Archive for the ‘General Web’ Category

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 [...]

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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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Everyone Should Have iGoogle as Their Homepage

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Just a quick tidbit, for those that may find the name unfamiliar, iGoogle was recently (April 2007) renamed from its original project name: the Google personalized homepage. The best description I can give of iGoogle is that it’s a personalized homepage. It can do everything you can ever want from a homepage and can do [...]

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Making a Favicon.ico

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

What is a Favicon.ico? A Favicon.ico is an icon file used to replace the default website icon in the browser. Favicon is short for Favorites Icon. In Firefox, the default icon is a blank page, as seen in the following picture: A customized Favicon.ico will appear in the browser’s window beside the address, in addition [...]

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An Introduction

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

I felt as though I should start everything off with an introduction so you can know the man behind the blog. I’m a graduate in Graphic Design at Algonquin College. I currently work at a downtown advertising agency here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Although I’ve done work in print, my area of specialty is definitely [...]

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