http://kenninghall.com/blog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I added the initial pages to my geocaching site for the Geocaching Gifts section. There is only one t-shirt design posted so far, but plenty more will be added soon. The first hurdle is always getting new pages indexed, so that people searching for the topic will find it. One ... http://kenninghall.com/blog/2009/11/19/geocaching-gifts/ Just launched the newest of our sites, art-deco-posters.com, which I started back in August as part of the Thirty Day Challenge. There is a huge amount of work to do to get it to the point I want, but I felt it was time to submit it to the search ... http://kenninghall.com/blog/2009/11/11/our-sites-fall-2009/ I've been experimenting with web programming and site building for a few years now, but it has been on an as time permits basis. It is something I hope to be a skill I can add to my I.T. resume. All the sites I worked on before have never generated ... http://kenninghall.com/blog/2009/05/11/getting-traffic/ I finally got around to activating the Akismet plugin that is supposed to automatically flag spam comments. I get lots of those so lets see how well it does. http://kenninghall.com/blog/2009/05/07/no-more-spam/ I recently created two new sites. Both are WordPress based and hosted at BlueFur. The first is aURL which is a site about URL shortening and redirection services. I still have lots of work to do on this one, but I think it can become a useful resource once it has ... http://kenninghall.com/blog/2009/04/30/new-sites-from-kenninghall-creations/ If anyone who creates websites says "The Sandbox", it is probably all that is necessary to make other web masters nod their heads in a minor display of commiseration. Any new site stands a chance of feeling the effect of the Google's mythical sandbox where a sites search rankings are ... http://kenninghall.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-sandbox/ I saw DevHub mentioned at SitePoint yesterday, so I thought I would sign up and check it out. I spent about an hour playing with the tools creating two sites. Both are setup as subdomains of devhub.com which is one option or you can point your own domains to the ... http://kenninghall.com/blog/2009/04/01/new-web-site-service-devhub/ SitePoint is an Australian based company in the Web Design/Development domain. They publish quite a few books related to this field, and I have a number of them in my library already. To raise money to help the victims for the bushfires in their country, they are currently offering a deal ... http://kenninghall.com/blog/2009/02/11/buy-books-and-help-australian-bushfire-victims/ Did you know smoke detectors expire? It was news to me. At 10pm last night two of my smoke detectors started chirping intermittently. Figuring the batteries needed changing since I missed doing it last time we changed the clocks, I went to get my step stool. Normally I would use ... http://kenninghall.com/blog/2009/01/30/check-your-smoke-detector-date/ As usual the blog has been neglected for far too long. I was prompted to logon by a stream of spam comments that have been arriving every few minutes to one of the posts for the last couple of days; several hundred in total. So, I have erased all of ... http://kenninghall.com/blog/2009/01/06/finally-a-new-post/