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00:00 I play I play wiffleball yesterday my body hurts in so many different ways Oh getting old getting old
00:17 hey Greg how you doing today doing my hair how are you fantastic so you have the heatwave over
00:24 on the East Coast too huh yeah yeah hot muggy it's sticky
00:30 it is very sticky hmm I do have to say I think that even though you I think you
00:35 said what it was 95 right I had 110 here yesterday but I would take a hundred and
00:41 ten here over 95 there any day of the week oh yeah I'm pretty sure when I went
00:48 to the pool today and just sitting next to the pool I started sweating and it just like dots on my arm
00:54 it's just what sweat sweat and water everywhere and I wasn't even in the pool
01:00 the girl had fun it had the pool oh yeah
01:06 baby loves the pool oh yeah he's really into the waterfall so she's running in now the waterfall
01:12 okay so then playing with a little fountain yeah she really getting the hang of it so sweet it's uh it's nice to
01:19 see them you know have fun have that kind of joy so yeah my two little ones
01:25 joined the swim team over the summer and they had a swim meet yesterday so I was
01:31 look the lucky guy I got to sit under the hot Sun while I watched everybody else be in the water
01:36 yeah they need the new spectator pool yeah yes yes I'm totally bringing that
01:44 up spectator today I like it instead of instant yeah instead of like you know hot iron bleachers a spectator pool yeah
01:52 much more cool so in today's episode
01:58 Greg we're gonna talk about kind of just it's been almost six months since we've since we started so congratulations
02:04 we've made it this far that's really cool you too you too yes and so we're just kind of gonna revamp and talk a
02:11 little bit about where we're at with our 2018 goals and and then we're gonna feel
02:16 some user questions and talk about a couple reviews we have and kind of keep it light today so Greg how are you with
02:24 your 2018 goals first off what were your goals well let's see if I remember if I
02:31 remember correctly and probably gonna go back on this and just totally mess this up but I wanted to launch a new design
02:39 for chillydog hosting I want to launch a new version of Weaver
02:46 pics Weaver picks for I wanted to launch
02:51 the newsletter service think it was actually almost came out the same time we started just about got that
02:58 thankfully done and then documentation and stuff I really wanted to do a lot
03:04 better on my documentation and communication and branding and a lot of the business side of things bringing
03:10 technical side of things you know it's been it's been good and bad I've been
03:15 working hard and chipping away at some of those things but nothing is nearly as
03:21 washed out and I have a feeling that I have like this set schedule and set
03:27 timeline were I mean I my deliverables are open-ended and and you know how that kind of
03:33 convenience we now have set these and said due dates things go a lot longer
03:38 than then you'd want so let's run I'm kind of I kind of him you know still
03:44 haven't fully figured out how how best to manage some of those things I'm just
03:51 starting to wrap up I think Weaver picks in doing some testing and and finalizing
03:57 the features and those kind of nitty-gritty stuff and that'll probably moved to documentation the newsletter
04:03 stuff is out really happy with that it's it's
04:10 I have to do better about marketing the business side of things and getting people on board and getting people to eat mm-hmm to really take advantage of
04:17 the you know the $1 a month to collect
04:22 emails and manage that in that you know GDP our compliant manner yep you know I know a lot of people are
04:28 signed up and started using your email service right you've got a few people sign up for that already yeah but the only thing I have left to do is like
04:34 what the marketing page for it and stuff like that yeah I go to all the business the business side and I was holding up
04:39 the marketing pages because I wanted to do the new website design and have everything like you know nice and beautiful oh I don't know anything about
04:46 that about yeah yeah I would never do anything like that was the same the
04:52 perfect is the enemy of good enough for ya dial it back and yeah rethink price
05:00 because I I've wondered you know recommend your service to a bunch of people and then I go I keep I keep going to your site going where the hell's this
05:06 page for this thing and and I read on you and a lot of times I send the email to the deer chili mail which isn't that
05:14 right and and then people are like what are you talking about this isn't it like and I'm like oh yeah so see that's my
05:24 bad like yeah just just it's a big big boo-boo on
05:30 my so if someone wanted in right now they'd want to have to email you no no
05:35 there's a there's a cart page where you can you actually buy it but there's no like product page at flushes on all the
05:41 features and kind of outlines and like you know so call Greg his phone number is not your soundboard Oh me and my
05:59 soundboard fail again right there we go
06:05 save on boom that's the f1 key yeah
06:11 exactly so no site design but I know you've also started Weaver picks for right you've
06:18 actually you're actually actively working on it right so I I am I'd be talking to you about it for four months
06:23 now yeah they talked about it so how are you going on with that that's it's I've
06:31 actually had a lot of work done on probably in the beginning of the year
