This Week with Taylor & Gordon

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Cross-Platform and Browser Testing

Challenges checking on so many different devices

Asking people with other devices to check your sites

Services available to check many different devices – https://www.browserstack.com/responsive

News – New Windows is on it’s way on 24th June 2021 – https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/3/22466394/microsoft-windows-11-launch-teaser-rumors

Mac OS is free and is part of your computer purchase

Transcribing and subtitling our videos

The subtitles are available on YouTube in English, Spanish, French and German

Need a different language, leave a comment on the videos and we will see if we can add it for you

Latest episodes take a few days to do

Happyscribe is great – https://www.happyscribe.com

Bake in your subtitles to social media videos to get more views

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Giveaway Winners Announced – Congratulations to:

1 year of free WordPress hosting – winner: Emma Chard Cummings

1 year of Drayson Design Reviews – winner: Caroline Ainslie

30 minutes of consultation – total podcast audio length was 18 hours, 16 seconds – winner: Hayley Rose

Downtime for some big household name websites this week

Lesson learnt from this, make sure you have good error messages on your website so visitors know it is their connection or not

Search functionality – we updated the search on our website – the results now show you the search term in context

Results have been designed better now as well

Use case for e-commerce website is having an “add to cart” button on the search results

Permaslug hat – Oxygen Builder Courses available – https://permaslug.com/all-courses/

Some of our 3D prints from our new printer

Marble run – Heart with cogs as a gift – Airtags holder

Airtags from Apple are a new product that allow you to track things

It uses the iOS network, so all you need is for anyone with an Apple device to pass by your tag to be able to find it

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Back together in the same room.

Giveaway finishes today – https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/giveaway – Update: expired now

Put your estimate on the total podcast length for the first 52 episodes in the comments, and you could win a 30 minute consultation with Taylor and/or Gordon

3D Printing

Learning how to use our new Artillery Sidewinder X1 printer

Models from Thingiverse – https://www.thingiverse.com/

Print bed size is 30 x 30 x 40cm – so this printer is huge

PLA+ is our filament of choice currently.

We need to update the PTFE tube for a Capricorn one – which has a higher temperature tolerance

We also have a new Metal Extruder Arm coming to replace the plastic one

Fitting is requires taking the print head apart !!!

Also looking for a de-burrer

Current issue is Elephant Feet which has the first layer slightly wider than all other layers

The way to get models onto the printer is via a memory stick, which is a great solution

Showing the models we have printed

ScanSnap iX500 document scanner

Latest model appears to be the iX1600 – https://www.amazon.co.uk/ScanSnap-iX1600-Black-Document-Scanner/dp/B08QDBY4QN

Scan multiple documents into one pdf file and automatically upload to Evernote – https://evernote.com/

I am doing my accounts early to get them submitted before the July payment date

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Slightly different this week – working remotely

Checking in on Taylor and his BNI Meeting talk from S2E49

The giveaway has 1 week to go…

THREE GIVEAWAYS

1-years free WordPress hosting (£60 worth) – https://thecreativetinker.com/services/website-hosting/

1-years free Drayson Design Reviews (£50 worth) – https://www.draysondesign.com/services/software/drayson-design-reviews/

Enter at: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/giveaway

Closes in 14 days

Second contest – guess how long our combined audio content is – prize to be announced – leave your answers in the comments

Coffee shops as a work environment

Working with background noise

Virtual Children’s Entertainers Convention

Removing hard limits, like capacity and accommodation

It is an “experience” convention

Three-day convention, mainly on Facebook and some on Zoom

Lectures available for 12 months, so tickets can continue to be sold

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1-year anniversary – 52 episodes

Looking back at why we started doing these

Over 100 topics of discussion so far

Auto-Generated Subtitles

Adding transcripts of the video to the website

Happy Scribe – https://www.happyscribe.com

We are adding transcripts going forward… and working on past episodes

Adding timecodes to the transcripts to easily find content

THREE GIVEAWAYS

1-years free WordPress hosting (£60 worth) – https://thecreativetinker.com/services/website-hosting/

1-years free Drayson Design Reviews (£50 worth) – https://www.draysondesign.com/services/software/drayson-design-reviews/

Enter at: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/giveaway

Closes in 14 days

Second contest – guess how long our combined audio content is – prize to be announced – leave your answers in the comments

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Last episode before our 52nd episode – 1 year of Podcasts and Vidcasts

Special news next week, don’t miss it.

