rid of the left area.

I contacted the theme creator and they told me that option was not availble but if I upgraded my account and paid 8.99 a month they could "customize "it so it can be removed

I obviously refused on priniciple and back to theme drawing board I went .......5 hours later I had a theme that worked well on my desktop and my phone that I was satisfied with.

There is still one tiny detail I dont love but I worked around and we will be going forward with it the way it is.

Moral of the story- check your theme and website setup on multiple devices.

In the mix of all this I took some my

site credits and used them for feedback, i dont typically do that because so many things are subjective I feel like what one person hates another will like

but

Site feedback caught

1.My ssl was broke and not working I had information icon instead of secure icon

2.The numbers for the list on 2 of my posts was missing 1....it was showing as little weird symbol than the next point went to 2. - I managed to fix this quickly and easily

3. One of the pictures I included had relevant text that was hard to read- This was also a easy fix

Moral of the story - use sitefeedback it is insanely useful.

The broken SSL I spent hours trying to fix searching help here, trying out websites,plugins quick fixes etc etc etc Than I got smart and contacted

site support who fixed it with ease.

Moral of the story- site support exists for a reason- use it.

So much time wasted this week on things I should have had figure out last week... but at least I know now and now you do too.

oh and I know this wont apply to everyone but I just found that you can buy credits for feedback and site comments so even though I plan on spending a hour or 2 here in the evnings commenting and earning I also plan on jump starting things by buying 200 credits ( 100 requests for feedback or comments).