Akensai Web Development

Running a successful website

Posted: July 3rd, 2010

You know as a user of a low profile website, such as this, you could be anywhere at anytime within the server and it's guaranteed that someone is watching what you do. Not like a stalker, more like a creationist overseeing what he or she has created, maintaining balance by being the law, and creating to please on accountability of the user-base. Dazik during any moment of the day could have anywhere from 20 to 800 people browsing, how do we do it? Everything in life can be simplified into the dream of 1 person, an "idea's man" so to think, Google is one of those and so is Microsoft.

The most important thing about being a web-developer of any sort is the ability to care about your users, most websites really don't care who you are or what you want, just the money you bring them, a good web admin will take the time to read every email and reply to every user that sends one. The first idea to a leading website is to know your user base, know the age and agenda of the general area of its users by watching what they use on your site, and what they like. You take this knowledge from watching to add to the sites content, if somebody really likes movies then you give them a search function to find more, they like it so much they tell their friends and net you even more users, this process repeats over and over and will end with a large user base.

The "carry yourself" rule, one of the biggest roles of every web admin is to interact with their users, if your running a forum you need to be active in it otherwise people will have no idea who you are and just see the site as a little void of the internet, so get in those discussions and talk with people, let them know about some aspects of your life, maybe even your real name, I've gotten feedback on many of my creations about how much of a team player I am from simply replying to people, helping them with their own problems and being an ear to talk to. A good example of an interactive social network where you can speak to owners and employee's is FunAdvice, the owner himself will answer your question if you ask him and he's running a 200,000 user website! So keep yourself in the loop with what your users are talking about, and be a part of the discussion.

At this point your probably wondering where you could possibly get the first users of your site from, well that's easy, tell your friends! Advertising really is not all that necessary as long as you have the content people are looking for, something addictive or something of major use, Dazik fits into the usage category by offering its members something you generally cannot find anywhere else, that alone is all the advertising Dazik needs to live on. To get started find other websites with some sort of tie to your own, a common factor. If your website is all about a video game, or a gaming console, then you want to find gamers to tell about how awesome your site is, tell them what they can do on your site that they probably cant anywhere else to drag them in, get them addicted and they will have friends coming in no time.

Now, on top of all that you also need to be prepared for Search Engine Optimization, SEO for short. The one thing you need to make sure of is that each page has its own meta such as description and keywords, even title. That way when search engines like Google or Yahoo come crawling your site everything will be organized and ready for them to index, Google is your friend use it to your advantage!

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Before you contact me

Posted: June 3rd, 2010

I'm very pleased with the few job offers I've received in the last couple of weeks, theres just one thing I want to point out before you try contacting me.

Yes I am very attuned on systems administration and network monitoring, I do not have any certs at the moment, and I am not willing to move across the country for $48,000/year, I really do appreciate the offers however and for your information I am located in Tampa, Florida. If you are around this area and need any web design/coding or are even offering a network/systems position, feel free to contact me, otherwise, I must ask that you DO NOT contact me unless it is for web design, if your position or the job you are wanting me to do would require me to move out of Florida, I will not be willing to take said positions. I feel like a horrible person for this, and I would be more than willing to accept any job like explained above, only if it were near me, again sorry for any problems or misunderstandings.

On to more "Fun" things!

Did anyone else ever notice this, and before you ask, its definitely not shopped, you can YouTube the episodes in these pictures and see the newspaper.

20 Years of News

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Lorem Ipsum – About

Posted: May 22nd, 2010

Well the site is basically finished, as I said before, this WILL be my blog (when and if i ever feel like wanting a blog), as well as my portfolio of work.
I've asked a few people to take a look and tell me if it looks okay, and everyone of them has told me that "it needs to be in english." or some variation of that simple statement. So, I decided to use this here post to explain what Lorem Ipsum is.

Lorem Ipsum is a placeholder, filler if you will. Web Designers and coders use it all the time to test what their creations will look like with content, thats all it is, no it doesnt mean anything, its mainly gibberish derived from Latin.

What is it?

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

As I said before, no it does not mean anything, only a few words of it are real and they generally have no meaning. I just wanted to get that in the clear, it sort of bothers me that nobody has any idea what Lorem Ipsum is, its been the standard for FIVE CENTURIES!

Where does it come from?

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

You can read all about it at Lipsum.com, thats where these quotes came from.

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