“I was able to stay calm through all of this because I knew you had my back!!!”
Linda Abbit, Tender Loving Elder Care
Jeffrey Dvorkin Review
“On behalf of the Organization of News Ombudsmen, we are delighted with your wonderful work in improving our website. Everyone agrees it’s a terrific improvement.”
Jeffrey Dvorkin, Organization of News Ombudsmen
5 Simple and Minimal WordPress Themes
Previously, I’ve done two sets of simple WordPress themes; 5 Simple WordPress Themes and 10 More Simple WordPress Themes. Since a lot of people seem to appreciate the minimalism of them, I decided to showcase 5 more that I have found over the last month or so.
Sometimes, I think I would like to make the look of this site simpler but I’m not sure what I would remove.
How to Delete Your Facebook Account
There has been a lot of discussion recently about Facebook’s policies concerning our information and what is and isn’t private (not much unless you opt-out). Here is the Evolution of Privacy on Facebook(or perhaps de-evolution) and Wired’s article, Facebook’s Gone Rogue: It’s Time for an Open Alternative. Fast Company also has an article by Gina Trapani about the Facebook settings that we need to check now.
Some people, however, have had with Facebook and just want to delete their accounts. So, here’s how to do it but be forewarned – it’s easier said than truly done.
Page Speed Will Affect Google Page Rank – How to Test Your Page Speed
Recently Google announced that page speed will affect google page ranking. Matt Cutts, from Google, has assured us that this will only affect 1% of the sites being ranked and that for most of us this will be a non-issue. But we can still get all stressed out about it ;-)
One thing I do have an issue with is that frequently the cause of a slow loading site is Adsense, Google Analytics, and Google Maps. So, for google to take site speed into account when it is frequently their own scripts slowing things down seems a little hypocritical. If you want a 100% page speed score, then don’t use google’s stuff (or facebook’s bling either but that will the subject of another post).
