In case you hadn’t noticed, I don’t update this site as often as some may like. The reason for this is simple, I’m absolutely exhausted. I’m not going to go into the exact specifics of “Who said what”, it’s been a slow, gradual process that’s finally manifested itself to a boiling point.

Although I enjoy building and designing website structures and templates, the vast majority of the “Get Rick Quick” and “I don’t care about facts” mindsets people convey incited me to think twice about entering this profession. The lack of knowledge in these circles is astounding. Some ignoramuses who don’t know the first thing about coding websites and designing databases think terms like dofollow and “Off Page Optimization” are legitimate. Other fools still believe Visible PageRank is an accurate measurement tool in anything. And some decide to defend these positions vigorously.

Unbelievable!

If I can take away one thing from posting on “forum debates” and elsewhere however, it’s that conversing with people that have next to no experience on website building and a lackluster understanding on simple concepts like HTML structure is an absolute time-waster.

It’s not about “agreeing with everything I say” or “using only my methods”, doing so for the sole purpose of agreeing with someone doesn’t have any logic to it. But when their views are challenged with hard evidence and facts, they choose to either make personal attacks, bury their heads in the sand and mumble “Blah, blah, blah”, or continue to follow the words of self-proclaimed experts and listen to their gospel like sheep. Seriously, it’s like debating with four year olds.

If you want the state of the industry summed up in a nutshell, heed this quote from Adam Senour (one of the few people online that I still hold a great deal of respect for):

One person starts lie that sounds good.
People believe lie that sounds good.
People promote lie that sounds good as ultimate solution.
If someone comes along and either questions lie or argues that lie is not ultimate solution, people must resort to aspect of lie that sounds most applicable to question.
If no applicable aspect of lie can be found, resort to randomly-selected training-binderesque aspect of lie that has nothing to do with actual problem in attempt to confuse.

In other words, lie, and when called out, create intentionally vague environment.

So the bottom-line here is basically, it’s pointless trying to educate people that refuse to listen or want to be helped. I’ll still continue my WordPress business I started a few months back, and I’ll be happy to answer genuine newbie questions on my forums. However when it comes to forum discussions or other forms of debates on Web Development tactics, SEO, or whatever else, I’m done trying to otherwise “help”. I’m tired of explaining things in a vacuum.

Awhile back, I wrote a post complaining about Bioware’s lack of inclusion of southpaw controls in their hit sci-fi series Mass Effect. (more…)

After over a YEAR of planning and composing, I’ve finally manifested my ideas into one great WordPress Project. (more…)

Alright, this had been driving me nuts for months, and all the online tutorials and guides sucked ass. And after hours through trial and error coding, I finally discovered the correct portions and amount of code to use.

So basically, I’m going to explain here exactly what you need to do to create a simple PHP / MySQL backed DB-driven website that draws all of the data straight from the database.

An example URL of a page we’ll create could look like this:

http://www.site.com/index.php?id=1 (more…)

If you’re a web designer or programmer, but you just can’t seem to put your skills to good use, then I’d highly recommend doing freelance work. “But where do I begin?”, you ask. Well, here’s what I did: (more…)

Idiocy comes in many forms. This is predominately common for the online world.

If you haven’t noticed, blogs and other community-oriented websites (this one being a fringe example) become bombarded with this form of ignorance every single day. On average, I’ll read about ten to fifteen topics a day from clueless people that more or less destroy the IQ of whomever is viewing their messages.

If you’re going to make a post on a forum somewhere, or especially if you’re going to write a comment on this website, adhere to the following tips precisely! (more…)

I’ve been working on a new page over the last few hours, as you may have guessed after glancing at the header navigation bar. (more…)

After spending tons of fun trying to solve different riddles over at Webmaster-Talk, I decided to take my skills to the next level, and design some puzzles of my own, specifically for website owners and developers. (more…)

Want to promote your arrogance? Here’s a few sample phrases I use to agitate people I know; mostly my own family, just for some good fun. I came up with them myself, there was no Google searching or eavesdropping on other conversations of any kind. I’ve used them for awhile though… (more…)

Not sure which programming language you want to learn? Don’t even know if you want to write software, develop websites, or enter some other sort of programming field? Well below I composed a list of the top languages you can start learning today:

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