Askmike.org

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Last week I’ve been working on a new personal website about, including my web design portfolio. I haven’t wrote a single line of code yet but I’ve been working on a website wireframe. This is a picture of how the website is going to look made in Photoshop.

After thinking about it for some time I dropped the design completely and started from scratch. This is what I came up with.

What do you think?

You’ve found a dinosaur, this post is only here for archiving purposes. The content is outdated and is not applicable anymore.

Last week I’ve been busy on how to optimize askmike.org. I think it’s better to start with an optimized website instead of optimizing it later on. Before I dive into the optimizing it is important to look at the word optimizing. When I’m talking about optimizing a website for the web (or in other words website optimizing). I’m talking about a few things at the same time:

• Semantic Markup
• Off page SEO (mostly backlinking)
• On page SEO
  • Adding Meta keywords
  • Adding Meta description
  • Trying to add more internal links by a WordPress plugin (related posts maybe?)
  • Adding a sitemap and submitting it to Google
• Making a user friendly sitemap.
• Thinking about what keywords I should aim on, what content will be posted here?
• Making it possible to share content on this site to Facebook and Twitter
• Doing some specific tweaks to the WordPress theme
• Changing the permalinks style of WordPress (more search engine and user friendly)

I’m going to document a lot of these things when I’m a little further on my research. Because right now a lot of things on the list is not finished.

I recently tried to restore an image file I made with Symantec Ghost (version 11) to a virtual machine. I have a bootable ISO file with a bootable DOS version of Symantec Ghost 11.0.2 I and the image file itself. I mounted this ISO file directly to the virtual machine as if I put a CD in the virtual tray. I was sure there was nothing wrong with the image file so I googled around a bit.

I found that Symantec has a image verifier, but in my situation the solution is much simpler.

When you mount an ISO file containing a Ghost image file located on your hard disk to your virtualisation software, you have to make sure the ISO file is not located on a NTFS partitioned hard drive (this is the default for the Windows operating system). A simple solution is to burn the ISO to a CD or DVD or to copy the ISO file to a partition formatted FAT.

You’ve found a dinosaur, this post is only here for archiving purposes. The content is outdated and is not applicable anymore.

I decided I’m going to design my own theme. Using WordPress is easy, just like selecting which theme you like but I want to go a step further and dive into the coding. I know it’s possible to adjust existing templates but that’s where you don’t learn everything, therefor I want to build my own design from the ground up.

I’m going to use this website to document the project. Right now I’m preparing a virtual machine to install WAMP so I can test my code on the fly without having to upload every changed file every time.

You’ve found a dinosaur, this post is only here for archiving purposes. The content is outdated and is not applicable anymore.

This is my first wordpress powered website.

Here I will be experimenting WordPress and eventually (hopefully) I will be designing my own themes.

have a look at my first website I made for school some weeks ago, you can find it here.