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Now that the first week of the Adsense Challenge is almost over, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at my past goals, and set some new ones for week two.

MAs you may have noticed, This blog recently underwent another facelift. It’s still a work in progress, but I figured I would go into a little detail about the changes, and why I made them.

As you can see, this blog recently underwent a facelift. It’s not as drastic as the last time I updated this blog, but I was toying with it, wanted to give it a cleaner look, and ended up with this. I figured it would be an interesting look at the design process to examine the [...]

The number one thing that kills most blogs is that people cannot update them regularly.  Maybe they lose interest or move on to other projects, or are just to busy. I’ll be honest, it’s happened to me before.

I was reading Shoemoney’s blog the other day, and one of his posts mentioned how he would have his bigger, large-scale projects, and smaller ones on the side to make money while the larger ones were in production.  I’ve decided to start a quick project just as soon as I get around to coding the [...]

Things in my life have calmed down a little bit, and I have some more free time to devote to my web site projects. I realized I haven’t really given my all to a website, one that I make from design to development, to running and marketing. two of my [...]

The main thing that made me want to move my site over to Wordpress was all the different plug-ins you can install. I’ve got a number of them running now, and I wanted to give you all a little insight into the ones I’m using, how they work, and what they do.

(Originally Posted January 11, 2008)
I’ve just started a 2nd job, and the new semester of school just started, so my blog posts here aren’t going to be as frequent as they once were. hopefully I’ll be able to still make a few posts a week. SO here is what’s been going on lately.

Kontera
I’ve implemented Kontera, which uses in-line text advertising, into all of my sites. I’ll give it a go for a little while and see how it works. While it can be mildly annoying when you scroll over it, I don’t think it will have any real negative effects on the sites. You’ll notice I even [...]

(Originally Posted on December 28, 2007)
Welcome to the new blog! This one will probably be only temporary, as I want everything on my homepage to be things I’ve coded from scratch. I’m having a little trouble with mySQL at the moment, so I’m just going to do my blogging here for now. This is the [...]