7.22.05
The clean up is finally done!
I've been playing around with this domain for nearly 5 years. I started my humble exploration into web design with the sole desire to learn how this "stuff" was done, all the while using this site as my testing grounds.
Testing indeed. Often, the backend code used here was quickly thrown together and poorly written. While perfomance issues were miniscule, I've had a mess of a time getting this site indexed correct in various search engines. Certain pages showed up in an order that didn't make sense or were ignored all together.
Well, after getting mod_rewrite up and going, my pages finally started showing up, yet "out of order", relevance wise. Since then (quite recently I might add), I standardized all of my blog entry title bar names...which helped the most! Google and Yahoo like me now.
Even better, I've updated my RSS feed, again, so that instead of creating an actual file listing the feed pulls the info each time from the database. I can finally have an RSS feed that contains any edits I do the included. I'm also including the header link to the feed on each (necessary) page as well.
My latest victory has been one that's bugged me for nearly a year. Getting my "previous page | next page" links on my index and shameless plug pages to stop showing ".php?rowstart=xxx" in the address bar. It was sloppy. The hardest thing about it to work was one stupid, "hard coded" varible on my Plugs page that kept giving me an error. I never noticed the varible in the past, so I figure I kept doing something wrong in my .htaccess file or elsewhere. So packed it up and left it for another day. That day was today and it feels good.
So, why go through the trouble of creating my own blog when there are other free ones out there to use? Because you don't get "this" feeling at the end of the day with those!
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