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How much time can you spare per day to build and maintain your web?

And if you have several tasks going on at the same time, which is the more important?
With just that “much time” available, and when you rebuilding a web and maintaining others at the same time, which is the more urgent?

Halting Make Your Own Web Site

I usually work on several pages at the same time on my laptop, and upload them to the server together when they are ready.
There are about 11 pages written and just as I was into the editing and rewriting, something else popped up.
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Staying Focused

This Make Your Own Website Project is encountering some challenges.

The goal of writing a page a day is delayed by a few daily activities.

Whatever that’s getting in the way has to go…

Staying focus is completing the daily list and getting rid of those which obstructed me from completing the task.

What’s the problem?

One of those is reading and replying emails.

If it has got nothing to do with web building, I’ve got to clear it.

I could complete a page if I could stopped replying to 2 emails.

Do and Done

I subscribed to tens of hundreds of newsletters and I am getting an average of 80 emails per day. It’s best to stop reading but there are a few concerning web building.

Unsubscribing the rest may be the solution but the process is a time waster.

Also not all unsubscribing are safe. Some may ended up with more spams instead.

Report Spam

I signed in to my Gmail and marked all mails as spams and unchecked those that are related to web building.

Time spent on 5 pages was 40 minutes.
Done

Club Matters

One of the daily chores was taking care of club matters – a non-profit organization.

I can’t stopped reading the mails. I am actually addicted.

One of the solutions may be to unsubscribe temporary. But writing in to request and later on a follow up explanation to the administrator of the Yahoo Group will too be a bigger time waster!

The fastest solution – delete the account.
And so the Yahoo email account was deleted within 2 minutes.
Deleting the account too removed me from the Instant Messaging.

A painful cut and 3 days later, I’m still feeling the pull.

Will they missed me?
“Are You That Great?”

The other daily chores

There’s another daily activity that I had been doing for years. It only takes a few minutes a day. And that is monitoring all the emails of the club and redirecting them to the right officer.

Not a chore if I enjoyed doing it. But if sticking to whatever that gets in the way of Project Make Your Own Website has to go, then this has to go too.

I spent another hour checking the password of all the accounts and sending an email to my club mentors to transfer the duty.

Done.

Time spent 3 hours today, but that should cut off an hour of my daily time wasters.

Staying focused – Completing it whatever it takes and removing those that get in the way!

What should I do tomorrow with that extra hour?

Let me get a bottle of Southern Comfort tonight….

Should it go with Coke or 7up?

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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

New Kid On The Blog

This is the fourth posting of this blog.

2 of the 3 previous posts appeared under the domain search but not under the title search in Google, Yahoo and Bing.

In fact they appeared in Google an hour after publishing the post.

If you are using the regular WordPress, it should even be faster.
I had postings on standard WordPress that were captured by Google within 15 minutes.

I am using WPMU and it’s much slower. It usually takes up to an hour.
I am not complaining on that.

All pages under the web have yet to show up.

Linking Strategy

The lesson here – If it’s a new website or a website on a new domain, it may take some time to be crawled.

Since the search engines come to the blog first though I created the web earlier, the strategy is to link the web from the blog.
This may speed up the process.
Also need to create a RSS file for the website.

While writing this, I suddenly remembered I have an unattended blog over at WordPress.com.

New website, new blog, new postings – with everything being equal – the weight should be on a more popular domain – WordPress.com.

Time to go over and do some postings at starising.wordpress.com

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Friday, January 15th, 2010

Validating Google’s Adsense For Search

Finally completed the xhtml validation codes for the first six pages.

If pages were written in a rush, it is easy to forget to close all the tags.

One code, however, remains in error.

That was a code given by Google’s Adsense for search:

The Markup Validation Service Report

Validation Output: 1 Error

1. Error Line 20, Column 23: document type does not allow element “style” here

<style type="text/css">

The element named above was found in a context where it is not allowed. This could mean that you have incorrectly nested elements — such as a “style” element in the “body” section instead of inside “head” — or two elements that overlap (which is not allowed).

One common cause for this error is the use of XHTML syntax in HTML documents. Due to HTML’s rules of implicitly closed elements, this error can create cascading effects. For instance, using XHTML’s “self-closing” tags for “meta” and “link” in the “head” section of a HTML document may cause the parser to infer the end of the “head” section and the beginning of the “body” section (where “link” and “meta” are not allowed; hence the reported error).

Good to hack it?

One way is get around it is perhaps to move this line of code inside the head element.

<style type="text/css">
@import url(http://www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css);
</style>

But then, that would be breaking the Google’s TOS.
Better not touch it since everything is working in order.

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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Project Make Your Own Website

Finally I am able to launch Project Make Your Own Website.

For years I had been building websites on subdomains of this web. They were:

  • Test sites that were later moved to their own domains.
  • Review sites for PPC campaigns
  • Sites for Google Adsense.
  • And test sites for some of my web building experiments.

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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

SEO For WordPress