Hello all! It’s been quite a while since I last blogged. I have been quite busy in the interim, but not with what I really wanted to work on. I find myself working more on my site’s infrastructure than on it’s content. Not the best of ideas, considering that content is king. However…

You probably didn’t notice, but I have totally rebuilt TitaniumKnights.net from the ground up, including this here blog. Well, if you were paying attention, you would have noticed the blog changes – I coded the blog template to look identical to that of the main site. Furthermore, you would only have noticed any changes to the main site if you looked at the source code. I wanted to make the code cleaner, faster, and source ordered while keeping the site visually the same.

The site rebuild took about a month or so since my XHTML and CSS knowledge was very limited. But it was a great learning experience. I can now build websites from scratch using just a text editor and a graphics program. (And the occasional code reference off the net…)

The source ordering, to my surprise, really made a huge difference. Before the site rebuild, I received very little traffic via search engines – about 4%. Now, according to Google Analytics, it’s about 20%. With the same content. Cool. I only wish that I had done it sooner…

So, now I have an average of about 200 visits per month. Of course, I intend to have much more than that! So, I’m learning about web marketing. I have pretty much no backlinks yet, but that’s okay. I have a proven track record of learning new things and achieving measured results using my newly learned skills. I also need to get back to my content creation goals. But I have so many of them… maybe that’s the problem…

Er…

Anyway, I also set up an online community forum on my other site at SteveWexlerIT.com/Forums. It is a place for discussing technology, audio/video, creative ventures, entertainment, and console/pc gaming. And since I’m plugging other sites here, check out CookiesNCupcakes.com. It’s run by my wife, and she is an excellent baker! I’ve put on quite a few pounds eating her desserts, why not join me?

Take care all!

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I recently finished reading the latest book from Christopher Paolini, Brisingr. I’ve been anxiously awaiting this book since I finished the first two books of the Inheritance Cycle, Eragon and Eldest. It was an absolutely amazing read! I was so drawn in, that I just couldn’t put the book down.

The characters are multidimensional and seem to jump off the pages. I wanted to know what they were going to do next, and I cared about what would happen to each character in the story. I can’t wait for the fourth book!

For those of you who don’t know, this story is about an ordinary farm boy named Eragon who happens upon a dragon’s egg – which hatches for him. The boy and dragon share a telepathic link, and become very close friends. But they soon find themselves fighting for their lives and fleeing from the agents of the evil king Galbatorix.

I’m not going to post any spoilers, so go grab yourself a copy of Brisingr, and enjoy a mighty adventure!

I also heartily recommend the first two books, Eragon and Eldest.

Take care, and happy reading!

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