Wednesday, April 06, 2011

The feedback I have been getting about the new design has been a pleasant one. I wish there were more to read, but at least I do not have to spend that much time reading reviews. There are just so many things that I want to post, but I only allot myself one hour each day to post something new. Now I must decide where to start. Check it out when you get a chance. Something new should be up within a few hours.

New Site Up for testing?

Hello Again,

Well, I couldn't wait any longer. So, I published the new design in order to see how it would act live. This way when I add to the site it can be published as soon as it is possible. I also made it easy to get feedback on the new design.

I have been noticing a slight increase in the amount of traffic in the last few days. I am hoping that the traffic will continue to increase as time continues.

Thank you for reading.

Saturday plus one!

Hello again,

As I was starting out my day late from the previous night, I was caught off guard by my wife as she already had the day planned. Unknown to me, she wanted a Saturday of fun and watching the new movie Paul at the Majestic. Her reasoning was that I wasn't noticing her the last couple of days because I was caught up with the new website design. After a few minutes of going back and forth, I conceded to my wife and we went out for a day on the town. Before the night concluded itself, I convinced my wife to help out with McClain Solutions, LLC so she did not feel left out. In all respect I think today was a good day for McClain Solutions, LLC. Not only did I enjoy a day out with my wife but I enlisted the assistance of my wife. How many husbands can say that without feeling like they are digging their own grave?

Well, until next time. Y'all come back now, ya hear?

A long night...

I would like to take this time to apologize for the long period of inactivity and website changes.

For all of you that supported and continued to comment on my posts, and the work on the underground pages, I am thankful to you all for keeping my thoughts on McClainSolutions.com and keeping my options open.

As you know the American economy is not doing so well which forced many people, including myself, to focus all the time and strength we have into avoiding the economic downfall. Unfortunately, I am not impervious to the economy and the forces that continues America's deconstruction.

As the dust settles after our own personal economic impact, we find ourselves with less opportunities and more time. I used some of my time the last few months carelessly and foolishly. (I enjoyed only some of it) And like lighting illuminating the sky with a loud blast of thunder, I woke up! And started to work a little here and a little there.

At the beginning of 2011, I registered McClainSolutions.com as a Limited Liability Company (LLC) with the State of Wisconsin.

So with a slight delay in announcing this, McClainSolutions.com is now known as McClain Solutions, LLC.

With that filling came a whole bunch of paperwork and something really cool.

So without further delay, I am announcing a new webdesign for McClainSolutions.com!!!

I mean McClain Solutions, LLC.

As many of you may know, Mac has taken out flash from their operating systems. This has caused the main website of McClain Solutions, LLC to not function on Mac products like the Iphone and Ipad. As Mac users have been growing in the last two years, I am forced to design a static/dynamic (non-flash) design.

My first choice was to make a busy site that would have information jump out at you from all directions. But that idea was returned with heavy feelings, so I turned my attention to a much more simpler site with easy eye flow. My second choice was returned with happier feelings.

At first I had no idea what the theme would be. I wanted to move away from the global idea, because McClain Solutions, LLC is not a global company. (To much paperwork) I struggled with coming up with a theme for several weeks, until my muse started to sing to me.

So my muse was singing and I started redesign work just 48 hours ago. I am calling the new design "Burning the midnight oil". The site will be simple and easy on the eyes with easy navigation, because everyone has a lazy eye when they are "burning the midnight oil". The color scheme for the site will be similar to cappuccino/coffee colors with a little flavor.

There is still allot of coding to be done, but the design theme aspect of the site was completed just 8 hours ago.

And as I finish closing up for the night I am hitting the sack.

Thank you for reading.

New link posted last Sunday

I published a new link to download the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) instead of an article. I was hoping to get some type of feedback, but instead found static.

Today, I put up the link on the fan page with the question hoping for something more than just static.

As I am coming to the realization that there may not be that many colleagues reading my content, I am under debate if I should come up with a deadline on when is too much static enough. There are pages within the site that I know several of my co-workers are looking at and using. Yet, the point of having a webpage is to widen views and build better colleagues.

Truthfully, my time spent on the site and pages are not that much and take very little effort on my part. Nevertheless, it does take time, which at this point I had until STO came out.

The new Star Trek Online (STO) interactive game has taken up my relaxing time and has somehow leaked into other times in my day. The Star Trek game is very addictive. So, on Sunday, I have called a time out playing STO.

It has not been an easy week, so this Sunday’s article will be on the game itself used as a stress reliever and how addictive it can be. I hope that it should generate some feedback. Or perhaps, I will just post the link to the STO game. Depends on the weekend.

Well, till next time.

This weeks article 'Basic Windows Corruption OS Fix'

OK, the title for this weeks article could have been made more non-tech like, but who would notice?

What is the reason behind the article?

I spent all day today working on fixing my system because of a blown SMB MiniRedirector Wrapper service driver which Workstation services depends on. It took me about 90 sec to find the issue. But I decided to look around and see if anyone else was having the issue with Vista or Windows 7.

It turns out I was not the only one and several quote "Microsoft Cert techs" couldn't answer any of the users questions. The quote "Microsoft Cert techs" on the boards recommends reinstalling the OS instead of finding the issue and resolving it.

So I decided to answer a few posts and look for an easier way of resolving the issue. Because I spent 5 hours of my life on this one simple issue, I just had to make an article.

Well that's it for today. Time for me to go do some house work. Tell next time.

The article about using common hand sanitizer

This past week I was so busy with work that I forgot to even make an article. In addition, this weekend, my mind went blank. Today as I started my workday, I saw that I did not even comment or post a new article of the week.

In my hastiness in finding a new quick article, I concluded that making a quick article regarding hand sanitizer was a great idea. I keep a bottle on me at all times and there was a time a few years back that I had to get a little creative with a printer. To my surprise, I found myself a new cleaning solution that had multi purposes, which was so common; I even could have used the clients hand sanitizer.

Imagine if you would, how many issues could have been resolved over the phone by simply asking the user to pick up some hand sanitizer and clean something.

In any case, it is a good article that I am hoping my readers will find satisfactory. And I will be making it up to them this Sunday.