For several years, since February 2014 in fact, I have added posts in the publishing category of this blog for the release of each of my developer labs. I am happy to announce my Software Integration Author site [ http://davidwgrigsby.com ] V1.01 was launched last Friday November 18, 2016. This is the first release of a Production Product for Grigsby Consulting LLC and me in over 30 years, as I have been a “Fixer” for others during that time. Like with any software release I am looking for interested parties to validate and provide feedback on speed, content, visuals, sign up, download of the free developer lab books on Amazon Kindle. You can Sign Up at [ http://davidwgrigsby.com/FreeBookSignUp ]
Please reach out if interested, building my early feedback team. You will ultimately get all the Developer Labs free over the next 5 weeks, 2 new ones every 5 days.
In case you are interested in some of the major specifics of the recipe behind the release, they are below:
TECHNICAL SPECIFICS OF THE RECIPE:
- Godaddy for Registrar
- DNS Made Easy for DNS
- Google GSuite for email, office suite
- Ganttify for Google Calendar
- Microsoft Office 365 for Mac (One note is my favorite list tool and Word for manuscripts first draft)
- Amazon Kindle and developer labs all participate in KDP
- Amazon Create Space for paperback bundle (coming soon in review)
- Amazon AWS Bitnami WordPress setup in a T2.micro instance
- Amazon Cloudfront CDN with Amazon S3 bucket
- Divi Theme from Elegant Themes
- W3 Total Cache plugin for CDN and Page cache
- Mailchimp for Signup mail list and email campaigns
- Google XML Sitemap Plugin
- Google Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Many testing tools that grade your site on many dimensions, this is a blog post in itself
As with any release, many good lessons learned and knowledge gained that I wish to share over the following weeks under “Tools I use”, “Field Notes”, “Lessons Learned” and “Commentary”. Many of these lessons learned are coming soon as revisions to this blog and the main www property for Grigsby Consulting LLC.