I’ll be extremely slow with updates, as I’ve started work on Book.02. The slow pace is a result of prioritizing. Thank you for your understanding :)

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I guess the Page Rank doesn’t really matter [unless you’re into the whole “status” thing that it supposedly confers onto a blog/website!].

What does matter is if your ranking in the search engine itself drops. Mine was probably due to PPP-related posts, so that’ll be the focus in this post.

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A pure white background can be too stark, with too much glare.

The ideal is to leave the text black, and the background some shade of gray.

Also, some tips to relieve/prevent eye strain from computer usage (you don’t want to lose your vision, do you?).

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I think I’m gonna stay with my current version of WP.

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The importance of having a search engine friendly page title — and how to do it for a WP blog.

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Ramblings due to the meta description for the index page, appearing on every single damn post of my WP blogs — which is not good.

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How to create an Archives Page for Wordpress.

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How to get Compact Archives to appear inside / work on a WordPress page.

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<-- basic CSS -->

Content. Padding. Border. Margin.

Order: Top, right, bottom, left.

Repeat until remembered.

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Seeing the “Invalid XML: too many tags” too many times makes one very exasperated…

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By default, a blog’s feed should be as follows: http://www.mydomain.com/feed

By chance, my fantasy art blog was missing the default feed. WordPress has several feed URLs.

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Consider using a custom permalink (date and name based), instead of the WordPress default (numbers based).

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I made some changes to one of the sidebars of my themes (increased the pixel width). It worked out fine in Firefox.

Later, when I switched to IE, I found that the sidebar had shifted wayyyy downwards instead…

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I don’t really like sidebars to be overcrowded.

These are some directories that I personally like (due to features and presentation, and how quickly they add your blog/s to their listings).

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With no taskbar / toolbars showing.

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This is regarding where to place the < ?php wp23_related_posts(); ?> code, for a Related Posts plugin.

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A free hosting service might be useful to begin with, if you’re testing things out and etc.

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Think of Blogger, Typepad etc. as “journals” — Tumblr would be a “scrapbook” in comparison.

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I have 4 blogs, and I’ll be here soon =)
// jan 28: fiddling about with layouts.
// jan 29: ok, now i have to work on content.

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The page title is exceedingly important.

If you use weak keywords, your blog or website is not going to have a good placement in search engines.

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If you don’t want borders around images, try one of these.

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The post option for backdating a blog post.

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Newbie tip. If you don’t like the default blue of the Blogger Navbar, there are three other colours you can choose (there’s Blue, Tan, Black, and Silver).

According to the official Blogger Help section, if you publish a blogspot blog by FTP, you are allowed to disable the navbar.
If you’re publishing using FTP, you’ll have to […]

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So that you know what FTP, GIF, WYSIWYG, ETC (as in et cetera :P) are.

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For maximum search engine optimization, you should decide on one prefix for your domain, and stick to it.

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Whenever you see a webhosting company advertising “Unlimited Monthly Bandwidth” — rest assured this is never technically true.

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VERY IMPORTANT: Why you must ensure that *you* are the admin contact, for your domain.

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No way am I going to leave “Hello, World!” as the first post :P

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