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Welcome to the newest feature/distraction here at Systems United, the blog page. I've been blogging off and on (you know how it goes) at my personal site, zombieflambe.com. Sadly, at present, the site really has nothing to do with zombies, dessert, nor anything resembling acceptable conversational for a first date. However, word on the street is that ActionScript 3 tutorials and terribly drawn comics are going to make a strong showing this year and may even cause some fortunate code monkeys to be labeled as "cool" for knowing more about hot new web 2.0 APIs than if Zach ever married Kelly. ...What? Saved by the Bell isn't cool anymore? It went off the air in 93??? Yikes... but thanks for the date, wikipedia. How much do we take SEO for granted? I'm sure plenty of folks reading remember the days of CompuServe v. America Online 1.0, having your ears assualted via the now-nostalgic, shrill screeeching of your 9600 baud modem, and spending hours and days either waiting for web pages & files to download or spending that same time just trying to find a relevant result to your search query! Technology has thankfully sped up and our brains have followed suit. Sure, doctors will be happy to tell you you have "adult A.D.D" but really what the good doctor is saying is, "Wow, I admire your brains ability to multitask so quickly and efficiently that your conscious mind can't...." I dont remember the rest, I zoned out thinking about database optimization and object oriented theory. The point of this first blog, amidst the unneccesary pop-culture commentary, is to remember to take a step back, unpeel your eyes from the monitor for a few, and remember in solemn silence that there once existed a time when typing "zach morris" into a search engine would return more links to geocities sites of completely random people who happened to be named zach, or morris(?) than it would for anything to do with your adolescent TV-Crush Zach. (Note: this is not My personal experience... ...mine happened to be DJ from Full House.. but searching for girls names to research a school assignment I was doing on Ms. Candace Cameron got me in trouble... moving on...) I find that my web development interests revolve and rotate like marketing buzz words, hot one minute, totally not the next minute. Over the past several years, as SEO began coming into it's own as an actual legitimate and significant impact maker on the success of a website, I've researched, just as many of you have, on different techniques, tips, and rules on "proper Search Engine Optimization." Over the past month or two maybe I've been especially aware of it due to personal projects or perhaps its due to the world economy burning and folks flocking to the net as a way to ePanhandle *points to the Feed a Developer Fund PayPal button* but it seems that not a day goes by where I dont receive an email from Sitepoint, O'Reilly, and other sites with email newsletters where SEO isn't mentioned at least once. So, thus begins a short blog series on SEO, web development, PHP, Joomla and other related topics. For me, it is a way to regurgitate all of the notes and info I've collected to help me remember it better... and hopefully for some it will offer some tips and exposure to SEO topics that maybe you haven't come across or didn't know existed. I encourage anyone reading as these posts take shape to comment here or in the forums and share your ideas and tips as well. We're all on the same team... and it'd be great to have some clever ideas from the experienced as well as some questions for those less experienced. Hopefully the remainder of the series will be less of me rambling and more of an actual helpful, factual, and focused nature! I'm also using this as an excuse to play with/review some new Joomla Extensions. This component happens to be IDoBlog from Sunshine Studio and so far, it's everything you'd expect from a typical Joomla component with "blog" in the component name. We'll see how it works out soon enough. Take care all,
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