Hugging allowed from next Monday

Taking time to relax, catching up with people

Production meetings for Pantomime

First in-person meeting for Gordon next week

Background Ambient Lighting

No room between the chair and wall for a screen

Corner light was the solution – https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08JTP2DMD/

Adds some separation and visual interest behind the subject on zoom calls

Calendly replacement – https://calendly.com

Allow visitors and customers to book a zoom call automatically on your website by checking your diary for available dates

Looking for a cheaper replacement – found TuCalendi

Time-limited lifetime deal available at time of publication* – http://fbuy.me/v/gordon_989

We have multiple calendars on Apple Calendars, and this now works along with Gmail

Great customer support so far

They jumped on a zoom call with me to answer a couple of questions I had

Custom fields on signup, plus allowing for payments to book a call

Great new features coming very soon

Highly recommended, check it out.

More information here – https://www.tucalendi.com/en/

Buy Here for best price (if still available)* – http://fbuy.me/v/gordon_989

Don’t miss our special episode next week

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50th Episode… Who would have thought it…

Keeping customers happy

Apple New Product Announcements

New 24″ iMacs in 7 new colours using M1 chip – https://www.apple.com/uk/imac-24/

Airtags, keeping track of where everything is – https://www.apple.com/uk/airtag/

In his free time, Gordon appears in Pantomime in January (although not this year)

Writing and Directing Pantomime

Building my creative skills

Trying to visualise scenes during the writing process

It’s a big undertaking

Multiple screens as part of the workflow

Using an iPad as a second screen

Use Case – One screen as a reference while working on another

Update on widescreen purchase

Taylor will find it difficult to be to use a smaller screen having got used to an ultra-wide

Splitting up the screen real estate for different apps

Gordon’s original second screen was a second computer

Kept it running for software that didn’t work on the latest OS

Keeping data in sync was also impossible with multiple machines

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Higher Priorities

Writing Panto, a year in the making

Cycling – stopped in the winter, starting back up now the weather is getting better

Accountability – making sure you don’t let other people down

Helps to make sure you do things you say you will

Learning together so you can help each other

Dropped Handlebars – more comfortable

Live shows are starting to book

Zoom shows are also still booking

Families and friends who are not local to each other are used to zooming now

This trend is continuing even as lockdown is easing

Live shows have instant feedback

Happy Birthday sounds horrible on zoom shows

Muscle memory is coming back for routines that haven’t been performed in a year

Change and update your BNI elevator pitches

Taylor challenged to create new pitch for the next 4 meetings

There is no try, there is only do or don’t

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We got haircuts and vaccinations

Hockeystack Analytics* – https://hockeystack.com/?ref=drayson

Use it to be able to see how people are using your website

Where they are going, what information they are looking at

Which pages they visit and in which order

How long they stay on your website and so on

Alternative to Google Analytics

Problems are that Google use your information in exchange for letting you use their analytics for free

Google uses Cookies – a small piece of code saved on users devices

Hockeystack can be used without cookies – GDPR friendly

Set up Goals and Funnels with insights

Stats. help you to change your website to convert more

Hockeystack is highly recommended

Problem-solving

Shopify template for WordPress checkouts

Shopify – https://www.shopify.co.uk

Create a “favourites” system for WordPress posts

Favourites Plugin – https://favoriteposts.com

Privacy is changing in browsers giving the user more control

Adblocker to browse quicker

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AppSumo – Lifetime deals for software

https://appsumo.com

Mostly good for SaaS – Software as a Service

Marketplace is the new kid on the block

Non-vetted products – courses, digital downloads, software, ebooks etc.

Quality is variable, however, there are some gems in there

Buyer beware – do your research

Read the questions to get an idea of what the product is like

Ignore the reviews – some of these are incentivised

Code Canyon – https://codecanyon.net

Let us know if you find anything good on AppSumo

Fun with data – API’s

Internet Movie Data Base – https://www.imdb.com

The Open Movie Database API – http://www.omdbapi.com

Collecting information from a movie id such as reviews, poster, cast crew, etc.

Javascript library for Instagram broken – Taylor went to create his own version

Finding an endpoint – allowing you to extract data

Library now available for free to pull in Instagram data

TCT Instagram Feed – https://github.com/tdrayson/TCT-Instagram-Feed

Code has been documented

Video tutorial

News – Paypal have changed their T&Cs – charging you £9 a year if you have a Paypal account that hasn’t been used in the last 12 months, but only if you have credit

Extract your Paypal balance to a bank account instead of leaving it in there

eBay changes as well – old, 10% of purchase fee, plus paypal charges on top

New – 12.8% plus 30p – if you use Paypal to collect your payments you will probably be better off

If you collect payments by BACS or on collection then you will be 2.8% worse off

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