06:37 just some other things popped up and then I kind of been reevaluating the
06:42 features I've had the big the big thing about Weaver pics for as you know is that it's gonna be a stack mm-hmm
06:49 alright no longer gonna be a standalone plugin so I'm working at integrating a
06:56 lot of more services into it and some of the bigger ones
07:01 focusing on is actually all that all the total CMS features right so it's going
07:07 to integrate a lot with the total CMS status that's pretty much done it has
07:16 tell you how many different effects on galleries and stuff like that has built in physical work that maybe doesn't
07:23 range now I have to even look has been so long but now you already have it integrated with what Flickr and 500px
07:30 right no the um well here I am putting
07:36 features in about damn I thought that was I thought that was right now snow I said it yeah I know no you're right no you're right actually 500 pixels flicker
07:42 I had a drop dribble that's what I was a that's what I forgot I had a drop dribble okay you don't have a new PID
07:47 they they did Oh got it yeah so yeah 500
07:56 pixels flicker total seamless calorie total CMS image those and single images
08:01 are where host image mm-hmm so you know I got tons of effects built into it now
08:10 and sweet bringing this up as as I as I talk to you about two three
08:18 9 12 15 roughly 12 15 different
08:25 animation effects and stuff and all course each of those has tons of options so it's taken a lot of work and come out
08:31 great I just want to make sure that it's a really useful and end something that
08:37 you definitely take advantage of and be everything is very clear and apparent and making sure that the onboarding
08:44 processes mm-hmm smooth you know cool so what are your plans going on for the for
08:49 the rest of the year for the next six months what what what you just hope to finish what you've
08:56 already started or do you have more things that you want to start to tackle
09:01 picks for done if I got Weaver fixed for done I'd be really happy okay if I was
09:08 able to get my site design
09:15 or in art to beyond the design phase mm-hmm I'd be really happy okay and you know that's probably what I'd be
09:23 really happy with Weaver so just curious what what do you why do you want to redesign cuz I actually I kind of like your site I think it looks nice it looks
09:29 a hell of a lot better than my current website all right so like Charlotte hello it's a low bar that's pretty low
09:34 bar taking the shots man I know I'm
09:40 letting myself down and then you just pushed me down even further man it was a soft doesn't softball always a softball I want to go I want to
09:52 go into something more you know I definitely like the chili dog hosting design
09:58 and I redid chili dog software's design but I want to bring chili like hosting had more of a dog theme go full dog
10:06 going full dog like like what's up dog again I've like rappers and stuff on there any the rabid dog crime that Crime
10:20 Dog was that crying uh oh man
10:26 right out of crime yeah I can remember saying yeah yeah no I think I think more
10:34 more of like dog print they'll kinda like the dog print yeah okay
10:41 freshen freshen it up I want I really want to make it simpler and easier for people to get started okay you know I've
10:48 liked getting to like like puppy email and go all dog themed out
10:54 yeah okay I know I see yeah you have your puppy VPS right yeah you know and
11:00 all the plans are that the plans actually a funny they're named after em
11:06 they're they're named
11:13 dog something like that right right exactly there but their chili dogs like toppings
11:20 for chili dogs and stuff Oh Oh different size different size chili you know
11:25 there's the foods is the food slant on the animal tape okay got it Connie see what the onions
11:31 and sauerkraut with that or what yeah yeah so we have like different size chili dogs and different spiciness of
11:37 chili dogs and yeah yeah I saw probably changed that to something that's more dogs I'm sure senator instead of the
11:45 food centered stuff but okay gonna have fun could have fun with it how about you what do you pretty much in terms of goal
11:54 wise I'm pretty much in the same exact place as I was in late January still
12:02 still working on getting Weaver space done we had hope to get it out by like the beginning of May then it was the end
12:08 of May and now we're in July right so yeah we are a whole lot closer though
12:15 right I actually we actually have pages like like beta test pages actually
12:20 designed and published to a secret location and so we are actually making
12:27 progress we're at a point now I have you know total CMS to I'm building out for
12:32 to manage the entire thing I have that now at a stable enough place it part a
12:38 part of it was a I was you know had to build out a lot of that back-end to even build the site and then dam John Hopkins
12:45 had to buy a house and you know and all that jazz and that took up a lot of time so he has a nice house though so good
12:52 congrats to him on getting a new house and move in and all that jazz but yeah luckily he's back in it and for the past
12:58 about week and a half we've been pretty much someone's been working on my web site almost 24 hours a day because he's
13:04 in England right so it's like you know he you know we work until about 2:00 a.m. his time and then I keep working
13:10 and most of time by the time he's up in the morning I'm just about to go to bed
