Shocking Video: What happens if you drink Yakult and eat Mentos TOGETHER?
Using a PC or an Ipad? For site building, it depends
It really depends… But
The hierarchy of decisions has to be the following. If you want to build an SBI site, you should have access to a …
1. PC or Notebook/Laptop (inc. Mac) for building/maintaining your site.
2. (Optional) If you already have a PC/Mac, and want to be portable while building/maintaining your site… buy a notebook or netbook with a slightly larger screen (ie. 11"+ is good).
3. If you don’t care to be portable, and already have #1 then buy a tablet for reading/researching/emailing but don’t expect to be able to manage your site properly (see note below).
4. If you have #1 and #2 already, then a tablet is great for reading/researching/emailing but not much more.
Don’t buy a tablet and expect to build/maintain your website, unless you can plugin a keyboard & it runs Windows or a decent OS (not iOS). iOS currently lets you do many things in SBI’s system, but you cannot edit an HTML page or a BB-page properly at all, and scrolling seems to be a problem. There *may* be workarounds, but they will not be very effective unless you REALLY know what you are doing.
In the wake of the Penguin…
Many people are panicking and asking for link removals or even changing their URLs for their entire site. This proposes how you might switch a site (using SiteBuildIt) to another new domain.
While you might lose some traffic, submitting a change of URL in Google Webmaster Tools should help mitigate the issue of authorship, esp. if you continue to own the original URL, too.
For example, I might move my content from my Coffee B site to Coffee A site, then set up the change of URL in Tools for Google’s benefit. Now that my Coffee B site is no longer used, I’d set it to NPI, and redirect the domain to another (BlueHost?) hosting account, where I can do things like a site redirect with no follow in the tags.
There are huge intricacies invovled: first, you would need to move (download/upload) all your images, recreate all your C2 content EXACTLY, set up your tracker links, AND make sure your new file names matched the old ones EXACTLY.
But with a domain redirect (if you don’t know how to do this, don’t ask SBI… it’s only something that can be done on regular hosting), a file at CoffeeSiteB/cool-drink.html would redirect exactly to CoffeeSiteA/cool-drink.html, a tracker link would also similarly work, and C2 links would be preserved.
I wouldn’t do this to preserve links, so much as to preserve links that PEOPLE follow. But with anything but a small site, this is a huge amount of work.
For me, though, I see value in doing this, but I wouldn’t be doing it to escape the wild animals…
In short, given the links issue and the hard work for changing URLs, I wouldn’t be too quick to change. It’s uncertain what changes Google will make in the future, and you may end up doing more damage in the end.
Warning about Penguin: Don’t for God’s Sake OVERREACT!!!!
Increasingly, some people are concerned about the links that I have placed in posts, and may request that these links be removed. However, I freely place ALL of my links (whether I receive payment or not - see the disclaimer), and will generally not accept requests to remove links. Why? Because the web is exactly that, that is its core function to link one site to another with relevance, authenticity and value to the reader. This is what I believe I have done.
However, a lot of webmasters have gone out of their way to create hundreds or thousands of spammy links to their sites, such tactics worked until recently updates by Google penalized such backlinks. Spammy links are links that are obviously junk: regurgitated paragraphs, snipped content, garbage blogs, spammy comments, directory spam, … and so on. So, if you have lots of spammy links, by all means, remove them.
But blog links, like the links in this blog, are not spammy. Obblogatory has never, and never will be, a link farm; nor will we create webspam. And I warn you: I’d urge any advertiser seeking to remove links to make sure that removal of links is actually in their interest, and in the interest of their website, because it’s quite easy to remove a whole five years of linking work, and then you will never get your ranking back, because you nixed the good links with the bad links.
In fact, it wouldn’t be too difficult to imagine a scenario where you nix entire backlogs of links to get rid of some spammy links, only to find out that, like the Greek Debt Debacle, the proportion of bad links to good links has actually grown, not shrunk. So be careful what you wish for. You may actually get it.
How we spent rainy days
Every time I hear mention of a jigsaw puzzle my mind races back to days spent with my grandmother. This was mostly on weekends when my parents were having a night out on the town or something like that.
Me and some cousins would spend the weekend with grandmother and when we would come inside from playing outdoors, our grandmother would give us books to read and jigsaw puzzles to put together. She did not care to see us watching a lot of television, so she would keep us preoccupied with other things.
Jigsaw puzzles were always at the top of her list because she enjoyed working them herself. One weekend when we were there, it rained the whole first day. Me and three of my cousins sat and put together a 250 piece jigsaw puzzle. Grandmother helped, of course. That was a big achievement for us all since it was the first time we had actually completed one. This particular one had cats on it. My grandmother was also an animal lover.
To this day I prefer working jigsaw puzzles with pictures of animals and my greatest challenge is being able to complete a puzzle, even if there are not very many pieces.
Orlando: Here We Come
I once took a trip to Orlando when I was younger. My family had won a contest and got the chance to go to Orlando for a week. We did a lot of things on our trip, and they were all great. Check out the other activities in Orlando in my other post. Check out http://www.orlandovacation.com for more information.
We started off by going to Disney World. We went there 4 of the 7 days that we were there. We had a blast. All the rides and entertainment were just great. The lines weren’t too bad, and the weather was good.
We spent the rest of our time at Universal Studios. Some of the entertainment we saw there was amazing. The rides there were great too.
The hotel we stayed at was well priced and clean. We got a rental car for our stay in Orlando as well. The selection of cars was great and affordable.
All in all, I had the best vacation of my life in Orlando. I would love to go back.
What on earth is a: turnbuckle?
Thanks to my internet friend, Wyrd, for answering this question: What is a turnbuckle? I know what a buckle is …
This is Wyrd, here to tell you about turnbuckles. Simply put, it is a device used to change the tensions or lengths of cables, tie rods, ropes, etc. For example, they are used on the corners of wrestling rings to tense the ropes.
A turnbuckle has two threaded eyelets, a hook and a hole, which are held in a frame. The rope, cable or tie rod is attached to one end, the other end is secured, and the attached rope can be tightened or made more or less tense by turning the frame in which the eyelets rest. It’s as simple as that!
Now, for a little fun, and frivolous, use of turnbuckles for your Remote Control Vehicle! Hah!
A pretty flower: Beitou Public Park Pond
Taken in Beitou Park, today.
What fabrics would you consider the best for your Target collection?
It’s rare that a fashion designer who is 28 years old can garner as much attention as Jason Wu did in 2008 when he designed the gown that Michelle Obama wore to the inauguration ball! What an accolade for a Taiwanese designer! (picture linked to story).
When asked what fabrics he liked for his Target collection, I wonder what he might say: " The best contemporary fabric that l like to work with is cotton blended in pastel colors. The permanent press type is beautiful with easy to wash instructions, no ironing required and often made of stain resistant material. These fabrics can have a consistency that makes them easy to cut, stitch and generally handle. They are also light weight and hold their shape well. It is delightful, fun and easy to work with new fabrics that are enhanced by technology…"
Jason, how would you answer this question? Check out his collection at Literature & Lace’s Review.
