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.

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

Sorry if blog updates have been slow again, they’ve only been written about once a week (sometimes even less). (more…)

It seems like I’ve offended quite a few people with my list of reasons why Digital Point Sucks. So I’m opening an invitation to everyone who wishes to discuss my blog article more in-depth, exactly four months later. (more…)

I’ve had this inquiry cross my mind a few times, “How do I make a (Insert object here)?” or “What is the answer to (Insert an insanely difficult problem here)?”.

Don’t you ever get tired of not knowing the answer to something? Or looking for something on the web, but come up on the short end of the stick?

For example, some couldn’t think of the name of a song, so do they do hours and hours of lyric searches, radio listens, among a variety of other activities that will get them nowhere.

So what’s the answer? Join a discussion forum.

I’ll do my best here to explain how to use a discussion forum properly and what is involved with them exactly. (more…)

I’m so sick of seeing webmasters making ludicrous offers like “Stumble Me, I’ll Stumble You” or “Free Diggs”. These “deals” undermine the entire concept of a social network like Stumbleupon or del.icio.us. (more…)

For those that aren’t familiar with DP, I’ve composed a list of one hundred reasons to avoid that place (in no particular order): (more…)