I am not yet done with this blog’s redesign. Anyway, I just made a quick drop to inform all of you about contest. Here’s one that will appeal to those who are into those geeky programming stuff like me:
Are you the next XML superstar?
This contest is being made to raise familiarity in XQuery, XML and [...]

Entrecard is a way to promote a blog and in addition, to increase traffic.

One of the first things I did with Twitter was to announce what I am working on. As I use Twitter more often, I noted that many bloggers had been using it to promote their blog posts. Like many of these enlightened bloggers I followed what they had been doing and began to announce my [...]

I got “busy” updating other social networks which had made me not to update this post often. I even removed EC dropping from my daily routine.
The brief blogging absence made me realize that I had to define priorities in what I need to accomplish each day. I had to remove some of the tasks to [...]

I got to use Plurk, Twitter and Facebook at the same time for a number of days. Since I got a lot of social networks in my list, I thought I could synchronize updates using only one tool – ping.fm is a good thing to keep these three updated. At first I thought that ping.fm [...]

I was offline yesterday. I decided to do put in some downtime and do preventive maintenance work. In the long run it does wonders.

photo credit: elekesmagdi {Flickr}

What’s my preventive maintenance duty like?

Recovering hard disk space

deleting unneeded personal files (to make my files more manageable)

deleting old installers, drivers and updates (they take too much space and [...]

I had mentioned previously that there are freelance SEO skills is always sought in many web design jobs. Many clients are now finding people who can optimize their sites for search engines.
Here are some job offers found in various freelance sites:

Web designer and SEO optimization
Need assistance updating current eCommerce website selling childrens products.  Need images [...]

UPDATE: Hoops! Almost forgot, thanks to Pastilan for emailing me a copy of SEO Optimization.
I’ve previously mentioned about my quest to learn SEO skills which is a growing demand in freelance jobs. Even before I put out that post, there are a number of people who had been asking me through email or through [...]

I got out of doing web pages as a freelancer to discover what SEO is. Some of you may know that SEO simply stands for search engine optimization. Why did I do this? There is quite a growing demand for these skills in constructing new websites.
As I tried to scour the web to know more [...]

I am glad to extend help in fixing Joop’s Sailor’s Adventures and Opinions blog. For a week I could not the view blog through my feed reader. I can view the blog using the old blogspot domain, but not with their newly purchased “www.sailorsmusings.com” domain.

Joops is one regular visitor of this blog. His wife, Chubkulit, [...]