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People are not inherently good; there are always selfish motives even for the most benevolent of deeds. So why would you think that free wordpress themes are really free? These theme designers do not knock out several hours of their own time to create free Wordpress themes for the benefit of the blogger community. Creating [...]

I only have one more month left in my internship at Pepperjam, and the summer weather has finally become brutal. It’s well over 90 degrees every day, and as I climb the stairs up to my top-floor studio I begin the steady baking of my scrawny asian body. As I take my shoes off at [...]

Transform The Useless 404 Error Page
A 404 error page tells you that the web server was not able to find the requested information. By default, your Wordpress 404 page should be an empty, plain page that says 404 Error - Not Found at the top. This default page is an obstacle that further confuses the [...]

Buy Your Textbooks For Penn State
The new semester is just a couple of months away and you’ve finished registering for all your courses. All that’s left to do now is buy your Penn State textbooks. Depending on how and where you buy your textbooks, you can save $300 or $500 on book costs. Below I [...]

When I first discovered Feedburner, I made the mistake of creating two different accounts and separating my Feedburner feeds by theme. There really wasn’t a point to checking and maintaining two separate Feedburner accounts, as I would later discover. So here’s how to transfer your Feedburner feeds manually, since there isn’t an option to do [...]

I mentioned in an earlier post that Google accounts for a ridiculously low amount of search traffic in South Korea. In light of this, there’s an article in the New York Times today that summarizes Korea’s search engine story. So, it turns out that Korean netizens are not as ignorant or stubborn-headed as I had [...]

Here’s a quick snippet on how to align your Google Adsense code. I needed to use this to right-align an Adsense Search form.

ADSENSE CODE GOES HERE

Many people try to align Adsense code using the text-align CSS property, but this will not work. You must use the float property to align the div box.

Lee recently started his new blog at www.BloggerFusion.com, and to his surprise, his domain has already been hijacked by a search engine spammer. It started out by Lee’s thinking that he was the shit because his domain was already showing a PageRank of 1. I had to question this because he had just bought the [...]

I wrote an ampersand character in the content of a blog post and it caused the RSS feed to break down. Not only did the XML document for the feed cut off at that particular post, Feedburner also returned an error:
The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the [...]

For the past hour, I have been trying to figure out how to tweak the Wordpress-defined htaccess file for a 301 redirect on a non-www url. We do 301 redirects with our own domain to create a single url for both www.domain.com and domain.com, by redirecting the latter to the former. Here’s a clearer explanation [...]