Archive for June, 2009
Add a Favicon to your WordPress Blog
One of the little personalization details I like to add to any site I work on is a Favicon, that little icon you see next to the address bar in your browser. Even though it’s one of the simplest changes you can make, many sites leave out this small detail for whatever reason. Well, in this article I’m going to show you how to add a Favicon to your WordPress-powered site.
Easy Monday: Chain letter joke for your laughing pleasure
I know how tough it can be to come out of that weekend relaxation mode and jump straight into work mode bright and early every Monday morning, so here’s a little chain letter joke I received that I thought was pretty funny.
Matt Cutts talks about internal linking and PageRank sculpting
Here’s a video from Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s web spam team. If you want to know Google’s position on various SEO methods, this is the guy to turn to. Here’s a video where Matt gives us some insight into “PageRank sculpting,” a fancy term for selectively linking to various pages on your own site in order to direct the PageRank in the most desired locations. You can find Matt’s blog at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/.
htaccess Rewrite www
In this article I teach you how to use Apache’s mod_rewrite to redirect all visitors to the www version of your domain. I’ll also cover the reverse for those that want to send visitors to the non-www version only.
ExpressionEngine vs. WordPress – First Impressions
Lately I’ve been tinkering around with ExpressionEngine, the popular commercial CMS from Ellis Labs. There are some great things about the software and some really, really bad things. In this post I’ll cover the basics of what I didn’t like about the $300 content management system.
