Archive for Michael Lankton
Michael was a bass player in a hardcore punk band in the 80's and spent the 90's building and riding custom Harleys. As strange a combination as it may seem, Mike also has some coder and sysadmin in his history as well. At 42 Mike's now a husband and dad, and works as a Corrections Officer in a maximum security lockdown unit by day, and is admin at AV Enthusiast and contributor to Connected Internet when time allows. Mike is also passionate about food and travel.
5 Professional-looking Free Wordpress Themes
Great content can lose momentum if it’s wrapped in a brown paper bag. Your site design impacts content layout, advertising space and most importantly, it influences how your readers perceive what you have to offer.
There are no shortage of bad looking Wordpress themes. Many times I will pass by a site without really scratching the [...]
Are You Directing Traffic Or Just Watching It Go By?
Your web site’s home page is going to see more hits than any other section of your site. Even people surfing in from Google will make your homepage their second stop if they are going to stick around for multiple page views. If your home page is all you are concerned about people seeing, then [...]
7Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 6 comments | Continued
The Shot That Ended The Format War
I wrote a three part series on the Format War when I first started writing for Connected Internet, describing what the two formats were about, and what I thought were hits and misses by both sides. My ending verdict was for HD DVD, and I still feel that it has more to offer than the [...]
5Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 11 comments | Continued
Feedback: New Year’s Resolutions For Driving Your Blog’s Growth
Well, another year is in the bag. 2007 was a good year for me and my family, and I hope you all prospered in 2007 as well. Now that 2008 is upon us, I’m sure that we’re all looking ahead, thinking about things we’d like to improve about ourselves, our careers and our web sites.
For [...]
The NeXT Big Thing
If you’re reading this, chances are that you are on a workstation that is running some flavor of the Windows operating system. Some of you may be running Linux or, like the author, might be a Mac user, but it’s still a Windows world as far as most homes and businesses go. Windows has come [...]
27Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 14 comments | Continued
Feedback: How Much Traffic Before Dedicated Hosting Becomes Necessary?
Almost all of us started with a cheap, shared web host. The shared hosts offer a fantastic service for little money. They offer the novice webmaster a managed environment with niceties like web-based administrative interfaces (cPanel, Plesk, etc) for managing their site(s) and services, script based installation of site software via Fantastico, and ftp and [...]
27Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 22 comments | Continued
Design And Monetization
Good design draws a reader in instead of repelling them. Good design makes your web site appear more credible. Design is secondary to content, but it’s an important cornerstone of your web site’s foundation. Since design is subjective, mastering the design that works for your web site is a task you will never really consider [...]
20Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 16 comments | Continued
From Nothing At All To PR4 In Two Months
In November the much-maligned latest Google Pagerank was released, taken from an October snapshot. My site was granted a PR4, after only 2 months in existence.
I can’t give you a guaranteed way to start a site and attain a decent pagerank in only two months. I can tell you the things that I did and [...]
Fixing Transparent Images In Internet Explorer
As a website proprietor I want everyone to come to my site. First of all the traffic validates my labor, and second I hope to make some income. A lot of time is spent on design. We want people to find our websites intuitive to navigate and easy on the eye. Once we are satisfied [...]
13Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 20 comments | Continued
Some Tips For Setting Up Your Sitemap
XML sitemaps are used to help search engine crawlers do a better job of finding and prioritizing all of your content. It doesn’t guarantee that your pages will be indexed, but it does assist the crawlers in determining what content you don’t want indexed, and what content you would like to see a higher priority [...]
11Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 7 comments | ContinuedSubscribe Now!
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