I’m currently in the process of updating my site design and rather impatiently decided to put it live even though its not quite finished. This does mean section of the site aren’t going to be styled properly, especially the blog as it hacks into my main site for resources and CSS styles.
Please bear with me while I get it all sorted.
Thanks.
Today, one or two of you may notice the site looks a little different. That’s because the style sheets for both my site and the blog have been removed for one international day (that’s about 48 hours to you and me) to celebrate CSS Naked Day.
Every year, website developers across the world remove their style-sheets and show off their <body> to help promote web standards. Its a great opportunity to double check and show people that your website is written for and accessible to all.
To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.
No Im not lost, I was logged into my Google Web master tools this morning and saw that my number one search query on google that returned my site has changed to ‘Gavin Taylor’. So I decided to see where I am on various searches, then this time next year I can search again and see how I’ve faired.
| google.co.uk | ||
| search term | search type | search position |
| gavin | web | unknown (page 50+) |
| gavin | uk | page 43, position 5 |
| gavin taylor | web | page 1, position 3 |
| gavin taylor | uk | page 1, position 2 |
| gav taylor | web/uk | page 1, position 1 |
| php developer | web/uk | unknown (page 50+) |
| php developer manchester | web | page 3, position 9 |
| php developer manchester | uk | page 4, position 1 |
not bad results there really, not much to done on searches for my name, going to focus on php developer I think
| bing.com | ||
| search term | search type | search position |
| gavin | web | unknown (page 50+) |
| gavin | uk | unknown (page 50+) |
| gavin taylor | web | page 1, position 3 |
| gavin taylor | uk | page 1, position 2 |
| gav taylor | web | page 1, position 4 |
| gav taylor | uk | page 1, position 2 |
| php developer | web/uk | unknown (page 50+) |
| php developer manchester | web | page 2, position 8 |
| php developer manchester | uk | page 8, position 9 |
interestingly on the web search for ‘gav taylor’, my twitter feed came top.
again searches for my name do quite well, confirms I need to improve seo for ‘php developer’
Will be interesting to see where I end up for these searches in Feb 2011
Well I finally decided to take that next step and write a blog.
Mainly so I can keep people updated as to whats happening in gavs world and also so i can keep a note of thats happening….( im starting to forget things in my old age…)
Its probably not going to be updated a lot as i dont really have time to sit here and write a diary so im going to aim for an update once a week, highlighting the main things that have happened or i found interesting.
As with any blog, i must add a few shameless plugs
That will do for now, I could add a huge list but i cant be bothered.
I have just added a default template for now, i will add a site design to the list of things to do, but for now this one will suffice. As you can see its a blank canvas, I will be updating and adding content when I get time, there’s no rush as your probably the first person to read this and the next reader wont be for another week and then again it will propably be you leah… 
Well its just gone 7am so that means its time to stop playing on the pc and get ready for work.
UKFast…. here I come……. damn another shameless plug…. 