TravelingWebGuy

So I’ve had my blog up for almost two years, though I haven’t advertised it much, scratch that, never told anyone about it. But since I have started all my preparations for my travel plans I’ve been positing like a crack fiend lately. And in doing all this planing, posting, purchasing stuff, I’ve been creating social media sites, adding plugins to my blog to help with SEO purposes and I have seen the positive effect it’s had.

So, now, when you do a Google search for “travelingwebguy” I practically own the entire first page of results! How about dem apples and SEO optimization! And in doing these searches and getting the results I wanted, I decided to make it 100% proof by ordering the domain to go along with the alias. So now that I own the domain, and it already points to my blog, it just reinforces and adds extra quality and relevancy to my search results.

TravelingWebGuy – www.travelingwebguy.com – That’s me!

P.S.
Yes, I’m a computer nerd… but god damnit I’m a cool computer nerd!

So I’ve decided to create a new website. Something simple and easy using the WordPress blog system as the CMS for posting, commenting, updating and maintaining. Also I’ll be using WP because I’m leaving in 5 weeks and I want to have this done before I’m gone.

I’m basically going to be make a simple website that allows users to post their stories of the craigslist flakes they’ve encountered. I’m looking into the legal aspect of posting users email addresses to see what, if any, laws it may break. I may need to write a PHP function which will make the email un-clickable and not able to be grabbed by SPAM bots picking up email addresses. Something along the lines of:Â tim[at]r3xxstudios.[xxx] This way, the posters aren’t held liable and readers can still get an idea of who and where the Flake is. (continue reading…)

Not your usual headline, especially for a web designers blog. But it’s more to intrigue you and get you to ask yourself just “what the hell am I talking about“. We’ve all heard a similar saying, “[something long and tedious]… is like watching water boil”. That’s how I’ve been feeling the past month or two, and more so now than ever. Since I put my notice in at work 3 weeks ago, time has been slugging on. Work days are long and boring which I will get into a little more later, evenings are slow and relaxing, and the nights are filled with thoughts and dreams of what my future plans are.

But what’s killing me… What’s making the 18 or so hours a day I’m up and working, is that I know in 6 weeks I’m flying out of the Country. I feel like I’m watching water boil every day, and even though I have the heat on high, the damn water just isn’t bubbling yet! (continue reading…)