13:16 and so then he starts working on it and then I'm in bed
13:21 so we've been working on it pretty pretty hard for about a week and a half two weeks now so it's been good we're
13:28 making a lot of progress so hopefully we aren't too far off now I'm definitely
13:33 this summer we are we will definitely make summer 2018 for the new Weaver space site so I'm excited about that
13:40 nice nice yep what about your other stuff what he didn't do but you didn't do differently to try to meet some of
13:46 the other goals you had um you know a lot of those a lot of the other goals I had were pretty much all for after I
13:52 launched Weaver space they were well one of the goals was this podcast actually so that I guess that's been kind of
13:58 successful right I mean we've been going for six months right um so that's definitely you know that's something
14:03 I've wanted to do so I'm glad we're we've been doing that we were doing it pretty regularly so I think we might missed one or two weeks or something
14:09 like that but all in all we've been we've been pretty good and I'm happy with that and I think users are really enjoying it
14:15 right so that was definitely a goal of mine and after Weaver space the site's launched I really want to focus a lot
14:21 more probably dedicate like maybe at least like two days a week to like just working on the business not in the
14:28 business right in terms of marketing and and stuff like that so I really want to you know do more of that stuff and yeah
14:37 I I also have a ton of products that I are at like than 80% range of being done
14:43 so after the site's launched I'm just going to take those over threshold and start releasing a lot of that stuff as
14:49 well and then obviously we have wrap Weaver 8 and written stacks for coming this year as well so hopefully is gonna
14:56 it's gonna end up as a really fun great year for for the wrap Weaver community
15:01 so yeah that's kind of where I'm at that's good it's good yeah it's
15:08 definitely definitely need to get better about about the business stuff but I've been I've been uh working hard in the
15:15 business and trying to get a few things off my plate to clear yeah clear stuff up you know minor updates but fixes and
15:23 support yep and onboarding new clients and stuff so you know their clients are
15:28 the number one thing so I take care of them first and put everything else I can easy yeah everything everybody talks about
15:34 how everyone asks for hosting everyone says go to chillydog no complaints there
15:40 no exactly our job but you know how it is like you know you wanna help the person first before mm-hmm you know
15:47 adding a feature doing that book fix you really wanted to do yep write that write that code yeah so I know I'm gonna get a
15:53 lot of questions about this total CMS beta total CMS - beta by the end of summer so
15:58 once I get the site launched and released I'll start having some public betas for total CMS I'm not gonna be doing it
16:04 before my site's launched because I want my entire sole focus to be on designing
16:10 site I do have two users that currently have act well John Hawkins and one other user currently have access to it and
16:16 they're banging it on for me so they they have an alpha version and it is you
16:23 know it is site worthy now at least so that's that's fun because of obviously where I'm building the new we were space
16:29 with it so it's got to be it's got to be at least pretty decent to manage all of that 150 products I do have to say it's
16:35 pretty cool so like you know the current site that we have that the Alpha site is
16:40 you know has product pages for every product it's all done but what's crazy
16:47 interesting is that the wrapper Weaver projects only like five pages right now right but when you look at it online
16:53 it's like hundreds of pages because every you know you got your list of products and click on it and it goes
16:59 through into the into the individual product page and it's very cool I think
17:05 it's it's going to be a really nice game changer for the freelancers that build
17:11 what larger websites or you know or a company that wants to build you know a website that have lots of products and
17:16 stuff like that right it allows you to you know really design you know templates for your pages and then use the CMS to
17:24 control the content and dynamically insert stuff so that you know looks like you're you have a huge website when in
17:30 reality you only have like you know 10 pages 5 to 10 pages in your project so really excited about that sounds sweet
17:38 can't wait to see it so user stuff yeah so let's let's look
17:46 at some user reviews we got a couple reviews on iTunes so thank you very much for like the two guys that left some
17:52 reviews for us on iTunes she's gonna read these off first one is from Ely way
17:57 or Ellie way and it's just discovered this product oriented to the other
18:05 episodes really helpful information the pace is perfect to Joe and Greg keep it
18:10 fast but really easy to listen and learn thanks guys boom thanks Ellie next one
18:17 is from red Max and for me this is like being the proverbial fly on the wall
18:24 while Plato and Socrates whispered universal truths with casual a plume oh
18:30 my goodness Oh so who's Plato and who's Socrates who they are in general is it who are
18:38 you Plato or my Plato like I don't know
18:43 I don't think I am deserving of such high look more like more like Pluto and
18:49 Donald Duck our works are were to never
18:57 dawned they ancient literature or library though we appreciate the review
