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Switch to HostGator Proves They’re Awesome

by Patrick Daly on December 23, 2008

in General

Ten days ago I announced my switch from MediaTemple to HostGator hosting because things were very slow.
So check this out. Google Webmaster Tools fills you in on some metrics related to Google’s crawling of your site. Here’s what I found:
Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)
Notice that huge drop off towards the end. That means [...]

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WordPress Meetup Summary

by Patrick Daly on September 29, 2008

in WordPress

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The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress Meetup!
This weekend I went to my first WordPress Meetup which was held in PD Johnson’s in Dallas. I wasn’t too sure of what to expect; the summary of the group made it seem like it would be pretty informal. It was. Everyone trickled in, about ten [...]

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What Is WordPress?

by Patrick Daly on September 4, 2008

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WordPress, by definition, is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. But really, it’s so much more than that.
I use WordPress for this site and pretty much all sites I develop. Sure it can run the best, most flexible blogs, but it’s because of that flexibility that I choose [...]

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It’s About That Time

by Patrick Daly on August 25, 2008

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My apologies first. I haven’t kept up with my blog very well this year. Of course, moving, planning a wedding, and being a newly wed are factors that. All of which are null and void now (except the newly wed part). Needless to say I have more time now and will be posting more regularly.
The [...]

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Launched: Simple Elegance

by Patrick Daly on June 30, 2008

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This week I launched a new client site: Simple Elegance. Simple Elegance is a wedding decoration company in Denton, TX that serves the whole DFW area. I’m getting married (in less than a month!) and so my bride met with Simple Elegance and found out that they needed a website. Needless to say, work began [...]

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