Welcome to Ackadia…

Introduction

Run by a (retired) computer consultant, Ackadia is a family friendly site offering help and articles on web design, computers, general interest, education, RPGs and PC games

The specific areas I concentrate on change with the seasons, with the current emphasis being on online games If people ask I will generally write or research specific topics. Equally so, if you have a suitable article you'd like to submit (for a byline and linkback), by all means send it to me.

Currently: Trying to get my act together!

~ Paul

This months plugs:

• iPod repairs : Get yours fixed faster than ever!
  
  
  
• Website Design : Build a website for any type of Business
  
  
  
• ADSL Router : Compare ADSL router and prices from top stores in Australia.
  
  
  
• I also re-developed a web site for a consultant psychiatrist friend, Doctor Michael Scott, a specialist in post traumatic stress disorders. His original site - for comparison - is here: MichaelJScottPTSD.com.
  
  
  
  

Update, June 2009

Playing with a few ideas (for articles) at present and spending a lot of time reading, and on Twitter.

May 2009
*Sigh* This site used to be Page rank 7 with cross the board high ranking. Alexa is down to a sad 575,000 now. Really need to stop playing games and get back into the right frame of mind to work!
(A week or two later): What the … . Recovered the Alexa a little up to 474,299, then all a sudden my PR dropped to zero across the board! The only changes I've made is a perfectly kosher .301 redirect to reduce canonical errors and removing some of the Google ads to tidy the place up. One first is approved by Google and should in theory improve my rating. NOT happy about this as it took over ten years to build it up. I've reset the .htaccess and I'll have to do some digging to look into it.
(Day or two later): Ranks are returning to normal. Stupid canonical difference, the search engines really need to get their act together on this!

Google Analytics show a staggering 38,277.27% increase in traffic, but that's due to fixing a javascript conflict rather than anything else. Hmmm!



Recently (April 2009)joined Twitter. It has that utterly useless look of brainless trivial nonsense to me. Guess that explains the popularity of it. Sign me up!

Can't say I like the default flash offering on Ackadia. Let's try the purple flash option, failing that, nice clean html! As an aside, VERY suprised there's no widget for Wordpress.

*Minutes later*

Nope, don't like the first option. The second is better, but needs tweaking. HTML needs optimising and blending on a site by site basis. I did add it for a short time myself, then tore the lot out: due to the sluggish nature of Twitter, their javascript calls can add considerable delays to your web load times.