19:06 yes yes thank you very much both were five star reviews I want to say so thank you very much if you guys are liking the
19:12 show please go ahead and leave a review thank you very much for red max and le
19:18 so thanks guys um yeah appreciate it next up we got a couple user questions actually submitted
19:25 via email so Greg why don't you jump into those we did I'm going to try to
19:33 read or Evie her shortening this email from Pete yes his question is on
19:40 subdomains his first part is about how subdomains work in total CMS for users
19:48 so if they had a subdomain and they had total CMS so that for the subdomain what
19:54 happens when he wants to move it to a primary domain so anything wants to take
19:59 Dan boxtop mydomain.com and move it to my domain comm to make it live how does
20:07 that process work okay first part first part okay so um it
20:14 looks like he says he's also confused about the whole sub-domain thing right so what do you explain to everyone this
20:20 yeah why don't why do you explain just for the basics what a sub-domain is Greg well your main site when you see when
20:27 you type in your awesome slight com that
20:32 that would be your main site a sub-domain is in let's be a good way to
20:40 describe it it's it's like a folder or sub section of your main domain so you
20:47 can set up a sample site you know samples dot your awesome site calm where
20:55 you set up test dot your awesome site calm or sandbox dot or awesome site and
21:01 these are these are sex sections that you can use
21:09 element you can use for testing you can use that do not impact your main domain so
21:15 these are ways that you can add more sites to your URL
21:23 and then use for various purposes so you know as this person is using a sandbox
21:29 site they want to do all their tests and development on an area that is isolated from their main site so hope that
21:36 explains it a little bit mm-hmm yeah definitely yeah so how does all this work with
21:42 total CMS right first off Pete so a I think people that try to do you
21:47 know um subdomains you know we talked to a we did talk about this a couple episodes ago right about how to set up
21:53 subdomain I think it was in the publishing best practices episode right so would total CMS the licensing um it
22:01 is licensed for your domain and all subdomains so if you apply your license
22:07 to the sub domain it will work you don't need a separate license for your sub for a sub domain and a real domain okay now
22:16 we do recommend a sub domain because kind of like what we recommend what we said in the publishing best practices
22:24 episode was if you publish to a subfolder and versus a sub domain right
22:30 if you publish to a sub domain it's gonna be better because all your paths to everything are going to be correct right they're they're not going to
22:37 change right from your the only thing that's gonna change when you go live to your production domain is the you're
22:44 removing the sub domain but all the paths to all the files and folders and everything is gonna remain the same so
22:49 it's gonna be a much cleaner experience than trying to do that all inside of a subfolder now when you want to move from
22:57 your sub domain to the main domain they see you're gonna you know republish everything to your main domain move over
23:03 the CMS data folder that's gonna be at the root of the website move that from your sub domain over to your wherever
23:10 your live domain is and at that point you should be good you're gonna want to
23:15 make sure that like um your project in your project file in the general settings that you update the website
23:23 address to not have the sub domain in case it does right so you want to make sure that that has the correct
23:28 mayn't your main domain and the only other thing that you're gonna want to make sure is that you go to the blog
23:35 post pay so the total scene has blog what it does is if you're using pretty URLs okay
23:42 which you probably are on peak because I know then what pretty URLs are is basically
23:50 normally by default when you go to a blog post the URL has you know my domain
23:56 comm slash blog and then there's like a question mark permalink equals you know and then the the permalink for your blog
24:03 post well if you wanted to get rid of that question mark permalink equals in the URL total CMS can be configured to
24:10 use pretty URLs so inside the blog post the content side on the blog post page
24:17 there's a setting to turn on pretty URLs and when you preview that page it shows you a little light box that hopefully
24:24 makes it as easy as possible it tells you what htaccess rules it creates the htaccess
24:31 rules that you would need for your particular project you're gonna have to put those inside your HT access file so
24:37 if you're moving to a from a subdomain to a main domain you need to make sure that that htaccess file has moved over
24:42 as well right so that all if you are using pretty URLs it's all good
24:47 beginning long story short you're going to make sure you go to your blog post page the content side and rack weaver
24:52 make sure that that pretty URL set up is is exactly what you want preview the page and you might need to resubmit it
24:59 if the content on the server is not what the stack believes it should be probably
25:06 because it probably saved the subdomain into the blog so it'll probably notice that you're no longer on the sub domain
25:11 and it'll just ask you to resubmit it'll verify that the new domain is correcting
25:17 you just click Submit and if all goes well it should just work from then on so
