Freelance web developer Binh Nguyen provides free advices for SEO, website design, computers, blogging & web related issues
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- Some SEO Tweaks on 8 Mar 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 [...]
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:53:15 +0000
- Site Layout Changes 7 Mar 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 [...]
Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:36:44 +0000
- This Blog is Dressing Up
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 [...]
Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:35:35 +0000
- Surprised PageRank Update in February 2008
Did you see the recent PageRank (PR) update? When did it happen? A few days ago my homepage was still at PR 2, now suddently jumped to PR 3 out of thin air without me building any massive amount of links. This is not good. I didn't prepare any new building.
I guess the update [...]
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:46:44 +0000
- Binh.name Positioned 3rd for my Own Name
It's a very big surprise for me to see my blog is listed at third position for the following keywords:
binh
binh nguyen
So what's the secret behind all this? The answer will be given at the end of this post, for now, allow me to keep on bragging.
Of course those keywords mean nothing for money and keyword [...]
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:44:51 +0000
- PunBB powers Facebook Developers Forum
This's a very accidental discovery. I found out that Facebook.com is using PunBB for their Developers Forum.
The strange thing that caught my attention is that PunBB is a very simple PHP-powered bulletin board. Why such a big company like Facebook didn't make their own forum CMS or use a commercial one such as vBulletin, or [...]
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:37:55 +0000
- BONTB Deserves to be Mentioned
It's perhaps too long since I last posted any article on the web design or blogging topic. Today I decide to break the ice by mentioning a blog that I think deserve to be mentioned. It's Blog or Not to Blog (BONTB.com). I haven't visited BONTB for a while and I notice the blog [...]
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:13:45 +0000
- Happy Valentine’s Day 2008
Yeah! Right now I'm in the Valentine's Day already. It's 2:09 AM the 14 of February when I start typing this post.
I confess, I'm in a relationship for a year already. My girlfriend's name is XingYu Wen. Her English nick name is Cindy and that's what I call her, too. She also have Facebook profile [...]
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:05:01 +0000
- Happy Chinese New Year of The Rat 2008
Happy Chinese New Year the Year of The Rat 2008! I'm sorry to start the new year with a "sorry". I've been too busy everyday on traveling and commitment other than blogging. However I still have been keeping in mind the travel blog so I keep taking hips of photos for publishing later. Stay tune [...]
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:08:26 +0000
- China Snow Disaster for Chinese New Year 2008
Chinese New Year is a great even for people in East Asia to celebrate. Northern China has snow every winter. I like snow and always wished to see snow. Now while I'm in China I thought of going to Beijing to travel and enjoy playing with snow. But things didn't go as planned.
I couldn't [...]
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:34:31 +0000
- The Future of Binh dot Name
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 [...]
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:49:28 +0000
- How to Know Your Web Page is Overweight
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. [...]
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:03:33 +0000
- How I Won a Custom Premium WordPress Theme
It's another winning without even expecting. I found Free Custom Wordpress Them and blogged about it just in the right time when I also need a New Look for My WordPress Blog for 2008.
From the beginning, I honestly complain about my current theme and tell the world that I need a new theme. After that [...]
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:57:00 +0000
- How I Won a Comment Contest
Hi, it's been a while since my last post. Finally I made sometime to do a quick post about contests last year. My blog is new but I did participate in 2 or 3 contests, surprisingly I won 2 of them:
Yeepage's comment contest, and
PlainBeta's free theme contest.
Well, I don't like the idea of combining few [...]
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:56:49 +0000
- The Best of Binh dot Name in 2007
It’s time for the ubiquitous "best of 2007" lists, so why not one for Binh dot Name? I’ll go ahead and do a round-up of the year’s best-received posts.
If you missed anything from 2007, here’s a second shot at it. While you do that, I’ll have time to figure out what to write for next [...]
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:18:11 +0000