Citrix And NextGen Set-up

Citrix and NextGen

Adding NextGen icon to a desktop

-All this must be done with Administrative rights

-Assuming you already have Citrix neighbor hood on your computer.

- View the Citrix Program Neighborhoood – Custom ICA Connections

–      click UP

–      And then click Citrix Find New Application Set.

–      Local area network

–      Enter Description ie “NextGen”

–      Click the drop down for server application set

–      It may take some time to find the Citrix Farm but when it comes up select the Citrix Farm

–      Application Set-Up- Window Color Use Server Default Checked

–      Seamless Window for a more elegant user solution

–      Click next and Finish

–      The Neighborhood screen has now changed and you should double-click NextGen

–      Citrix will automatically find the software you are sharing (NextGen) and will place an icon on the desktop of your workstation

–      We use Pass-through authentication which does not work on Windows 98 machines (Crazy I know but we are going to phase those out)

–      On Windows 98 machines we will hard code the credentials of the person who most uses that workstation.

sorry, no post’s matched your criteria, Word Press

I experienced this problem with one of my Blog posts and could not find a relevant answer so here goes my best guess and solution.

The author, Patrick Wanis also the author of Be Happy, Rich and Wealthy, copied the title of the blog from another website (he was adding a reference to him from the other site to his blog).  I believe there were some hidden characters when he pasted.  This confused Word Press so we were able to see the entry on the first page but not when we clicked the title or “More information”

My solution was to:

- copy the body of the blog entry
- create a new blog entry
- type the text for the Title
- paste the body of the entry
- Publish

Everything worked fine.

I also noticed another possible cause.  If you publish and go back and change the title you may experience the same problem.  In this case you can use the solution above or I think you can change the “Post Slug” see right column on the admin side of Word Press.  This final issue and solution I am not 100% on, no time to test, so any comments would be appreciated.

Search engine optimization (seo) Houston case study

One of our clients Rattan Furniture (www.rattanshowcase.com), in Houston Texas, was interested in doing search engine optimization (SEO).  This particular clients had a single page, we call it a business card, website for 3 years.  The website did very well in the Houston area as they are the only Rattan furniture store in Houston.  Actually they seem to be the only Rattan furniture store in the region.  She was looking to increase the number of clients that she was already receiving from surrounding cities such as Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and Beaumont.  She was also looking to increase the number of clients from surrounding states like Oklahoma and Louisiana all while maintaining good search engine placement in Houston.  Since she only had a “business card” website I was concerned about their budget and willingness to actually pursue this type of campaign.

 I sat down with the owner and we started brain storming about costs associated with placing a single ad in a newspaper in each of those cities and quickly realized that she would be spending hundreds of dollars per month in each city.  We also talked about how difficult (almost impossible) it would be to track the efficacy of those ads.  It was very clear that there would be no more cost effective way to attract customers from those areas than to pursue a Search Engine Optimization campaign.   To start with she needed to invest in expanding her website so that it would have sufficient content, both photos and text, to be appealing both to the search engines that would send her traffic and to the individuals who arrived at her website.  Once this was completed we began the process of optimizing her pages for search engine placement. 

As of the writing of this article she has already achieved 1^st place for four of the selected keywords.  As we move forward I will continue to up date this document.

Update: Now 8 of her 15 keywords are in the top 3 on Google, most of the remaining are on the first page.