Tonight I modified the way my site is generating meta data. Meta data’s purpose, is to show search engines how to index my articles in their database. I won’t go into the details, but since this change is transparent to most of my visitors and the subject of meta data for Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, can be complex and detailed. So instead, I will give you a quick explanation of what I did.
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Tonight I added a background image to all the pages. The image is a montage of some of my interests. The plan is to have a unique background image for each category to help you recognize where you are at inside the site. But for now I’m just going to use the same image for all pages.
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Okay, I’m not exactly sure why I like this song so much. Maybe it’s because I’m a guy or maybe the catchy hook got me. Either way, with much shame, I’ve decided to post this video. The first time I heard this song was while listening to an alternative rock station on my cell phone, KWOD 106, while I was building the latest redesign of my site. I would say to enjoy the video, but you probably won’t
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To help you with navigating this website I have added “Breadcrumbs”. Breadscrumbs are the text links above in the red bar that show you the path to your current location in the website. As you go deeper into the the site or into a category, the links give you an easy way to back out and find your way home.
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I turned on trackbacks which will allow me to make a reference inside of an article to another website’s article and it will notify that site admin that he’s been referenced on my site. This is, in turn, automatically generates a comment on their article with a link back to my website to help generate traffic and give credit to other authors when I reference their work.
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I am new to fairly new to WordPress and had some questions on how to use the trackbacks. I searched for a few hours and read a few tutorials, but it still wasn’t making any sense. Articles would describe how to turn them on, but not much into the details of how to actually use Trackbacks and what they do.
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I just started adding articles to the website and in less than an hour I am finding many things I want to change to make the site more user friendly and easier to navigate. Below is an on-going list of things I want to add/change/fix in no particular order. I will try to get to them as I go along on my on-going effort to keep things on this site fresh.
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These are some cool pics of beautiful animals in nature.

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This is some Digital Art I had in my My Pictures folder on my laptop. Enjoy.

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This was taken from a satellite millions of miles away. It took a picture every 15 minutes while the moon was transitioning in front of our planet. It’s a pretty amazing view.
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