PLUCK comment section loading slowly – will soon be replaced

Hi Everyone! As you know, we recently installed some Pluck widgets, including related articles and a comment bar.These widgets are loading very slowly, and we may soon replace them. Thank you to everyone who gave them a go recently, especially the comment forms. We regret that any comments you may have added will probably be [...]

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Website Rebuilding Done

Hi Everyone! The behind-the-scenes website reconstruction is mostly done — at least for all the game pages. We’ve got more text on the pages now so that search engines know what the pages are about. I realize it can be a bit annoying for everyone who just wants to see the great fantasy art we’ve [...]

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Rebuilding Website

Hi Everyone! Following SEO advice, we are adding more text to many of the formerly text-less pages, so that search engines can have an easier time with figuring out what is actually on each page. In the process, we are doing some page additions and changes, and you may find that some pages are expanded [...]

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Site Overhaul (mostly) Done

Hi Everybody! Just wanted to thank you for your patience while we overhauled the “look and feel” of our site. We hope it is now cleaner and less cluttered, and easier to navigate. The overhaul is essentially done: All the game pages have been restored, and in many cases restructured, and some new content even [...]

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Blog Roll and Fantasy Art Sites Restored – Sort of

Hi Everyone! As you may have noticed, the blogroll I used to have is no more. After some weird glitch, I lost it. ALL OF IT. Many, many, hours later, I have assembled a new blog roll and list of fantasy artists’ sites. If you are looking for an artist featured on this blog and [...]

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Blog List Wiped Out

Hi Everyone! You may have noticed recently that not only did we move to publish on http://blog.fantasy-art-and-portraits.com, but something happened somewhere and we lost our ENTIRE blog list of artists. No, there wasn’t any backup. Not just of that widget, anyway. So, it’s back to square one with collecting links. If you have any suggestions, [...]

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Qualifications for Dell Online Customer Care position: Reading not required.

A recent encounter with Dell Online Customer Care has me convinced that only two skills are required for that position: Copying Text and Pasting Text. In late August I had to repair my Dell laptop because one of the hinges decided it no longer wanted to turn, and just opening and closing the lid caused [...]

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Marketing on the Fringe — Did it ever work?

Hi Everyone! In yesterday’s post, I mentioned the seminar I attended in which Bud Lethbridge taught various internet marketing techniques. Another technique he demonstrated was Fringe Marketing. He went through three types of Fringe: misspelled words, mistyped words, and non-mainstream terms. Mispelled Words are, for example, “calender” instead of “calendar”. There was no mention of [...]

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Five hours on three pages. I need to get better, faster.

Whew! Finally finished updating a few pages on my site with information on free screensaver-building and wallpaper-making software. Everything needed to be tested, links checked, images positioned… I can’t believe it took so long! In any case, you can now see the fruits of my labour primarily at the Fantasy Art and Portraits “Use Your [...]

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