Archive for November, 2007

So you’ve read WordPress Setup Part 1 and setup WordPress so it has nice, pretty, descriptive URLs. Now you’re done right? Well, not exactly. WordPress default installs are great for crawlability, meaning that because it has links all over the place, the search engines can always find a path to any article. On the bad [...]

Avoid duplicate content and add meta titles in Wordpress...

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Making Your WordPress URLs Work For You

WordPress URLs by default aren’t real helpful. They give your visitor no information about the page. They add nothing to the information in your search listings. And they tell the search engines nothing about your page. That’s three wasted opportunities and it’s dead simple to fix.

Thoughts on choosing URLs in Wordpress...

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Why elephants have flat feet

Q. What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants coming over the hill? A. “Look! Here come the elephants!” Q. What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants coming over the hill wearing dark glasses? A. Nothing. He didn’t recognize them. Q. Why do elephants have wrinkled knees? A. Their pink tennis shoes [...]

Bad elephant jokes »

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Safari for Windows. No Thanks!

I’ve always wanted to be able to try out Apple’s Safari browser, but I’ve never really had the chance since I own a Windows computer and don’t plan on buying another one anytime soon (though my next computer might be an Apple). So now Apple has released Safari in beta for Windows. Excellent! Or maybe [...]

Read why Safari is not installed on my machine »

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I totally messed things up with a botched uninstall of Adobe CS3 [update: although, as you'll see below, some people have used this on Adobe CS4 as well and I would bet this works for CS5 too]. Basically, all I was trying to do was get rid of the absurd and unnecessary Version Cue Server, [...]

Fix your bad CS3 install »

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Welcome to Raised by Turtles

Welcome to my brain dump. I have no idea what will end up on this site, but basically, I’m planning to use it to put some fiction up that has languised on my hard drive for years and also to be a sort of external memory to keep track of various things I learn. The [...]

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