This is easy.  Deco Mobile now has a code you can place in the header section of your splash page that will automatically bring up your mobile website.

The code is:

<script language=javascript>
if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i)))
{
location.href=’http://YOUR URL/FOLDER NAME FOR YOUR mobilesite‘;
}
</script>

To put it in your FlashPalette website splash page you will have to do it manually, but it’s not hard.

1. Go to your My Documents/Flashpalette Website folder.

2. click on your index.html file in that folder.

3. For PC users right click and open with note pad, for mac users Control-Click on the file’s icon, then select text edit.

4. You will see a page of writing, look for the code htat says </HEAD>

5.  copy the code below to your index page placing it just before the </HEAD> tag.

<script language=javascript>
if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i)))
{
location.href=’http://YOUR URL/FOLDER NAME FOR YOUR mobilesite‘;
}
</script>

6. Change the line in red.   you will want it to have your URL and your folder name that you gave your mobile website.

7. Click save as — then save as index.html  We recommend you save it to a separate folder. This way your editor will not overwrite the changes you have made to the page when you update other parts of your website.

8. Load the new index.html page on your server, making sure to over-write the old file.

To start with make sure you do a backup.  I recommend using an online backup service. I use and love Backblaze.  They have fantastic support and their fee covers external drives (many do not).  SO I always start by reminding everyone to back up your website files, just as you should your regular files.

If you have had a computer crash you can find the steps to reload your website here.

This is easy to do and will require just a bit of time.  With FlashPalette websites we recommend that you use the html verification tool.

1. Sign up with Googles Webmaster Tools

2. Click on Add site

3. After you add your site click on Verify.

4. Select the HTML option

5. Download the html file Google has provided.

6. Load the File Google provides into your public_html folder on your server.

7. Go back and click Verify

8. After the code is loaded correctly you will see the statistics for your website show up.

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These are the two resources that Google has for you (if you have not signed up you should today).

The next is you want to write good text — and that requires the following:
1. Write clearly and keep your text to a minimum, you want your information to be easily found.

2. Make sure your images match you desciption of your style

3. EDIT EDIT EDIT — you need to make sure you avoid misspelled words and other errors.

Use colors that are pleasing and complimentary one of my favorite places to find color matches is kuler it’s a free site and I just love the various combinations of color that appear!

Then the rest is up to you — you need your site to reflect who you are as person and as a photographer.

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It’s actually really easy to figure out once you understand where to look.

You open your editor.

Then click on the website tab on the left.

Then you will see a spot on the right called base directory.

Your website is located in that base directory. (see below for an example).

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To start with all the templates have different requirements.

Standard and Mini Templates:

The standard and mini templates have fixed sizes on the images.  This means if you import an image that is bigger then the editor accepts the editor will automatically reszie the image.  So if you cropped your image in photoshop your image will be downsized again, which can result in pixelation.

The best practice is to start with the full resolution image and then crop your images to the editor size.  All sizes are also listed on the batch import button as well and are at 72DPI.

Mini Editors:

Note the Mini editor resize your images when imported.  For best results we always recommend you start with a full resolution image and crop it to the maximum size the editor will accept. You can also see the pixel size when you click on batch import to the editor.

The FlashPalette editors accept only the file format of MP3, so if you music is downloaded in another format you will need to convert it to a MP3 file.

The use of music is a personal choise. Some use it for the whole website, others use it in just their galleries.  However, one thing you need to be aware of is that you can not use just any music on your website .  Music, just like images, is copyrighted.  Even though you may purchase a song from I-Tunes that does not give you the right to use the music on a website or in a slideshow.   You need to have permission from the song’s creator to do this.  The best bet is to use royalty free music on your website.

Here are some of our favorite places to get Royaly Free Music:

1. Find up and coming artists and email them, often for credit they will let you use their songs.

2. Use A royalty free music site.

Music Bakery offers a great selection of Royalty free music

Triple Scoop Is where we have purchased all our royalty free music for our demo sites.

Stock  20 - Offers a great selection and has lyrical music through it’s partner Red Beard Music

Take Care!

To find out what version you have open your editor up. On the upper left hand side is the name and version number of the editor.  This is important to send to use when you have a question about your site, as sometimes all that you need to do to correct the problem is update your editor.

To find out if you are using the latest version of your editor:

• Go to FlashPalette’s website  
• Click on the editor you have purchased
• Then click on the try button.
• You will see the vesrion number listed the third line down.
• If your version is a lower number then the one on our site you need to update your site.

To update your editor:

What you need to do so that your site reflects the changes we have made:

1. Download the new editor.

2. Install the new version — when you open your editor it should say Tristan version 3.0.XX

3. Open the editor – You will need to in put your license code

4. Click Save in your editor — this will update your site files.

5. Reload the site files on your server.  Best practice is to delete the old files first, to make sure the changes take!

6. Update these files on your server.

• xml folder
• .swf files
• mail.php
• .fpc file
• flashobject.js

You do not need to reload your images, unless you have made changes to them, and then you would need to load the folders with changes.

As always, let us know if you have any questions.

However, that said I cam back to my office and found a mountin of work to sort through.  A I pulled out a disc to back up a client session — I was remined that I have not backed up my own website files and blog for a while.

To help protect your self against overwriting your site files or worse a complete computer crash. I suggest you make a back up of your website every-time you make major changes to your site.  I do a copy to an external and one to disc.  I like to have multiple copies, but you will find the method that works for you.  This way you will always have the latest copy handy to reload, should you ever misplace, overwrite or lose your site files!

Have a great monday!