Day 5 Monday 23 April 2012 tasks involve changing blog graphics – header, footer and RSS icon.

This should have been a five minute job for me – but …

I ran into problems with the hosting account I use for this blog as well as a completely different hosting account that both developed FTP problems.

When FileFTP didn’t work I tried to use Filezilla, then different FTP accounts on the servers – then reset passwords, all to no avail.

This meant a lot of non-productive time spent trying to find work arounds, raising tickets and providing details to tech departments.

24 hours later and the problems have still not been resolved.

I think these problems have been caused by recent cpanel security upgrades on servers.

For now my only work around is to upload files one at a time using my cpanel file manager – much more tedious than using FTP.

Luckily John’s tasks today involve uploading just 3 new graphic images and renaming them – usually just a few minutes work.

Summary of time spent for the day:

• 10 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 13 minutes listening to audio files while out walking
• 5 minutes making notes of days activities (to help me rinse and repeat later)
• 15 minutes watching videos and doing the days work
• 150 minutes sorting out technology problems

Summary of time spent on One Month Mentor to date:

• 50 minutes creating MP3 audio files
• 104 minutes listening to audio files while out walking
• 45 minutes making notes of days activities (to help me rinse and repeat later)
• 315 minutes watching video and doing the days work
• 150 minutes sorting out technology problems

Today I checked the sites performance using Firefox Addon SEOQuake.

As expected, the site is not yet ranked by Google or Alexa – and SEO sucks.

For now I’m resisting the temptation to get things moving faster – using tricks such as the All in One SEO plugin – so that we can see how things progress following John’s blueprint.