25:22 so that was kind of a mouthful did he have a second part of his question Greg
25:28 yes froze and okay so I guess this one's for
25:34 me and should have done more research and speak before toys but we covered hosting can you please discuss the pros
25:41 and cons of hosting in different countries for example I'm the next drill I'm in Australia hello from Down Under
25:48 hello Down Under should I host with Greg so actually I get this question a lot
25:53 and I do have lots of clients actually host with chili dog from Australia from
26:00 an SEO perspective it's you know at Google understands your
26:07 content and you know knows your URL so if you have like a dot-com dot EU domain
26:14 they know you're targeting a you you know the a EU country in Australia
26:20 and stuff and they know on your based on your content that you write if you provide address and context they'll know
26:28 that these users are for your demographic and and I had this lengthy
26:35 discussion when I was developing se rx with an SEO consultant to make sure that
26:42 you know that was kind of true and he was like yes it's it's true because you can if you like do use Google's if you
26:51 use like Google in the UK versus Google in the US you actually try the same queries and you can see that the results
26:57 are different and what gets matched is totally different based on on that demographic local so
27:05 now other things that matter that might matter is you know if you're in closer
27:13 proximity to your users or you know your demographic I guess that depends on what
27:19 you deem is acceptable there are there are two course differences because you know if you had a server that was 10
27:25 feet from you verse 10 thousand miles from you there's gonna be some kind of difference come kind of latency come
27:30 kind of lag but to be honest I don't see I don't
27:36 really see that being a driving factor now verse what it was 10 years ago because
27:43 the general internet speeds and accessibility is really really good now
27:48 I don't see I don't see users on three
27:56 my servers and my system have really high latency really high high lag for
28:03 their pages and stuff so everything seems to be Aaron was talking about like milliseconds here in terms of difference right right yeah right right right so
28:11 and yeah so we're talking like tens of milliseconds maybe at worst hundred
28:16 milliseconds so you're not gonna suffer too much on on those scores so in other
28:24 words somebody we knew you would probably trust you know if you're not gonna go
28:31 with chili dog then I'm gonna do some get they'll make the best choice for you
28:37 and your business of course I would never advocate differently because that's how I firmly believe in that you have to make the best choice for your
28:42 business but you know you're more than welcome to host a chili dog I do have plenty of people who who you know live
28:50 in Australia and other side of the world Hong Kong and everything and those with chili dog now is this another use case
28:55 counter for CloudFlare if someone's worried about you know geography in there where their hostess and it would
29:03 have sort of it if it would definitely proxy in cash
29:08 the CDNs for your page loading but like you're publishing would still be directly to the servers yes yeah but I
29:15 mean I mean one of the things with CloudFlare is that they have you know I don't know 50 servers around the world that are going to you know if you're in
29:23 Australia but the servers in you know New York let's say they have I think
29:29 they have a data center in Singapore right so essentially instead of for the
29:34 initial request might go through this server to get the HTML right because cloud frozen cache the HTML but like all
29:40 the resources is images and all that jazz it's going to come from the Singapore server again we're talking
29:46 about milliseconds here but that is you know one of the selling points of
29:53 CloudFlare yep yeah and even the free plan would do this yes even the free
29:59 planets are correct yes and most truck weaver users don't either pay plan and
30:06 unless your banking or adjustment company doing direct stock exchanges I don't think bilis I guess really kills
30:14 anybody at this point in the game yeah I'm not doing real-time stock trades
30:23 cool so I hope that I hope that adequately answered your question Pete sweet Thank You Pete it's been good he
30:30 joins the Hangout server now and then he's been a regular for years I'm still waiting for my boat Pete Pete was gonna
30:37 build me a boat he promised me and I'm still waiting for my boat so come on Pete well Wow Joe gets a boat
30:46 I I may have insinuated it he never actually promised maybe but let's not
30:52 tell Pete that okay that's just between you and me I'm still waiting for my boat Pete come on come on man
30:57 okay sorry about Australia Pete you were so close to getting into the world into
31:03 the knockout rounds in the World Cup they were so close Australia was it was one of those crazy days where depended
31:10 on if the other game happened a certain way I'll surely would have gone through and just didn't happen so Australia is
31:18 out again this year sweet Greg where can everybody find you Plato okay so our cookies chili dog soft
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32:22 did today um shoot us an email at feedback at Weaver radio.com cool Greg
32:29 well thanks for the chat today that fun yeah thanks you take it easy take care of it
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