This Week with Taylor & Gordon

Setting Yourself Up For Success Going to the gym means it’s going to be a good day Routine will be affected when away Taking gym stuff and using a local gym when away Wordcamp 2024 – Turin, Italy Meeting people I know for the first time Keynote at the end of the event possibly Exhibition ... Read more

Outside help for your own business Personal projects designs (Thank you Jake) No budget put aside, or time to do certain things Objective viewpoint – plus it will get done as it’s customer work for the outside help Investment in your business Collaboration works really well Talking through magic acts and web design with outside ... Read more

Children’s Entertainer’s Convention in Stoke on Trent Alarms that didn’t go off, phone and Alexa Lost confidence – re-evaluate the process Phones with no battery charge will also not go off… Check to make sure your systems are working Check backups, make sure they are working Fail to plan, or plan to fail Alton Towers ... Read more

Hi to Luke from Japan Chat GPT-4o has been released – https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/ Responds to video and photos as well as audio chat It will chat to you in a very realistic and nateral way Lots of video examples on the link – like AI talking to AI Interacting with the world around it 4o is ... Read more

New version of GenerateBlocks – Classes system added New Starter Site build needed Creating default pages, and setting up default styles Much easier to build new websites once this is complete Great to prevent “missing” things like a 404 page Get professionals to do the job Time consuming when creating but will save time in ... Read more

Facebook end groups API access This allowed us to post our videos automatically on our Facebook Group using Restream – and now we need a workaround. We now have to create a Facebook event, which gives us a streaming key which we can then use in Restream It does allow us to embed our live ... Read more

Visit to Budapest – the end of 12 Months of Coffee The Starbucks mug collection is still growing Future Planning – creating a new starter site Generate Blocks now has classes The starter site needs to be flexible for different types of websites and tech stacks Lots of work to create – but it’s a ... Read more

Time Management Set Daily Goals / Todo lists Work expands to fit the time available Set your own deadlines  so tasks don’t drag on Use your time wisely Do the things that are important first Make sure to have down time Prioritise your tasks Decide what you are doing tomorrow, this evening Give jobs to ... Read more

No Such Thing as a Fish – great podcast – check it out – https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/ 3D Printing – printing objects PLA+ is our choice of material Adhesion had been a problem in the past Slower first layer and a higher temp fixed it Remote holder – designed and printed Very useful for creating replacement parts, ... Read more

Clocks went forward – we lost an hour. Day off on Sunday at Thorpe Park WordPress 6.5 released Updating is normally a good plan – however you need to be aware that things can break with updates Make sure you have time set aside “just in case” I had a few issues that needed fixing ... Read more

Mobbin – https://mobbin.com/ Screenshots for each step taken on websites and apps Thousands of screenshots available – paid plan required. See how companies are designing and take inspiration from them How are visitors being trained by other websites? Using Professionals to do jobs that you don’t have the skills for Their experience is worth paying ... Read more

Travelling for 12 Months of Coffee, this time in Lisbon, Portugal You Are Here, Starbucks Mug collection Dashcam thoughts – Protect your assets, my car in this case Wolfbox G900, Rearview mirror replacement – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GErdXMITK6c Touchscreen, SD recording, Front and Rear camera Recording while parked as well Making sure other people don’t affect my business ... Read more

We have both been away, but we are now back… Trip to Las Vegas, helping on a booth, then went to Texas to spend time with a friend Trip to Blackpool Magic Convention – 4,500 magicians take over the whole of Blackpool Hotels and B&B’s everywhere you look Industry event – talking with other professionals, ... Read more

Restream – https://restream.io/ Stream a video signal to more than one platform at the same time YouTube and Facebook Group for example Other platforms that are available include X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, Amazon Live Downside is that it takes a short period to connect to the platforms and you lose the first few seconds ... Read more

Chrome Incognito Mode isn’t secret – https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/18/new-google-chrome-update-warning-for-windows-iphone-and-android/ Trip to Barcelona for January Beautiful City – added to Starbucks Mug collection Google calendar Integration has been done – working on this for a friend for a while Issues with Authentication with Google Solution to allow the website visitor to s...

It’s been cold !!!! Finishing off the Panto Video Editing – Issues with video capture 2024 Goals Life Slots – imaginary slots that you fill with things from your life Prevents you starting new things without finishing previous things Once the slots are full you then have to make space before adding something new Different ... Read more

Full On Pantomime this week – Dick Whittington 2024 Notion App – https://www.notion.so/ A Workspace for Wiki, Docs and Projects All connected together Ultimate Brain – https://thomasjfrank.com/brain/ Quick Capture – brain dump for ideas Filtering of tests is very good Very powerful – check it out Free account available with limits – subscription also available ... Read more

New Season – Season 5 New colour is Red… Goals for 2024 – Reflecting on goals from last year Goal 1 – Improve Work / Life Balance Goal 2 – Scaling up the business – make once, sell many times The audience dictated the product sales method Building trust Continue 12 Months of Coffee – ... Read more

Just wishing you a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year Thank you for joining us during 2023   Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available o...

Trip to a very snowy Prague Pacing Yourself At Christmas Lots more shows booked during the weekdays at Christmas Make sure to leave time between appointments to give yourself breathing time Setting boundaries to take time off if you work for yourself Training your customers by managing expectations Don’t burn yourself out Rize.io Tag and ... Read more

Back after 2 weeks of no shows Visit to Belfast – slower pace of life What do you think the next accent colour for Season 5 will be? Hazel Mac App – https://www.noodlesoft.com/ Organise your downloads folder – or indeed any folder on your computer Run Automations based on file types – rename files etc. ... Read more

Accessability Colour Matrix Colour Ratios that can be used together Dynamically created pulling in the colours being used by Generate Press Tutorial available to members of Snippetclub – https://snippetclub.com/dynamic-accessibility-colour-matrix-with-generatepress/ Showing the custoemrs a grid means you can show why certain colour choices don’t work together DJI Pocket Osmo 3 Purchase – https://s...

Apple surprise announcement, releasing the M3 chip and new Mac Book Pro’s Accessibility – for websites Check your website to make sure it is accessible for all users Link descriptions – image alt. text – checking colour contrast Wave – Checker – https://wave.webaim.org/ Auto-create Alternative Image Text – alttext.ai Accessibility YouTube Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILkXz-PYJxM Informe...

PTSN is being shut down in December 2025 Copper lines will no longer work ChessICT – https://chessict.co.uk/ – Suggested SOGEA – Single Order Generic Ethernet Access Broadband without a telephone line VOIP telephone lines Promises huge speed increases 80 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up 5 year contract !! – who knows what will happen ... Read more

Taylor’s Trip to Macedonia 12 Months of Coffee Differences in working over there Not a lot of English speaking Macedonians Spending time with colleagues Balloon Twisting website – https://www.balloontwisting.co.uk Drop-shipping Balloons Problems areas are – no stock for an extended period – having to pack orders myself If your supplier goes away, then you have ... Read more