Posted in Making Money, Blog Set-Up on Jun 29th, 2007
When I first got the idea to make this site, I did not consider that it would be a such a new experience in and of itself and be something that I would write about. Making a web site was not even in my preliminary of topic ideas, but as I encountered the issues […]
Posted in Blog Set-Up on Jun 28th, 2007
I finally got the favicon to display in Internet Explorer, along with Firefox and Safari which I already had working from earlier. This took three steps. First, I installed a plug-in for Photoshop which allowed me to save the image in the ICO format. This can be found and downloaded here. […]
Posted in Blog Set-Up on Jun 28th, 2007
I worked yesterday on making my favicon which is the custom icon that shows up next to the address and in the saved links/bookmarks/favorite lists in the web browser. Basically, if you create a PNG image file that is 16×16 pixels, rename it “favicon.ico” and then save it at the root of your web […]
Posted in Blog Set-Up on Jun 27th, 2007
I’ve been trying to make it so that the site always loads with the “www” in the address regardless of whether or not it is entered in the address bar of the browser. This apparently improves the Google PageRank rating since otherwise the site may get processed as if it were two distinct sites […]
Posted in Blog Set-Up on Jun 27th, 2007
I just spent several hours experimenting with changes to the stylesheet “style.css” file and finally tweaked the header fonts and colors to how I like them. I’ve never really played with CSS before, being the old-school HTML guy that I am, but it really is not too hard to figure out. Of course, […]
Posted in Blog Set-Up on Jun 26th, 2007
I finally figured out how to play with some of the options and I was able to customize the sidebar a bit and also add the “About DeuceTech” page. Nothing else to say right now except that WordPress is actually quite easy once you start getting into it. I’m getting more excited as […]
Posted in Blog Set-Up on Jun 25th, 2007
We’ll it’s been almost a week since I decided to launch this beast and I’m still working on figuring out how to do everything to get it up the way I want it and to customize the look and feel. I just went through hundreds of templates and finally decided on this one for […]