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Getting Ideas for Your Blog

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Have you come across a time where you didn’t have any really good ideas for your blog and needed inspiration? You could write a “Getting Ideas for Your Blog” article, but I have a few other ideas I can toss around to get your mind rolling. I’ll discuss two ideas and why they work.
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5 Reasons To Buy A Mac; I’m Still Not Convinced

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Some time ago, I wrote one of my more popular articles detailing why I design on a PC instead of a Mac. I’ll follow up with today’s article where I play devil’s advocate. Without further ado, here’s my list.

1 - To Fit The Designer Stereotype
The common stereotype is that if you are a designer of […]

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The Effect Your Post Title Has On Being Dugg

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Let’s start off with me being completely honest and saying I digg my own articles. I don’t digg useless articles, but I do digg the useful ones or the ones I’d think others would find interesting. In fact, I wrote an article on socially bookmarking your own content titled Bookmark Yourself and Don’t Feel Guilty […]

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PageRank Update False Alarm

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

I looked up this blog’s PageRank and it jumped to PageRank 4 from a measly PageRank 0. It turns after over-analyzing the PageRank update that occured on November 2, it turned out my blog didn’t get the update as quickly as my portfolio site. All that over-analyzing, out the window. But that doesn’t mean we […]

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November 2nd PageRank Update?

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

UPDATE Nov 5 07: My blog’s PageRank has been updated to 4. Click here for the updated article. 
UPDATE Nov 2 07: I did a little research and it seems there have been posts in 2005 and 2006 on other blogs that mention a PageRank update was occurring. I don’t see any reason why this year […]

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Beginner’s Guide To Getting A Website On Your Own Domain Name

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

This is a question I’ve often been asked and I’ve often had to deal with. It’s not as simple as inexperienced people may think as you do have to deal with some geek stuff, regardless of how experienced you are. If you have a service that handles all of this on their own, all the […]

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6 Tips On Getting Good Cheap Hosting

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Searching for hosting on the internet, especially if you’re using a search engine, is usually mess. What you usually get are hosting review sites or hosts that have the best SEO for your keywords. This is absolutely the worst way to go about it. I’ll give some tips on what you should look for. Recommendations […]

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My Blogging Schedule And Upcoming Posts

Monday, September 24th, 2007

For some of you subscribers out there, I figure this may be a good time to iron out what my blogging schedule looks like. This makes it easier on everyone and you all know what to expect from me.
Occasionally, I’ve invested my time and actively participated in blogs only to find out that two weeks […]

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Why I NoFollow The DoFollow Movement

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Very clever title, I know. The following article will likely be one of my more controversial blog posts. I’m not against negative responses (or positive responses :)) as long as you refrain from personal attacks. So far, I’ve downloaded the DoFollow plugin, and uploaded it to my server. I have not activated it through WordPress’s […]

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A Minor Facelift

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

I gave the blog a really minor design facelift today. Understandably, the older version was a lot simpler because I hadn’t had a chance to play around too much with WordPress because I launched the blog. Now that I have a good handle on it, I played around with it some more. If you’re curious, […]

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