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Lost on the Web 2.0

will — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:14:24 +0000

What is Web 2.0? In reading this article, they mention MySpace as a Web 2.0 site, but if you search around Digg most “Web 2.0″ sites are AJAX b a s e d monsters. So what is “Web 2.0″ exactly? Is it social networking, XHTML, AJAX, or just a fancy name? Or my personal opinion, a way to make people click on the link called “My 2.0 Site!”

Vi Survival Guide

will — Thu, 25 May 2006 07:34:58 +0000

I hate Vi. I have never been able to understand it. If you aren’t a geek you are probably wondering right now what Vi is. Vi is a console text editor for Unix. When I first got my web server about four years ago I tried Vi and never understood it, many friends tried to teach me with no luck. I instead used Pico, and then graduated to Nano. Well after spending countless times Googling trying to find a decent guide for Vi I found one. This thing is awesome; it tells you everything you could ever need to know about it. Check it out!

Power User Application Guide

will — Wed, 17 May 2006 21:03:09 +0000

Well I’ve been busy the past few days. I created a Power User Application Guide, it basically highlights most applications I find useful. If you have a favorite application that you don’t see on the list drop me a comment and let me know.

I’ve also updated the About page, Links, and the Firefox Guide.

Firefox Myths

will — Wed, 10 May 2006 04:51:02 +0000

Okay…So the other day I got a comment saying I should check out this site. I always read every comment I get, if there is a question I’ll answer it, or a website I’ll check it out. I feel if someone spend the time to write a comment I can spend the time to at least pay attention to it. Speaking of that thanks everyone for the feedback on my Firefox Guide. Anyway back to this “site” thingy. This site is all about Firefox Myths. Well I think this site is crap. Full of outdated junk and is a plot to make Firefox look bad. Firefox is not the 100% fix all…But I feel it’s a hell of a lot better than Internet Exploder. You be the judge.

Web Developer’s Handbook

will — Tue, 09 May 2006 05:41:28 +0000

http://www.alvit.de/handbook/

That site is holy. Awesome stuff there for web designers. Even stuff that would help people with MySpace. Gasp!! CSS all the way!

Firefox 1.7

will — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:18:37 +0000

Well the time has come once again for me to announce more changes to the Firefox Guide.

Added: MR Tech Local Install, this extension kicks because it allows you to manage extensions and themes locally. I also updated the Hacks and Keyboard Shortcuts.

I am going to add more hacks and some general information later on tonight. Enjoy.

Also Mozilla released Firefox 1.5.0.3 today.

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will — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:04:50 +0000

Well Sunday morning at about 11 we got Slashdotted. After taking the server to a crawl most of the day the server finally had enough. I rebooted the server this morning and later on this afternoon traffic subsided to a level the server could keep up with. I want to thank everyone for their great comments on my Firefox Guide. And I hope everyone had a great weekend!

WordPress Rocks Officially

will — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:20:17 +0000

The past couple of days because it was a four day weekend from school, normal weekend from work, but I had some extra time to continue working on the never ending project. This site. After working on several pages and doing the necessary research behind them I realized how powerful WordPress really is. I’ve done tons of stuff with this software that I didn’t know I could do before…but in working on the links page, and the Firefox Guide I discovered I could run almost 90% of the page through the links manager in WordPress. Now how uber cool is that! I did quite a bit of reading on tags for the links manager and other plug-ins…It’s quite amazing what a user can do with that system. I have to say that I’m impressed. Anymore after using tons of web based software over the years it takes a lot to get me all jazzed…well it happened again. This week I should be finishing the links area, organize the sidebar, add some awesome RSS feeds to the site, and finally a cool new thingy I am working on!

A New World

will — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:50:56 +0000

I’ve been a geek for as long as I can remember. I did my first website when I was in 8th grade. Holy crap that was long ago. I remember when just html was cool. That summer I perfected my skills and was trying all kinds of different stuff. Then a guy I met in high school my frosh year, Caleb, showed me how to do one little thing in flash that rocketed me on my journey. Well my jr year I basically got bored with websites and just slacked off. Well…over the past year, sense I started this site (yes that was back when I was using Movable Type) I started getting back into website design. And recently I’ve gotten swamped with customer jobs. I’ve been learning and catching up on all this new technology. CSS oh my has it grown, and all the cool stuff you can do with flash these days. I should post my old flash work sometime, someday. I am not a very creative person when it comes to web design, therefore the past few weeks I’ve been surfing and reading and get some ideas. Tonight while doing my nightly digg I came across a great site. If you are remotely interested in website design and development check this site out. It’s totally worth it and has anything you could possibly need.

http://www.alvit.de/handbook/

MySpace

will — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:05:55 +0000

I am going to start this off by saying I really don’t like MySpace. But I’m a geek, so I have it, and I’ll leave it at that. I know someone is going to ask me this, so here is my reasoning behind it. This is also similar to my reasoning for just not using Live Journal. I have my own server, I design websites, and finally I a geek as I stated above. So why not do it myself, I’m in full control, and I can do more. So that might help…anyway on to the real point of this post…

