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Entries Tagged ‘blogging’

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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Thank you Akismet!

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 [...]

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Blog top bar almost done

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 [...]

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How i got into blogging, who inspired me

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 [...]

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