Jeff Chappell

Image Tags, Keywords and SEO, II

Jeff Chappell — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:14:52 +0000

I'm still amazed at how much traffic SEO in the form of well-chosen image tags can drive to one's web site, even with a low page rank.

Teaching ESL. Again. And Then This Happened

Jeff Chappell — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:23 +0000

Still got the freelance web/writing shingle out -- once a journalist, always, I suppose. But here I am again living abroad teaching ESL.

SEO Plugin Boo-Boo

Jeff Chappell — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:20:51 +0000

A recent version of the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin, 0.4.1, caused some people to have an issue with xml sitemaps. I was one of those peeps. But a little digging fixed it.

Widget Titles, WordPress and Broken Code

Jeff Chappell — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:45:59 +0000

Who would have thought that skipping a widget title in WordPress while inserting Google Adsense Code would break the widget underneath? Certainly not I ...

Image Tags, Keywords and SEO

Jeff Chappell — Wed, 25 May 2011 05:09:31 +0000

Reviewing spam can teach you more than you might think about search engine optimization (SEO) and keywords. And don't forget those image tags; these are important too.

Photoshop, Ubuntu and VirtualBox

Jeff Chappell — Mon, 16 May 2011 04:15:51 +0000

I really like Ubuntu, but I can't do without Photoshop. Rather than use Wine I'm using VirtualBox, which enables one to run Windows 7 -- inside Ubuntu -- and thus Photoshop. Hooray.

Out, Damn’d Quote!

Jeff Chappell — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:41:15 +0000

In which a single, misplaced apostrophe in a PHP file breaks WordPress and results in the dread White Screen of Death. I subsequently murder the King of Scotland.

WordPress and Train Wrecks

Jeff Chappell — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:26:55 +0000

The process of uploading or migrating a WordPress site has gone smoothly for me, more often than not. But uploading this particular site was a train wreck.

Going With Throttle Up

Jeff Chappell — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:47:19 +0000

I've got things -- more-or-less -- squared away here with the relaunch of this site. But there are still some things to do, and it's past my bedtime. So please bear with me. ...

WordPress in Ubuntu

Jeff Chappell — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:54:46 +0000

So, um, where it says "For automatic updates to occur, the folder and all its files and subfolders must be owned by www-data." ... This is REALLY. EFFING. IMPORTANT.