Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  This is the 82nd update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 81st Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 8-18-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #1 – My Vizify profile – (no change from last week at #1)
• #3 – My Blogger page (no change from last week at #3)
• #4 – Alan Reeves on GoodReads (no change from last week at #4)
• #13 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (no change from last week at #13)
• #16 – My About page on BlueCapra (up 1 place from last week at #17)

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Responsive design is an important feature of a good website.  The ability of your site to adjust to different screen sizes and still look good is something that visitors remember.  If you are using a good WordPress theme and framework, responsiveness is often built into the design.  Even then, you might run into a few issues.

ScanThisGuide.com before any changes (besides changing the header image size)

I just launched a site, ScanThisGuide.com, using the Focus child theme built on the Genesis framework.  Everything was going well with the design until I checked it on my iPhone.  The site looked great except for the header.  After a little digging around on Google, it seems that other users are having similar problem.  After a little more digging, I found several possible solutions, including a plugin and some extensive code changes, but one that stood out to me because it was simple.

(The Focus child theme and the Genesis framework are both great products I personally use.  If you buy using these links, I get a small commission.  Not much, but it doesn’t cost you anything extra and I can go buy a cup of coffee.)

A special thanks to Antonios007 from GitHub where I learned of the CSS changes  that needed to make for the header image to be more responsive. [Read more…]

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.  You may notice a change in the title; I thought it might be a good time to rebrand this journey a bit.  Stay tuned as it evolves.

This is the 79th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 78th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 7-28-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #1 – My Vizify profile – (no change from last week at #1)
• #3 – My Blogger page (up 1 place from last week at #4)
• #4 – My Pinterest profile (up 1 place from last week at #5)
• #13 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (up 1 place from last week at #14)
• #15 – My About page on BlueCapra (up 1 place from last week at #16)

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Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google.This is the 77th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves.  If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 76th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Monday, 7-15-13 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

• #14 – My Twitter handle, @AlanReeves (down 11 places from last week at #3)
• #17 – My About page on BlueCapra (down 12 places from last week at #5)
• #19 – Alan Reeves on Vimeo (down 13 places from last week at #6)
• #22 – My Pinterest profile (down 6 place from last week at #16)
• #24 – My Vizify profile (down 6 places from last week at #18)

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