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Website Maintenance 101: Backup. Backup. Backup. Did I mention, Backup?

September 2, 2010

Just a quick blurb about how important backing up your website data is for recovering last well known states. Not just from a disaster standpoint of losing data in the event of an “outage” but also before upgrades or maintenance. I have been working to get a bbPress installation integrated into my blog for support [...]

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What does “Web Professional” mean to you?

August 31, 2010

I have started to draft a few articles and ideas on becoming a Web Professional. I don’t want to ramble on or express my ideas quite yet. I would however, love to get some feedback on what the phrase Web Professional means to you. I’ve put together a 1 question survey (2 question if you [...]

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I’m near celebrity status and apparently a Swedish trading post?

August 27, 2010

Consider this a “prequel post” to my endeavor of relaunching my blog. This little snippet of information is some insight into good Search Engine Optimization practices, the importance of maintaining your website, and sharing a similar name with a celebrity. While reconfiguring my Google Webmaster account I discovered that the keyword ”matthew m” ranks 3rd in Google search results. Interested to see what [...]

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Turning the switch “on” – Migrating from Drupal to WordPress

June 15, 2010

I’ve recently decided to get back into updating and advancing my blog. For the last few years, my site has run on Drupal. I have been (was) really active on the local community boards and really pushing the use of Drupal with many projects. Drupal is a great platform for building robust online applications with [...]

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