Thursday, September 01, 2005

September 1st...bring on the Fall Westerlys! One of the worst Summers for surf I can remember. Only a handful of South Swells that were too steep angled (180) to create any decent waves to ride. Just walls. I'll take the cold water as long as I get some sweet A-frame peaks to ride!

Monday, August 01, 2005

Eventhough Surfline.com has all the cams, and many, many other desirable features, the site layout is such a $"#$#ing mess. Plus, they keep changing the cam programming. Now it pumps the images through Flash. Totally unnecessary, and isn't as functional as the previous version. These companies keeping fixing things that ain't broke! It's those marketing people. "If we put more ads, make the cams more inaccessible, people will sign up for the full service." Here's a news Flash - "No they won't". If you make your site easy to navigate, easy to use and don't fill it up with a bunch of poorly placed ads, more people will come to your site - and more people will transalate into more signups. Read the goddamn web usuability reports you clowns!

Saturday, July 02, 2005



Monday, June 13, 2005

The latest algorithim used by most search engines now analyzes and weighs your incoming links and ranks your site accordingly. This means that inbound links to your website must be from "relevant" and "legitimate" websites that are preferably ranked high themselves, although the more inbound links, probably, the better. As long as they're not from link farms (irrelevant) and other sketchy SEO tactical maneuvers. This type of SEO campaign is not only time consuming, but also requires effort on behalf of the website owner or a key employee themselves, because they'll need to decide what kinds of "relevant" websites they would like to exchange links with in their "link campaign". More later...

Friday, May 27, 2005

This cracks me up. Make sure to put in a url for text based website, like
a news site or just hit one of the Most Popular links on the main page. Pretty funny stuff: Gizoogle

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Always a good source for Techie news on the net...
Wired News

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Organic Rankings vs. Paid For Rankings: I found this interesting in one of the newsletters I get regarding SEO (particularly in bold): "Don't forget that you can always just use PPC ads and not worry about the organic/natural results. That is a very real option these days, and for those not willing to compromise a wee bit to gain natural rankings, it's probably the best one." The operative words being "compromise a wee bit". Basically, this means...your website becomes mostly carefully crafted copy reflected by keyword rich title tags and links, not to mention strategic incoming links from legitimate and decently ranked websites. Kiss your heavy graphic and flash sites goodbye...

Sunday, April 03, 2005

I suppose the internet will continue to be a Wild West Frontier due to the fact that people can get on it from anywhere now. In every random sample, there are always a few bad seeds, or at least ones that will try to get an edge via the use of fraud or trickery, that make it an unsafe playing field ("Phishing")...hence the Wild West. Make sure to carry your six-shooters.

Saturday, March 26, 2005

It's amazing to me that this kind of a product still exists. Search Engine Cloaker It should indicate that lying to the search engines and trying to trick them will subject you to penalties amounting to complete removal of your website from their engine. Opps. They didn't mention that did they? This one's up there with putting a bunch of keyword links on your website and making them the same color as the background. Unbelieveable. How do these guys keep on going? The general public - not too bright. Just look at all the SUVs on the road. Brilliant. Good times.

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Skiing up in Mammoth Mountain this weekend. Pretty nice. Stormy. Good snow conditions. Big snow year. Great way to start Spring!

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Getting down to finishing some ongoing projects, like for example, this website's redesign. Look for new projects to be posted in the next week or so.

Friday, February 25, 2005

Just found out that you cannot upload pictures or use some, actually all, of the features that allow you to change the text, etc, on blogger, if you're using a Mac. Dang! You'd think that it would be cross-platform friendly, but no way! It always looks easier than it really is. Should've double checked under help. Oh well.

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Wow. Weeks almost over and so is the month. Amazing how the time goes by..........................................................................................................................

Sunday, February 13, 2005

Just had dinner with my folks. It was great!

Friday, February 11, 2005

Man! I tell you. I just want to create a simple site that I can update easily as I go along. The minute I want to do something cool though...like have a content CSS Layer that has anchored links to it from outside of the layer.... forget about it. It's possible to do, but the question is do I want to have to deal with everytime I update my website? The answer is no. Been there, done that. What happens is I'll never update my website. Once again....keep it simple.