Mike Goad on December 30th, 2007

Earlier today, I was reading a humourous blog post, My SERP Success Story Or, How to Kill Dog for Cooking and I decided to do a short review of it on Stumbleupon.
I also did something I never do. I let Chanya, the author of the post, know that I stumbled it.
She sent me [...]

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Mike Goad on December 22nd, 2007

After posting Be careful and don’t post your draft… unless you mean to! yesterday, guess what I did?
That’s Right!
I hit publish before I was ready to.
Yesterday, I wrote: “Generally the post is essentially done, but I’ve not proofed it for errors or not identified the tags or some other relatively [...]

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A year is a long time in the on-line world. A large percentage of the blogs out there today will shrivel up and disappear by the end of 2008. Many others will still be there, but posting on them will have slowed down to a trickle… or will have stopped all together. [...]

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Mike Goad on December 21st, 2007

I’ve just been using Google Reader for several weeks now and have already seen some instances where people have inadvertently posted a draft and then retracted it when they realized it. The first one I saw was one on Opal Tribble’s Vegan Momma and I think that another was on Dan Rinnert’s DCR Blogs. [...]

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Mike Goad on December 3rd, 2007

 

Yesterday, I downloaded Expression Web, Microsoft’s replacement for FrontPage. After getting past a few exasperating points, I was able to start doing a few things that I’ve never been able to do with any of the web page programs that I’ve ever had. A quick example is overlapping of images in a web [...]

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Mike Goad on November 23rd, 2007

So much for following through on my plan not to make any more major changes until ‘08.
I did like the WordPress theme that I was using, but it wasn’t able to do some the things that can be done using WordPress 2.3. Even some of the capabilities it did have didn’t produce [...]

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Sunset over the Black Hills

The problem looks like it’s with the visual editor. Whenever an existing post is opened, the WordPress visual editor apparently tries to clean up some of the messy code. Unfortunately, some of that code is what was providing the layout that I had selected [...]

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