Monthly Archives: April 2008

Search and Replace Wildcard Characters in Dreamweaver

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Trent M

Dreamweaver has a powerful search/replace ability which includes ‘regular expressions’. This allows you to scan and replace particular html without affecting data. Here’s an example of how useful this is: Let’s say you are harvesting content from Wikipedia and putting … Continue reading →

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WordPress: The Ultimate Google Ranking Machine

Posted on April 6, 2008 by Trent M

Google loves WordPress. WordPress content is a nice, tasty meal for those hungry Google spiders. In some cases within 45 minutes of posting, content on my blog was ranked #1 for certain keyword combinations. That’s impressive how quickly Google will … Continue reading →

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Best Places to Dance in Portland, Oregon

Posted on April 5, 2008 by Trent M

Portland, Oregon Looking for a great place to dance? With 10 years experience in social / partner dancing around Portland (including ballroom, salsa, swing), the following is the list of the best places to dance, ranked within each category and … Continue reading →

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How to Win at Internet Checkers

Posted on April 5, 2008 by Trent M

Internet Checkers is a fun game which comes with any standard Windows XP installation. It’s neat how Microsoft configured it to link with anyone in the world looking for a player for the same game. The template message options at … Continue reading →

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Eliminate URL Comment Spam from WordPress

Posted on April 5, 2008 by Trent M

The default installation of WordPress is vulnerable to comment spam. There are a few ways around it: 1. Activate Akismet, a spam catcher – the problem is it can sometimes generate ‘false positives’ 2. Add a captcha – can be … Continue reading →

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