Brandon M Cook

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CBS Sports, Over Advertising

  • December 11th, 2011 | 
  • Posted in Funny

The areas circled in blue are missed advertising opportunities on our fantasy football web site hosted by CSB Sports. Just sell all the empty space!

 

Excessive Web Page Advertising

For some reason I really want a Steak and Cheese sub from Subway.

 

Top Songs of 2011

  • December 11th, 2011 | 
  • Posted in Music

I decided to expand this list a bit. There was some great music that was released in 2010 that I didn’t catch till 2011.

1. Sophia – Laura Marling

2. Little Black Submarines – The Black Keys

3. Lee Van Cleef – Primus

4. The Longest Day – Megafaun

5. The Beast – Laura Marling

6. Entrance Song – The Black Angles

7. Running From the Cops – Phantogram

8. Do I Wait – Ryan Adams

9. Mouthful of Diamonds – Phantogram

10. Coming Soon

Listen on Spotify - http://goo.gl/QOk8U

 

Super Secret Page Speed Techniques – Well, Not Really

  • November 26th, 2011 | 
  • Posted in SEO

I’m into the whole page speed thing. It’s fun to measure your page speed score, then find new solutions to boost it up. But, I have had my up and downs when it comes to keeping my sites super, duper speedy. I’m pretty obsessed with it. I’m extremely unhappy when my site has been declared as “slow” by Google when I’ve played by all of the page speed rules.

Page Speed Graph

One of the best tools that I have used to measure page speed is the Page Speed extension for Google Chrome. I seem to get the most accurate and consistent results with this tool. There are some things that these tools won’t or can’t tell you. So, I’ve outlines a few things that I’ve done that seem to have delivered results.

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Handy Tools for Web Development

When thinking about what would make for a good first post on my site, I decided that it might be a good idea to mention some of the tools that I have used to put it all together to this point. I am by no means an expert when it comes to any of this stuff but, a lot of the information that I’ve listed here may be helpful to some readers/visitors/passerby’s.

Building a WordPress Theme

Blog Spoon Graphics

Chris Spooner’s tutorial “How to Build a Custom WordPress Theme from Scratch” is a great place to start for anybody that wants to build there own custom WordPres theme. No previous WordPress experience required. The tutorial outlines all of the important files that need to updated in order for your custom theme to work properly.

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