Website Development

Quit changing things!

December 23, 2005

I tend to constantly change things around. I update something, make it better, and then everything changes. I do it habitually too. You've probably noticed the new template for this website. You'll probably notice more in the future, or maybe not. With SEO, change can be bad. I just changed my site CLiX Network to [...]

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Getting your PHP Info

December 23, 2005

One of the first things you should learn how to do with PHP, is getting all the info about your PHP installation. Sometimes you'll see a script that says it requires a certain setting to be one way. If you don't know, you could be purchasing something you can't use. It is as simple as [...]

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New Collage

December 20, 2005

Check out the home page. I got a collage up so it looks cool: http://www.timlinden.com

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Blog Links

December 13, 2005

Welcome to my Blog Links page. Here I'll post all the links and such, instead of putting them on the main navigation sidebar dohicky. Blogs I subscribe To http://www.bloglines.com/public/xxclixxx Blogs that Link to Me http://www.technorati.com/search/www.nednil.com My Members' Blogs http://forum.startxchange.com/b-general/m-1131746897/ Blogs I feel like linking to: The Marketing Professional Anna-Marie Stewart StartXchange Blog Performancing.com The Old [...]

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Writing Good Content

November 27, 2005

If you want to drive people to your website, you can't just rely on tips to get it known. If you have bad content, they'll come, they'll leave, and they'll remember to not come back. Writing good content isn't too hard. Below I've come up with a list of guidelines for you to pick and [...]

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Search Engine Accuracy

November 26, 2005

I've been finding this site randomly throughout the internet, so I figured I'd write a little about it. Basically this website is setup so you enter your search terms, and then it shows you the results from Google, MSN, and Yahoo in random order. You then vote on which one gave the best results. It's [...]

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CLIX NETWORK CONVERSION

November 23, 2005

I am in the process of converting CLIX NETWORK over to WordPress. WordPress is much more flexible and easy to use than the backend I have created. The goal is to make all my websites more easily managable and then to expand.

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Choosing Good Titles

November 19, 2005

Choosing a good title is extremely important for any website. Titles should grab your user's attention, and make known exactly what is going to be presented - at the same time. With blogging, it is even more important to choose good titles for your posts. If they subscribe to your RSS Feed, they'll likely see [...]

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Using Blog Feeds

November 18, 2005

If you have a couple of favorite blogs, you probably like to know when they are updated, and may even have trouble keeping track of them. There is a very easy way to keep on top of them all, and I'll explain how here. A quick explaination: A feed is basically a simple version of [...]

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Tough Decision

November 18, 2005

I think I've made up my mind. I am going to focus more on NedNil.com, rather than CLiX Network. At least for posting articles and content. I'd like to have an actual network of some sort, but I'm not sure how it will all fit together. The idea of having it so people can contribute [...]

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The affect of Links on Search Engines

November 18, 2005

Search engines are becoming more and more advanced all the time. They no longer rely just on meta tags to rank your site highly, some ignore them completely. It started with Google, and now others are using links to determine your relevancy. The idea is simple: If a site about Search Engines links to a [...]

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Custom PHP Programming

November 17, 2005

If you've ever wanted your site to have something like a lead capture page, a members area, or some other kind of page that requires interaction from the user, than Custom PHP Programming may be for you! Custom PHP programming can also include service kind of sites. For instance, if you ever wanted your own [...]

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List of Directories

November 14, 2005

In my previous post, Getting your Blog Known, I talked about adding your blog to directories. Well I was surfing BlogAzoo and came across The Tlog which linked to the RSSTop55. This page has tons of directories and RSS submission sites, I highly recommend you visit it.

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Getting your Blog Known

November 12, 2005

I figured that since this blog is very new, and I'm doing all these things to get it known by other services, I might as well post a quick list of things to do when starting a new blog to get the word spread about your blog. Setup ya Pings! Well the biggest way to [...]

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Ministry Talk

October 29, 2005

My friend Justin and I are developing a new website, MinistryTalk.com - It is pretty cool. Justin is working on having a place for Church's to upload sermons for users to download. He is making it be able to convert the mp3s to lower quality. I'll be working on a section for ministry blogs and [...]

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PHP Date QuickList

October 8, 2005

First we need to breifly go over how the date function works. It is fairly straightforward: string date ( string format [, int timestamp] ) You simply pass a string containing the date format, and a timestamp if you don't want to use the current time. Something to note: Any character that isn't recognized by [...]

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Working at Panera

October 6, 2005

I am working at Panera right now. I made some coffee at home, it came out bad. Jon IMed me and I asked him if he wanted to go to Panera. So we did, and are here now. I got a coffee and it tasted bad too. So I filled my coffee cup with soda. [...]

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PHP Multi-Page MySQL Results

September 24, 2005

If you use any search engine, they will all limit the number of results per page. Some searches can return millions of pages! Now what about your site? Do you have any pages that return more than 30 items? You can easily break that down into 10 items per page. In this example, I will [...]

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CSS Classes

September 22, 2005

CSS CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is used to bring style to websites. Things you can do with style sheets are but not limited to: Change the scrollbar's properties. Work with any html tag in CSS. and the list goes on. In this article however, we are going to go over how to [...]

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HTTP authentication with PHP

September 21, 2005

In my last article I showed you how to Password Protect with htaccess and htpasswd, and how to use PHP to add to your htpasswd file. In this article, I'll show you how to use HTTP authentication, just like using htaccess, but this time you'll be able to verify the login against a database. So [...]

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