Imaginary Trout

09/20/2020

A little Oncorhynchus mykiss genetics study with and The Spokane Tribe of Indians.

07/16/2020

A little piece we did for Mr Patriot Frank DeSomma. RIP brother. Shouts out to Steven Hanlen for your talent!

02/03/2020

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01/30/2020

We're super proud of how well Ridgeline Decks new brand and website are performing. Check out the incredible custom decks and outdoor structures that Ryan and his team are creating in greater Spokane, WA, Post Falls, Idaho, and Coeur d 'Alene, Idaho.

Custom deck builder in Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, and Post Falls. We build Trex style decks, roof covers, pergolas, install and repair decks and railing.

11/08/2019

Please give back to the river that we all use! It is for the fish!

Members and Friends! Do you have a business or service you would like to promote? We are a month away from and procuring donations for our annual Party Like a Redband Raffle, Dinner, and Auction. Are you an artist, hairdresser, woodworker, tattoo artist, quilt maker, casting instructor, or any other fantastic service provider and able to donate a work of art, gift card, or other service to be auctioned or raffle at our upcoming fundraiser?? What a great way to support our chapter and introduce yourself to our 100 guests for the evening of December 3rd. Message us if you want to help and make a donation.

Don't forget to register and join us for the funnest event of the year!! And and if you can't make it, please consider making a donation to our chapter. - tight lines - www.spokanefallstu.org

03/12/2019

speaking of merch, part of the re-boot of imaginary_trout| will include another pre-sale for merch. DM "Trout Farmer" if you want to get on the notification list for when the store opens up. it will be a short window (1-2 weeks) to get your orders in! contemplating more hats, t-shirts, long sleeve t-shirts, hoodies, work shirts, and fleece lined hoodies similar to the attached but likely all new designs in addition to the classics.

02/11/2015

Don't neglect you online presence.

MARKETINGNearly 90 percent of small and medium-sized businesses rely on websites to drive sales and increase brand awareness.When it comes to digital marketing, 86.6 percent of SMBs rely on websites to drive sales and increase brand awareness. When it comes to running those websites, WordPress is the behemoth--the websites hosted on WordPress account for a whopping 23 percent of the Internet.If you haven't already invested in a website for your business, check out these five facts that prove why WordPress is a valuable investment.1. It's free and easy to manageBusinesses with websites of 401-1,000 pages get 6 times more leads than those with 51-100 pages. The benefit of WordPress is that you don't need to be an HTML expert or experienced designer to add content. The platform is free and allows you to easily set up, manage, and update your site.2. It's search engine-friendlyIn the U.S., we conduct 12 billion searches per month on average. SEO leads have a 14.6% close rate, while outbound leads such as direct mail or print advertising have a 1.7% close rate. As Google Engineer Matt Cutts says, "WordPress automatically solves a ton of SEO issues."3. Thousands of free-to-low-cost professionally designed themesIf you want your website to have a polished look, you no longer need to pay a programmer thousands of dollars to create it. Use sites like ThemeForest and WooThemes to find themes as low as $10. Narrow your selection down by category (retail, eCommerce, real estate), tags (portfolio, responsive, creative), price, rating, and more.4. WordPress plugins create additional functionalityWhether you want to block spam or add social sharing buttons, there's a plugin for you. In the WordPress plugin directory, you'll find more than 35,000 plugins to do almost anything you can imagine. Make sure you check the ratings and number of downloads to ensure you're getting a quality plugin.5. The WordPress communityWith more than 60 million websites running on WordPress, it's no surprise that a huge community has sprung up to exchange ideas and provide support. Check out your theme's individual support forum to help you solve simple to complex problems, covering everything from installation to troubleshooting.WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world, so make today the day you tap into its power. Check out these 16 live updating stats from WP Engine to see how prominent WordPress is for for modern-day web content:

06/24/2014

Better than Go Daddy? Guess we'll have to wait and see!

Google today revealed that it is build­ing a domain reg­is­tra­tion ser­vice called Google Domains. The prod­uct is still an early work in progress, so it’s in invite-only beta for now.Google’s small business-facing divi­sion decid­ed to build the prod­uct because, accord­ing to its research, 55 per­cent of small busi­ness­es still don’t have a web­site. Since the domain acts as a web­site’s foun­da­tion, Google decid­ed to do more to help com­pa­nies get start­ed with their online pres­ence. While Google Domains won’t include host­ing, web­site build­ing providers Square­space, Wix, Wee­bly and Shopi­fy have signed on as part­ners.When Google Domains launch­es to the pub­lic, you’ll be able to buy and sell domains through the ser­vice. Unlike some other domain reg­is­tra­tion offer­ings, Google won’t charge you extra to reg­is­ter your domain pri­vate­ly. You’ll be able to cre­ate up to 100 email address­es on the domain and as many as 100 cus­tomized sub-domains. Google Domains will also use the com­pa­ny’s own DNS servers, so vis­i­tors should get a snap­py response time when they hit up your site.If you’re inter­est­ed in try­ing out Google Domains, head to the link below, click on “Man­age My Domains” and then fol­low the instruc­tions to request an invite code.➤ Google Domains

06/13/2014

Remember dialup?

