When hunting for a new job, whether it is your first (as is my case) or you are pursuing a career change, it is important to have a certain set of tools to help you. These tools, along with a core skill set are what I call the “Job Hunter’s Survival Kit”. I have broken [...]
Its about that time again. I have had a huge break from writing, but am now ready to come back. It is also about time for my focus to change. In the last year I have grown up a great deal and my interests have changed significantly. This blog will now have a new focus: [...]
Building a WordPress theme is no small task. It takes time, resources and a nearly unlimited amount of patience. I prefer to do my work all at once, but that means I will be sitting at the computer for hour after hour trying to tweak the design. And once you get something you like, you [...]
I have been working tremendously hard for the past few months to shape up this blog. A while back, I wrote a post outlining how I felt that this blog was severely under performing. In fact, being a finance student, I would have recognized this blog as having strong potential but being poorly managed, thereby [...]
I have been working like crazy this summer to boost the traffic to this website. And it has been paying off. To accomplish this, I did a lot of reading at a ton of different websites about ways to get the traffic to flow. So to that end, I decided to share a few of [...]
Hooray for Part 3 of my Back to School Series! Don’t forget to get your fill of Windows apps in Part 1 and Mac apps in Part 2! Anyhow, as a college student, you will need to arm yourself with a vast suite of applications to get yourself through each and every day. You will [...]
You have just installed WordPress for your brand new blog and you are ready to start writing that killer content and make tons of money, right? WRONG! As fantastic as WordPress is right out of the box, it is far from complete. Even for the most basic blog, you really need to install some key [...]
It has been a hell of a long time since the last “Best Design Week”, but the design world does not stop just because I do. In fact, there have been tons of great things going on in the world of design. And in case you have never seen this feature of mine, here is [...]
It’s time to organize your life! Admit it. Your desk is cluttered and you can’t find time to exercise and you don’t even know where to sign a check; OK, maybe that is not all true for you, but each and every one of us need to take some time to organize our lives. Without [...]
A common problem for bloggers is that you do all kinds of work to get readers to just look at your post, only to have them leave right after that. In fact, you could call it the “Stumble” effect. Just like the Stumbleupon plugin, a reader glances over your post, passes on judgment and then [...]
I have had my own fare share of problems trying to increase my traffic. And my Alexa rank was one area that was an especially glaring problem. When I first found out that Alexa even existed, my rank was in the 300,000’s. Now my rank is near 170,000. It is still nothing to brag about, [...]
