Here it is folks. What you are about to read is what thousands of people pay thousands and thousands of dollars a month for:

- Don’t try.

Okay, so I’m only partially serious. I mean, I am serious, but I’m not at the same time.
Out of all the sites I’ve worked on, the ones that rank the best seem to be the ones I try the least on. Okay, so that’s only partially true. The only thing I usually try to do is keep the URLs void of lots of ? and &’s.

Are there people out there that try hard, and do really well because of their efforts? Yes, and if we built similiar sites, they’d get higer rankings in search engines. I’m just sayin’ that if you’re not going to try really hard, you might as well not try at all. Maybe.
I can’t count how many times I’ve read “content is king”, “content is what matters most”, “content content content”. Why is this an issue? Does anyone really read this stuff and think “wow! they’re right!” I mean, hello!! Of course it is!

Ok, I’m done with this short, tounge in cheek rant.

I’ve had these two books for a week or so now, but haven’t had time to start reading. I’m getting anxious!

Programming Ruby
Agile Web Development with Rails

I promise that my software contains no spyware, malware, adware, etc. It’s clean!

The reason I was accused: apparently Kill Docs was causing this users’s computers to not shut down. Windows XP would just sit there until he manually killed the Kill Docs process. I’ve never seen that before, anyone else had this problem?

Today, FedEx brought me something significantly more exciting. No, not a wife.

What could it be?

Whoo hoo!

Take off the outer sleeve and you get another box

Opened up

Three CDs (the third you can barely see sticking up out of the sleeve it’s in).

And for posterity sake:

Yes, that’s really Delphi 2.0!

I’m excited to install this. I am, however, making myself wait until I get some things done before I do that. I wasted enough time already taking pictures, resizing them, and putting them on here.

I love WordPress!

Anyway, the website will be changing. The main page will be more of a portal than a blog. We just got it up and online to replace the out-of-date site about the 2005 Utah Lindy Exchange.

Feedback appreciated.

As a side note, I really need a new chair. I’ve been slouching way too much the last few days. Maybe that’s also because my back is a bit sore from dancing. Hmmmm…

Can I be part of the development team?
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How can I put the “bomp” in the “bomp-she-bomp-bomp”?
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Upon reading that last one I laughed out loud. Needless to say I wasn’t expecting it. I love it when people do things like that.

I really like how the site turned out. Please let me know what you think. If you have any comments on the CSS/XHTML I’m interested in hearing them. I don’t have access to a Mac so I don’t know what it looks like in Safari. Now… the site does use tables for it’s layout (I know! I know!). I wanted to make it easy for someone else less experienced (not that I’m the best) to change in the future without ripping their eyes out. So since it’s in tables I really really doubt any good browsers will have problems with the CSS. The only browser work around was for IE (surprise!), using “html > body”.

For the shopping cart and e-commerce, I decided to use ICCart, by Home on the Web. I know them very well and really like the ICCart backend system. It rocks. If you’re running a drop ship business there is no better solution.

I created the site with Dreamweaver MX , TopStyle Lite, and EditPlus.

All of this is only a partial shameless plug since I don’t own any of the sites or services I’ve mentioned (especially not the last three). So give me some slack, okay? ;)

www.backyarddiscounts.com

Way to go MSN.