People who monetize their websites know that the first thing an advertiser is going to want to know is how heavy their traffic is. Not everyone gets thousands of hits every day but a good blog should be in the one thousand range most days. An excellent blog will be in the five to ten…
The New Theme
‘Well, here it is, my new theme.It still has a few wrinkles in it but I was ready for something new. This is a learning experience for me as this is the first theme I have designed. There are some things I like about this theme and some things I do not.Over the course of…
New theme sneak peak
Here is a quick (cropped) screen cap of my work on the new theme.Click on the image to see it full size.The color scheme will be red/black and there will be rounded corners (among other things). I’m also going to use excerpts on the front page and utilize my footer space better than I do…
BENEFITS, PARADES, & A WEIRD AL CONCERT:STORMTROOPERS DO ‘EM ALL IN SEPTEMBER
Hi Folks,Just as the title says, The 501st Legion will be making MANY appearances during the month of September. Some are benefits, some are promos, ALL ARE FUN. Come join us, won’t you?EMPIRE CITY GARRISON EVENT: Invisible Children/ Project: RestorationDate: 9/8/07Time: eveningPlace:New York City’s Columbus Park ,between Mulberry and Baxter This gig benefits TWO organizations:Â Invisible…
Notes on the pending theme change
‘A few days ago I wrote about my desire to put a new face on this blog. I am in the middle of designing a new wordpress theme just for me and I’d like to tell you a few things about it before I change over.One of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to…
Quartile wins Major fun award!
My new game Quartile recently won a Major Fun award. My only complaint is that it won in the family category and not the thinking category.Don’t forget, my current Quartile contest runs out on September 15, 2007. what are you waiting for?If you want to order a copy be sure to go to the website.
Metroid Prime 3 Launch photos from the Nintendo World Store in NYC
‘On August 27, 2007 the Nintendo world Store released the new Metroid Prime 3: Corruption game to the mass of eager fans waiting outside. check out these cool pics form the event.Nintendo fans lined up as early as 4 a.m. at Nintendo World in New York to purchase Nintendo’s new Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for…
When designing a new theme don’t forget your visitors!
A few blogs I read recently went under the knife and came out with new Themes. One such blog is John Chow dot com who has a much improved appearance thanks to the work of Nate Whitehill of Unique Blog Design. As nice as John’s new theme is I have to say that on my…
New Digg says, “You must watch videos!!!”
OK, is this some sort of joke? Why is Digg forcing me to include at least one category of videos?After the last site redesign Digg removed videos from the front page all together. Now that they have added them back they are forcing me to include at least one category of videos in my home…
The Vista move: Day 1, Easy Transfer
I know many of you are wondering how our first day with Vista went, well, it was not so good. The computers themselves are good and Vista on it’s own looks nice but we needed something done right away; we needed our files.Because we have a 100Mb home network I did not buy the overpriced…
The Vista move: Day 2, Where are my Mozilla settings?
Here it is, day two. Last night I let the Transfer Agent run all night long on my laptop yet some of my settings did not transfer over. I am talking about Firefox, the browser I prefer to use.After a little bit of work I manually transfered over my Firefox data and now I’m going…
Nintendo News: Wii kicking butt!
Have you heard the news? The Wii is kicking major butt all over the place! Not bad for a system with no games, eh?Wii emerged as the month’s best-selling video game system of any type in the United States and achieved its highest weekly sales rates since December, despite pricing shifts in the industry, according…