While moving my blog posts over from Blogger to WordPress, I came face to face with a few old posts where I declared grand plans for my web sites. What became immediately obvious was how far off my predictions were. Everything was off. Although I exceeded my goals with DeepFitness, I [...]
Way back in 2003 I went to a Chinese restaurant which used paper place mats. On my place mat was the Chinese Zodiac Compatibility chart. It showed all the animals and what years represented which animals. And it also showed which animals were compatible and which were not compatible. Before spilling [...]
Bloggers will often link to media on Amazon. Many have affiliate accounts and earn a small commission if the link referral converts to a sale. However, the process of going to Amazon, locating the book, looking for the ASIN number and hand building a referral link that is XHTML compliant can take a while. Adding [...]
I just received a nice thank you for my Mask Email Generator. This page helps webmasters post email links in a way that greatly reduces unsolicited email (SPAM).
Thanks for being there for me!!!!
As you may know, there are several websites that will generate code to help you hide email addresses in a form. [...]
Just a few days ago I was doing cartwheels over how much traffic had increased to my web sites as a result of adding sitemaps.
From The Importance of Search Engine Sitemaps:
Google referrals - DeepFitness
6/14/07: 71
6/21/07: 152
6/28/07: 755
Google referrals - INeedCoffee
6/14/07: 1,658
6/21/07: 1,509
6/28/07: 3,056
Google referrals - Digital Colony
6/14/07: 172
6/21/07: 168
6/28/07: 296
Looks like the page referrals were [...]
On June 16th one of my Digital Colony posts was selected for ASP.NET Article of the Day. Today I earned my second Article of the Day.
The article selected was Roll Your own Drudge Report in ASP.NET.
After Carl convinced me that creating a search engine sitemap was a wise thing to do, I jumped headfirst into the project. Along the way I learned a lot. I even cranked out the ASP.NET Article of the Day on the topic.
Are the sitemaps working? Have they resulted in more web traffic from the major [...]
The last week I’ve researched and coded multiple approaches to developing search engine sitemaps. After completing the sitemaps for DeepFitness, INeedCoffee and DigitalColony, I posted an article on what I learned.
Build a Search Engine SiteMap in C#
Today I discovered that Microsoft has listed it as the ASP.NET article of the day. Cool.
In January, I released the new version of my technical web site DigitalColony.com. Even though I’ve had problems with the publisher Blogger, it has been a success. The Alexa ranking has gone from 679,291 to 389,708. Considering I spent most of 2007 on DeepFitness, INeedCoffee and this site, I’m impressed with the increase.
This morning I [...]
Over on Digital Colony, I was having some fun in Photoshop. Take the colors from a classical painting and apply them to a photograph. Below is an autumn photograph from New England, a Monet painting and the resulting mashup.
Photo and Classical Art Mashup
