I almost forgot one thing

You know i did the custom 404 page for talk playstation yesterday? A user e-mailed me saying that the ’search did not find anything’ page wasn’t very good as it just displayed ‘Not Found’. So what i simply did was put the content from the 404 page into the search page and modified it a little. I’ve also added in a random post section underneath the RSS subscribe...

almost caught up

The stats on talkplaystation.com have almost caught up to daparky.com despite this blog has been online a month longer than talkplaystation. The stats for daparky.com are: 120 posts altogether 2,548 Visits (from 18th March to 17th April) 4,259 Page Views (from 18th March to 17th April) The stats for talkplaystation.com are: 119 posts altogether 11,531 Visits (from 26th March to 17th April) 16,469 Page...

BlogRush results after a month

I promised to post my thought on BlogRush after a month of using it. I have received some referrals from BlogRush but not as many as i hoped. I will continue to use it because over the past month i’ve seen some of my blog entries have more and more readers by someone clicking my link from another persons blog thats also using BlogRush. I only seem to get 1 reader for some of my entries. I’m...

Choosing a theme is the hardest part

When starting a new blog, choosing the right theme in my opinion is the hardest part. There are so many themes out there to choose from, but choosing the right theme for your blog is hard. I’m currently looking for a theme for talkplaystation.com, i want a dark theme with 3 columns. I’ve looked at a few but don’t really like them to be honest, i might just go with one and edit it along...

Advantages and disadvantages of blogs

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 potential readers Easy to start, hard to...

Finally sorted out indexing problem

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 from happening in the future. I used Googles removal tool...

Web Development category coming soon

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 the design team has put together. I’m not really into design, i’m more of a programming guy. Each time...