All day i’ve been sorting out talkplaystation.com, installing new plugins, submitting it to Technorati, submitting it to Google Webmaster Tools/Yahoo/MSN. Doing all this takes time - a lot of time!
I think i’m pretty much done and can just get on with publishing new content. I will probably make changes to the layout, for example, maybe add [...]
I’m happy to say i’ve got a nice break coming up, 4 days off. I’m off work Good Friday, the normal weekend Saturday and Easter Sunday, and then off work Monday. This will give me more time to think about my projects and spend time developing talkplaystation.com - a site dedicated to Playstation fan boys.
I want to launch a few [...]
I’m very happy with the way this blog is heading. I’m receiving positive feedback and a lot more comments. In terms of traffic im getting around 55 unique visitors per day on average, my subscriber count is around the 17 mark.
I mentioned that i was going to get rid of the video game category and make [...]
I had a look to see what others thought of blogging, what their advantages and disadvantages are about blogs. I will list mine and then show you what others think…
Advantages of blogs
Freedom of speech
Share knowledge with other people
Make friends online
Can be used as a diary
Disadvantages of blogs
Need to keep it constantly updated otherwise you lose [...]
Google was indexing pages i didn’t want indexing for example, the admin pages, plugin pages etc. I installed Joost de Valk’s Robots Meta plugin which adds the appropiate meta tags to pages. An example of this is that google had indexed my login page, and robots meta has now put a ‘noindex’ meta tag to stop [...]
This week or the week after i will add a new category to this blog called Web Development. The aim of this category is to showcase the work i’ve done for the company i work for. If your wondering who i work for, they are called Freebird. I work there as a programmer, developing websites [...]
My blog has been online for a month now and i’ve only just witnessed the real use of Akismet. I currently have 15 spam comments coming from what looks like the same person over and over again:
If Akismet didn’t exist then i would have a horde of spam comments on my blog. Some people don’t [...]
Recently i mentioned i wanted to update my blog design and add in new features. All evening i’ve been tampering with the design of this blog. I’ve been adding new bits, taking bits out until i came out with this:
As you can see i’ve added a top bar, consisting of three collums, two of which are occupied [...]
I mentioned early this week that i was going to tell you how i got into blogging and who inspired me. I will answer those questions now.
This time last year i didn’t know what a blog was until i ran into Smemon’s blog. I was searching on Google for website ideas because i wanted to see what ideas [...]
Yes thats right, my internet went off last night due to a local exchange problem. That meant i couldn’t update my blog. I tried calling my ISP and they said it was an exchange problem so i had to sit there and wait for it to come back on.
Last night i witnessed life without the [...]