Now that the first wave of 802.11ac Wi-Fi routers and devices are mak­ing their way out the door, the Wi-Fi Alliance and the Insti­tute of Elec­tri­cal and Elec­tron­ics Engi­neers (IEEE) have begun to look ahead to its suc­ces­sor: 802.11ax. And this time around, the wire­less indus­try is turn­ing its focus away from over­all net­work capac­i­ty to actu­al con­nec­tion speed to the device.What I mean by that is that is that these huge gigabit-plus num­bers we so often seen attrib­uted to 802.11ac can be a bit mis­lead­ing. They rep­re­sent the over­all capac­i­ty a Wi-Fi net­work can sup­port — for instance, 1.3 Gbps in today’s most advanced routers — but only in the rarest of cir­cum­stances would any indi­vid­ual device actu­al­ly be able to con­nect at such high rates.As 802.11ac tech­nolo­gies improve they will be able to pack more high-speed con­nec­tions into a sin­gle router and take advan­tage big­ger swaths of unli­censed spec­trum. But our indi­vid­ual con­nec­tions are still peak­ing at just over 300 Mbps (assum­ing the broad­band con­nec­tion them can even sup­port those speeds), and typ­i­cal con­nec­tion speeds are far slow­er.With 802.11ax, though, wire­less engi­neers are mak­ing sure the indi­vid­ual, not just the net­work, gets its fair share of atten­tion, said Greg Ennis, VP of Tech­nol­o­gy for the Wi-Fi Alliance. Though the IEEE is still in the early stages of devel­op­ing the 801.11ax spec­i­fi­ca­tions (we like­ly won’t have a rat­i­fied stan­dard until at least 2018), it has begun set­ting pri­or­i­ties for the new tech­nol­o­gy, Ennis said. And at the top of that list is a 4X increase in speed to device, pos­si­bly push­ing indi­vid­ual device con­nec­tions into the giga­bit range.New standard, new acronymsThe IEEE is hop­ing to accom­plish this with a new radio tech­nol­o­gy called MIMO-OFDA. MIMO, or mul­ti­ple input-multiple out­put, uses mul­ti­ple anten­nas to send mul­ti­ple streams of data to the same or dif­fer­ent devices, while OFDA is a vari­ant of the orthog­o­nal fre­quen­cy divi­sion mul­ti­plex­ing (OFDM) tech­nolo­gies used in 4G mobile and pre­vi­ous Wi-Fi stan­dards.The idea is to cre­ate a more pow­er­ful and effi­cient radio that can shove more bits into the same trans­mis­sion. That would cre­ate a big­ger data pipe to the indi­vid­ual devices, which would in turn add up to greater over­all net­work capac­i­ty and bet­ter Wi-Fi per­for­mance even in the sketchi­est of con­di­tions, Ennis said.“The goal here …

06/10/2014

More SSL for the masses.

Word­Press cre­ator Automat­tic will encrypt all WordPress.com sub­do­mains through SSL by the end of the year, the com­pa­ny has announced. The move is a direct response to the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment’s mass sur­veil­lance pro­gram.After whistle­blow­er Edward Snow­den released files on the Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Agency’s sur­veil­lance pro­gram last year, a num­ber of Web-based com­pa­nies have ral­lied for reform and drawn atten­tion to cyber secu­ri­ty issues.Automat­tic’s promise is part of the com­pa­ny’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in Reset the Net, a move­ment that asks the Web com­mu­ni­ty to fight exploitable holes in encryp­tion soft­ware by pro­vid­ing bet­ter cyber secu­ri­ty — this includes the use of SSL encryp­tion stan­dards.Along­side numer­ous tech firms (includ­ing Google), Automat­tic remains pret­ty out­spo­ken about its desire for gov­ern­ment reform. For exam­ple, it is pri­or­i­tiz­ing trans­paren­cy by pub­lish­ing reports every six months that out­line all gov­ern­ment requests for infor­ma­tion and demands to have con­tent removed.Gen­er­al coun­sel for Automat­tic, Paul Siemins­ki, noted the com­mit­ment in a Word­Press blog post on Fri­day.Via Matthew KeysMore about the com­pa­nies and peo­ple from this arti­cle:AutomatticAutomat­tic is the com­pa­ny behind WordPress.com and WordPress.com VIP, the cloud ver­sion of Word­Press. Automat­tic hosts and sup­ports all WordPress.com sites ensur­ing that there is con­tin­u­ous and strate­gic devel­op­ment of the soft­ware ava... read more »Pow­ered by VBPro­filesAutomat­tic is the com­pa­ny behind WordPress.com and WordPress.com VIP, the cloud ver­sion of Word­Press. Automat­tic hosts and sup­ports all WordPress.com sites ensur­ing that there is con­tin­u­ous and strate­gic devel­op­ment of the soft­ware ava... read more »