While browsing my new favorite site (The rest of my favorite sites will soon be up in my links section that I am working on. Might I also mention I feel like its the 90′s again because I have actually been surfing the net. What’s wrong with me?) digg.com I came across this article. It is about the people the own/run MySpace. Very very interesting if you ask me. Please post your comments on this I am curious what y’all think.

http://www.applexnet.com/trent/blog//index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50

I’m tired, so I’m out like the 70′s…

silviasource.com

will — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:26:17 +0000

Yes that’s a new website im starting. The point of it is a community for the Nissan 240sx Owners. Also known as the 180sx and the Silvia. Hense the name: Silvia Source

Check it!

http://silviasource.com

Please Note: The site is still in the VERY early stages…but changes are being made all the time.

Many More Updates

will — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:29:59 +0000

This year is going to be a great one! I can already tell, one bad thing I can foresee is going to be a massive lack of time. I suppose that is to be expected. Now to news and updates in my life. If anyone hasn’t noticed I’ve been very very very………..very busy. But there are many reasons for it!

Starting off this site (willlangford.com) is undergoing massive changes. I have already skinned the site and made it look basically how I want it to look. I have content pages I am working on over the next few weeks, sooner hopefully though. I have migrated the gallery over to Gallery 2. Check it out here: http://willlangford.com/gallery2. As soon as I finish the content pages I will post links to them. First one being my personal Firefox guide.

I have added another totally different area to the site. Similar to my Northwest Toy Run Gallery (http://nwtoyrun.willlangford.com). The new site is digg.willlangford.com. The reasoning behind this site is below, this is what I posted on the site itself.

So I’m starting off the New Year with many additions to may main site (http://willlangford.com). This blog is just another part of the site. I find all kinds of interesting and random amounts of info on the web. I would love to post them all on my main site, but then I would be cluttering that site all to hell and back. So with the New Year I decided to start a sub blog that I would update with just random bits of news, links, and any other bit of randomness I can find. Please enjoy yourself and feel free to comment!, and also please check the will langford dot com homepage for many updates to come.

Hopefully that kind of explains itself.

Now to my web development life, I have several ongoing projects right now that are taking a ton of my time. Not to mention my day job. Once I start getting these sites checked off the list I’ll post links to them for reader review.

Well it’s getting late and I need to finish some other work, so I will finish this little adventure in a little while.

Instant CSS

will — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:51:46 +0000

This is what I would call “Freaking Tight,”

http://typetester.maratz.com/ – Generates CSS on the fly!

Many Updates

will — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:10:01 +0000

I’m back from the dead. School is over, but work is not. This life, and it goes on…but I finally have time to update the blog and the site. I am bringing it back. I have redesigned the site and added many new items. Over the next few days or weeks there will be many more changes to come. Enjoy.

Revamp!

will — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:37:06 +0000

Coming to a screen near you!!

Web Dev – Heaven or Hell

will — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:33:01 +0000

Thank sambo for this link.

http://ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/internet/design.html

That article has some great information that is well worth your time if you have or are considering doing any amount of website development. I agree with many points in that article and there are some awesome links at the end.

Oscommerce

will — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:28:44 +0000

There has quite a bit of shit going on between the Oscommerce community members and the developers. I use OSC on my online store (treatyourpet.com) and have been around that community for a little over two years. Recently people that have been exposing little black holes or problems with the project have been getting banned on the forum and all related posts have been removed or edited so that those points are no longer there. This happened to me yesterday, I haven’t been banned (yet) but my posts were edited and many people that replayed posts’ were removed.

To see what edits were done please check out this page I have created:
http://osc.willlangford.com/

Please, PLEASE share this with your friends!

Words of Wisdom

will — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:21:39 +0000

In a recent MSN convo betwen sambo, we were talking about how search engine spiders have been just eating our sites that past few days. I managed to open my mouth once again…

“i hope we all get raped for the good of the cause”

- Will(iam) Langford aka Me.

Sams comment…

The scary thing is I agree with him. Must… further… “cause.”

To see sambo’s post on his block; check it.

SEO and Adwords

will — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:52:46 +0000

I’ve done quite a bit of web stuff in the past few years, but today it is apparent everything is changing and its changing very fast. Search Engine Submission and submitting sites to directories takes a ton of work. Its quite amazing how much work it actually takes.

Adwords has been another learning curve. For those of you who don’t know adwords is Googles’ advertising thingy they use on their site. For my online store (treatyourpet.com) I’ve reading about Google Adwords almost every night. To do keywords and such it’s just taking a ton of time.

I need more hours in the day! And I also need a few less projects!

In other news Gallery RC2 is out!

Read the Memo

will — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:46:24 +0000

It’s New, and it’s here! My forum site is now open and running!!

Check it out at: readthememo.com.