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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

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"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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JMBlog Archive for March, 2004

table soup

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

Am working on SEO (search engine optimization) of this site: http://www.joanneforman.com, to take it out of “table soup” (i.e., lots of nested tables) and put it into CSS. Have put the new sample page up here: New css formatted page. Is it worth it? I think so. The code went from 364 lines of HTML code to less than a hundred lines of code. That’s got to do something for keyword density! And readability by the search engines. Next step is to optimize the site for the search engines and then …

A reader scolded me today

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

Been a long time – a reader scolded me today for not posting more often, so I’m going to give it a go. Had some major computer problems in January that put me way behind. Basically I bought a new computer from pieces and had it assembled – it then proceeded to crash for the next month until we discovered the memory had been placed into the wrong slots and we had to slow down the bus speed a hair. It’s a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 – really nice and fast now that it is working properly.

And Google …

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