Subscribe via RSSSome SEO Tweaks on 8 Mar 2008
March 8, 2008
I've made a few more changes. This times it's especially for SEO purpose.
Blog Title
I change my blog name from 'Webmaster Binh Nguyen's Blog | Binh.name' to 'SEO Web Designer Binh Nguyen'.This title more accurately describes my position. Firstly 'webmaster' doesn't need to have strong programming skills. Secondly, although I'm more a web developer (more coding) than a web designer (more designing) but people don't use the term web developer as often as web designer.
Another point to be noticed is that I practice more SEO design than Graphic design. That's why now I choose SEO Web Designer.
Tags: binh.name, blog, decision, SEO, Tweak, Web design
Site Layout Changes 7 Mar 2008
March 7, 2008
There are some major changes been going on my blog in the last 2 days. And so far, I have made changes to the theme, the pages, and the categories. Which I describe in more details here.
New Temporary Theme
First of all, it's a must mention that I have officially adapt this temporary professional theme. You can read some info about that here This Blog is Dressing Up. I already spotted out a few bugs since I applied the theme. Since then, I did fix some and still have some. So could you please, do me a favor and leave me some comment on what type of bug you see?
Tags: binh.name, blog, Blogging, google, layout, plan, Web design
This Blog is Dressing Up
March 5, 2008
WARNING: SITE MAINTENANCE IS IN PROGRESS! I have been absent from posting for few days again. This period I've been working hard on a new temporary theme. This theme is mainly reversed engineered from the Revolution Tech theme, so don't be surprise if most of the layout look similar to that.
Testing
If you see strange screen clutter, misplaced elements, strange/wrong category/tag names, strange format, PLEASE DON'T PANIC. Check back a day later, if the problems still occur please kindly send me an email, or simply leave a comment here.
Tags: layout, Theme, Web design, WordPress Theme
The Future of Binh dot Name
January 23, 2008
I've been busy these few days and haven't post as many useful posts as I should. My apologies for that. I would like to restate a few reasons here and I hope to receive your suggestions. The reasons are:
- This blog is being redesigned.
- New sub domains or domains are coming up.
- The URL structure is not finalized.
If you are kind-hearted, knowledgeable and give me suggestions, I will have rewards for you too. Don't worry, the minimum I could give you are some good keyword back links to your site from my PR3 blog. I'm not rich now so my pocket money is limited. I can make some nice award if what you give change my life.
Tags: Binh, binh.name, blogger, Blogging, decision, dog, google, keyword, photoshop, SEO, software, url, Web design, Work, WP, writing
How to Know Your Web Page is Overweight
January 13, 2008
Do you make this mistake as a blogger: leaving your blog grow as big as it can and become overweight? This article focus on teaching you how to check up the weight (size in KB) of your web page. You can find here:
- Manually check the size;
- Using calculation tools; and
- The negative effect on visitors
1. Manually check the size
Here is how you can manually check the weight of webpage:
1. Press Ctrl+S for short. Or on Firefox click File > Save Page As..., on Internet Explorer click File > Save As...
Tags: analysis, Blogging, tools, Web design
How to Structure a Blogger Blog Like a Website
December 7, 2007
Nealey Russo who initiated the article AdSense Help for "Used Cars Under $1000" contacted me again via the Help page asking for help. This time she have difficulty in making a blog that has the structure of a web site. This article will answer the questions "How do I structure a Blogger Blog Like a Website?" and it has the following sections:
- Problems
- Analysis
- Answers
- Recommendations
Problems
Here is the quote of what Nealey wrote:
Hi Binh,
First I want to thank you for all your help.
Tags: blogger, Blogging, blogspot, Web design, WP
Major Issues With common Blog Layout
November 21, 2007
Yesterday I checked my blog and was too surprise about something... the actual weight in term of Kilobytes. By saying that I mean, our blogs are not just heavy, they are too heavy.
Shocking Findings
I checked my own blog and here are some shocking results:
- Over 512KB for the home page and
- Over 380KB for single post.
Currently most blogs have too heavy home page, extra heavy category pages, and heavy single post page. A very good example is John Chow dot Com. His home page cost over 1MB of disk-space and bandwidth.
Tags: analysis, Blogging, mistake, Web design
Top 10 Blog URL Considerations
November 12, 2007
It's a common for people to have dilemma during a decision making time. I'm no exception. My blog is up for a week now and I had spent a long time on deciding a few things.
I am asking myself "what is the best URL structure?" I want to achieve this URL structure for my "Binh dot Name" and all the following websites I create. The matter is that, I already spent a month or so thinking about this without getting the final decision. Along with the CMS choice, this URL thing delayed me from publishing my blog for too long until I finally fed up of waiting and decide to "Just do it".
Tags: Blogging, SEO, url, Web design
