Posts with tag 'Web'

New look for nathandial.com

Well, I just kicked in the DNS change that should shake down to mark the official launch of this, my new website. My old site was old -- originally built in '01 (or earlier?) while I was still in school, unmarried, and starting to do useful things in PHP. I built this new site with the django framework and pulled in some of my old Pleonast entries to have some test data. Then I liked the test data ...

The ultimate SEO

There's an old saying, typically shared by the successful to the less-fortunate: "Living well is the best revenge." If you've been shot down, disenfranchised, or otherwise rejected, the best way to respond is by simply punching on despite the consequences, and showing the world (including those who may have wronged you) that you can succeed anyway. There is a similar truism when it comes to optimizing your page for better search engine placement: The long-term winning Search Engine Optimization strategy ...

Why I don't click when someone tells me "do NOT click this link"

One time someone posted a link on a discussion board as an example of a very bad link for someone to post. He followed up by saying DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK. I then read somebody's response to that, which said something to the effect of, "seriously, don't." Well I (stupid) had to see what could be so bad that people would seriously tell me not to click it, right? The link contained an image, and the image was the ...