Miscellaneous

TechShop Tool Heaven Opens in San Francisco

August 24, 2011

Look what $100 a month can buy you membership to in San Franscisco - Techshop Tool Heaven. I’m definitely jealous. Of course, most of my pieces are too big to take there and then take home. TechShop Tool Heaven has everything a maker could ever need, including CNC machines and 3D rendering software. Adam...
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Main website redone with php coding – JohnSearles.com

By johnsearles

August 8, 2011

Main website redone with php coding – JohnSearles.com

Finally got the main website up, recoded with php. There’s a better picture of me, looking dour and brooding but more artistic. Some Social buttons up on the top with an easy way to add the rest soon. Added a Feedburner link for subscribers. Changed the black – it was seeming too harsh –...
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First PHP Website is Up

By johnsearles

August 1, 2011

Over the weekend I changed my wife’s site from an HTML site to a PHP site – www.jillunderhill.com. Why would a metal artist care about this? Well, having an easily update-able, good-looking and functioning website with RSS , email subscription functionality, Facebook ‘Like’ and Social Media ‘Share’ capabilities is critical to your marketing strategy....
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Robots.txt – how to avoid spamming Google and Bing

By johnsearles

July 30, 2011

Robots.txt – how to avoid spamming Google and Bing

Do you use the Google XML Sitemap Plugin? How about the XML Sitemap Generator tool? Both Google Webmaster Tools and Bing WebMaster Tools ask you to submit an XML sitemap to help them index your site. Doing so is one of the signs that you are a professional webmaster, and they will, in turn,...
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Status 7-20-2011

By johnsearles

July 21, 2011

Busy day, cleaned up the slag from last night’s plasma cutting – used a pneumatic needle scaler – very loud, needed both ear plugs and ear muffs, but this works much much better than a grinding wheel. The slag just flies off. Didn’t make any progress on cleaning up the shaped 1/4″ aluminum pieces,...
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Technorati Claimsite

By johnsearles

July 18, 2011

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Favicon-How-Tos

By JohnSearles

July 16, 2011

Updated 1:10 pm – I just added a favicon to my blog and website. There it is to the left. With a little practice, one could do a favicon in less than 5 minutes. I was prompted to do so by DailyBlogTips – this site has many great tips for the beginning user of...
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