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I made a website for Dwight Weller, my landscaper, using Go Daddy’s Website Builder. He registered a great domain name, lawnconstruction.com. His business, SieCamDen Property Services, does lawn care services, landscaping, stone paver installation, water features and more.

This was a fun exercise. It got me more familiar with Website Builder, something Go Daddy encourages its employees to do, and Dwight got a website out of it. I highly recommend SieCamDen Property Services. He does lawn and landscaping maintenance for me every week. I used to do it myself, and now that I use SieCamDen Property Services, my yard looks good all the time. I don’t have to worry about it getting out of control, I know Dwight will come every week and keep my lawn and yard beautiful.

Helping small and micro businesses get online with a web presence is the main thing that Go Daddy does. With >10M customers and tens of thousands of servers worldwide, my job is normally deep in the trenches experimenting with software technology and designing multi-tier platforms (lots of drawing boxes and arrows :). Making a website for a small business reminded me what it’s all about.

I’m flattered and embarrassed. This was a lot of fun to make, the Go Daddy productions crew did a great job making this short and fun to watch. There is something really funny and embarrassing about midway. Check it out.

And if you get a chance to watch Chris’s, his is even more funny:
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Want social buttons on your wordpress blog pages, but you don’t want to pay the performance penalty? Try Lazy Social Buttons by Go Daddy.

The WordPress Plugin is a wrapper for the Go Daddy open source lazy-social-buttons posted on github written by LindsayD. She’s the real mastermind behind this. I merely evangelized the concept like mad, then put a WordPress wrapper on the outcome.
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If you’re doing a low number of pageviews (<5M / month), you can crank your GA SiteSpeed up to 100%, I think. This is a bit of a theory, need to look into it more. I'm going to crank up mine to 100% and see what I can glean from it.

Note this line:
_gaq.push(['_setSiteSpeedSampleRate',100]);

<script type="text/javascript">    
var _gaq = _gaq || [];  
 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-YOURNUMBER-1']);  
 _gaq.push(['_setSiteSpeedSampleRate',100]);
 _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);   (function () {     
var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); 
ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true;    
 ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’;    
 var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);   
})(); 
 </script>

There is a lot you can do with Google Tracking API. Can hardly wait to start playing with this.

Dave