Monthly Archives: November 2006

Today I learned that Google prefers dashes in web page file names rather than underscores. If you use dashes, Google may include your web page in its search results for each word in your file name. However, if you use … Continue reading →

Due to client demands and needs, I’ve been learning a lot more about web site marketing and search engine optimization than most web developers are required to know. Although there are many purely technical aspects to configuring and customizing an … Continue reading →

Today I learned how to create a 301 Moved Permanently web server response in Internet Information Server. This is very important if you change the filename of a web page that has already been indexed by the search engines. You … Continue reading →

I finally have the audio gear I need to do decent voice recordings. I received the Studio Projects B1 Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone but could not get any sound out of it. That microphone requires phantom power which the PreSonus … Continue reading →

I’ve been upgrading my system and finally caused Windows XP to ask me to activate Windows again! I installed 512 MB of additional RAM to bring the total to 1 GB of RAM. Then I replaced the 6.5 GB D … Continue reading →

I used Drive Copy 4.0 to copy the Dell’s 20 GB drive to a 40 GB drive and then installed the 20 GB drive as the secondary IDE drive. This gives me 60 GB of total disk space on my … Continue reading →

I got an invite to MSN Soapbox and I have uploaded 10 of my best videos. Soapbox is Microsoft’s attempt to clone YouTube. I don’t like the video buffering which appears right in the middle of the video image. Also … Continue reading →

I have successfully installed phpBB 2.0.21 on the Car Accessories web site. It can be found at: http://www.caraccessories.com/forum/index.php. I also documented the steps involved: Copy phpBB2 directory to web site root or target directory Create MySQL database phpbb Create database … Continue reading →

I have finally finished reading Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies by Keith Underdahl. I learned how to use the color correction effects which are very useful for improving the image quality of the footage I record using my Sony Handycam … Continue reading →

I spent most of this morning dealing with the YouTube web site which does a poor job communicating with its users. They don’t send out weekly or monthly newsletters. Their blog does not have a RSS feed. They do not … Continue reading →

I was very busy yesterday and worked from 9 AM to 5 AM the next day. I put my computer to work running a Web Position Gold ranking report and then went out to do some errands. I withdrew some … Continue reading →