Category Archives: Blogs
WordPress Automatic Upgrades on GoDaddy
It’s been a while since I moved this blog over to WordPress, and my only complaint since the move has been the periodic upgrades needed for WordPress and its plugins.
Why is that a big deal? After all, there’s this prominent link saying “Upgrade” when WordPress (or any of the plugins) detect a new version.
Well… for starters, I’m hosting this blog on a Windows IIS7 machine. To complicate matters, I’m also using GoDaddy. Rather than diving into why either of these factors is complicated (if you’re interested, do yourself a favor and Google it) I’ll simply jump into the solution for automatically updating WordPress on a GoDaddy IIS7 hosting plan. Continue reading
The Benefit of Permalinks
About a month ago I finally fixed the issues I was having with the permalinks for my blog. I wrote a post titled Wordpress Permalinks on GoDaddy, where I detailed exactly how to fix the problem.
Today I decided to check my blog’s analytic data to see how the new permalinks have affected traffic to the site. Not surprisingly, they helped. . . though I was a little shocked to see a 55% increase in organic search traffic! Continue reading
WordPress Permalinks on GoDaddy
Permalinks are one of the best features on any blog platform. WordPress and other blog tools allow you to customize your permalink format, a fact that has huge implications for search engine optimization and general URL friendliness. About six months … Continue reading
Ext-Doc: ExtJS-style JavaScript Documentation
A while back, I posted about my struggle to find a good JavaScript documentation tool. Over the past week, I began exploring one more option which is very promising. Ext-Doc is a JavaScript documentation tool which creates by far the … Continue reading
Viral YouTube Marketing Example
I just saw this post on the YouTube Biz Blog. A company named BooneOakley (BooneOakley.com) has done something very cool, using the YouTube annotations feature to present each “page” of their site as a YouTube video. It’s a very cool … Continue reading
Google Analytics – Integrating AdSense Stats
For those of you who don’t already know, I run a handful of blogs and websites on which I display Google AdSense advertisements. I should start by saying that I love the Google AdSense program. I have no shame in … Continue reading
CADIE: a bad April Fool’s joke
Google… are you kidding me? CADIE was released to the world today, and has what may be the worst website I’ve seen ever. Period. While that might be kinda funny to some people, I thought it was just annoying. A … Continue reading
Facebook vs. Twitter vs. Blog
I finally gave in and created a Twitter account. I’ve known about Twitter for a long time, and I spent some time today looking around the site to get a better idea of what it offers. As a social networking … Continue reading
Good riddance, Blogger!
After many frustrations with Blogger, I finally decided to make the switch to WordPress! You may also have noticed a redesign to this blog. It turns out that creating themes in WordPress is about a gazillion times easier than in … Continue reading
Web Development Blogs
I’ve been building websites for the past 10 years. Recently, someone asked me how I keep up with the latest trends and technology — especially since it’s a seemingly impossible task. My response was that, in addition to other things, … Continue reading
