Category Archives: Website Stuffs

A look at web design, search engine optimization, and the general state of the internet.

Forgetting Old Domains

I always forget about moldy old sites I own, and then I saw another automatic renewal for Point-of-sale.us, which covers point of sale systems.. I think the content on there is about 5 years old. Maybe I should clean it up. Maybe.

Opera 3.0 Mini

Opera released version 3.0 of their mini mobile browser today. I’m a-gonna have to download it. I’ve always been an advocate of developing sites that were mobile friendly (provided they are sites that a mobile user would find useful.)
They are of course dropping the “web 2.0″ buzzwords, but have some added nifty features such as

Some minor site hacks

I added a message board to BarFly Magazine the other day. I really need to install the static url mod, much like I did on my Redding forum.
I had problem when I initally did the static urls, it wasn’t letting me get into the PHPBB admin panel. Not sure what was causing that.
I tend

More Vents

After taking many custom orders for octagon gable vents, I figured it was time to add them to TheBuilderStore.com. It only made sense, since we were probably missing out on traffic from those kinds of search queries.

Update your stuff

Dr. James Kilgore, a plastic surgeon in Portland, has recently expanded his service offerings. In addition to offering botox in Portland, he is also offering Restylane and Hylaform Plus®.
It’s great to see that my clients keep up on updating their sites with new information. That will always translate into more revenues for them.

Search Positioning is Power

I’ve been recently watch many of my sites climb to #1 – #3 spots for their terms across all of major search engines. This has been a slow process, for some sites it took years. I hadn’t even checked my logs for monthes on one particular site, and when I finally did, I saw that

Portland Directory launched

Seems that where ever I live, I always end up making a website or twenty about it. For instance, during my time spent in Redding California, I made a web directory about it. Not only that, but I also built up two other sites.
So now I’ve been back in Portland for 8 months or so,

New Products Added

I have recently added Rectangle Gable Vents to TheBuilderStore.com gable end vent inventory. This has lead to an increased number of inquiries from homeowners due in part to search engine traffic and Froogle feeds. While my true goal is to sell to home builders, contractors, and architects, increasing the sales volume from homeowners does

Adobe to Buy Macromedia

Adobe to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion
This could either be the best thing, or the worst thing in the world for a few reasons:
(1) Getting rid of Macromedia Freehand and just using Adobe Illustrator would be great
(2) Getting rid of Adobe GoLive and keeping Dreamweaver would be awesome.
(3) Using the web graphic tools in Fireworks

Google Local Wireless

Looks like google has set up a wireless local search, according to WebProNews. This is simply awesome, I tried to do a similar thing with PDXbars Wireless ( mob.pdxbars.com ). Unfortunately, I don’t have the good search algorithm, and quite frankly, typing on wireless devices sucks. Perhaps with scripting an autofill feature for wireless browsers