Tagged: Blogging

Our New Look: Why Our Next Design Will Be Running on The Genesis Framework

Sometime this week we will unveil our brand new design, and it’s a big improvement. As a tech blogger, I’m naturally inclined to put a thought into any technological decision I make, and this design was no exception. Despite the thousands of free themes out there, I chose to shell out a good amount to run on the Genesis Framework, and here’s why. The...

An Interview With Technology’s “Kingmaker”- Walter Mossberg

Technology moves so fast, and no one has done a better job of explaining every new technology to consumers than Walter Mossberg, founder of the popular technology blog AllthingsD, and creator of the personal technology column in The Wall Street Journal. Mossberg has interviewed everyone from Bill Gates, to Mark Zuckerberg, to Steve Jobs. Mossberg’s writing has brought him numerous awards and given him...

Sorry. No Post Until Tonight. Fixing Our Tech Issues Took Hours

My apologies for not putting out a post in time for our newsletter. We were trying to fix a problem which ended up bringing the whole site down and it took two hours to fix. We’ll hopefully have something up tonight but we’re back. For those who want to know more: When testing configurations, we used a corrupt theme which then crashed the whole...

The New WordPress Update Is Here: Update ASAP 12/11/2012

This is a reminder to everyone with a WordPress site out there that you need to update…like now. WordPress 3.5 is out, and it’s really important to update yours as soon as possible. Why? Read on. I’ve seen a ridiculous amount of WordPress sites that were hacked because they simply didn’t have the latest version of WordPress, and there were holes which hackers got...

Do 404 and 410 Errors Hurt your Site and SEO

OH NO! PAGE NOT FOUND! THE WORLD IS ENDING. Nope. Somebody just clicked on/typed a bad link. And it ended up on Google. So is Google going to punish you for it? Is google furious that your content disappeared? Nope. Google’s perspective is that it happens to everyone. They officially state that 404s are completely OK. Why is it OK? As the web grows, old...