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Why WordPress?

About three months ago, I made a momentous decision where vAssistant Services was concerned: going forward, everything I build will be built in WordPress, for myself or anyone else. What follows is how I came to that decision and why it might matter to you.

Anatomy of a Hyperlink

If you don’t consider yourself a ‘technical’ person, life online can get a little overwhelming at times. Even simple things like linking to another post or webpage from a post in your own blog can make you feel like a simpleton. Before you beat yourself up too much, let’s get one thing straight, ok? You’re not stupid because you don’t know something. You just haven’t learned it yet, ok? You have your own area of expertise, and if HTML, CSS and other web-related concepts aren’t it - so what!?!

Defrag Your Hard Drive Regularly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. For additional tips and tricks that aren’t published here, you may want to subscribe to vAS News. Thanks for visiting!Defragmenting (a.k.a. ‘defragging’) your hard drive is one of the best things you can do to speed up your computing experience. Here’s a [...]

How Does Your Site Rank?

There are two main ways websites are compared and ranked and each of them has problems, but nonetheless, have become the ’standard’ measurement tools. The first is Alexa ranking and the second is Google PageRank.
Today I want to introduce you to your Alexa ranking. What the heck is that? Well, it’s a popularity rank [...]

NoFollow, DoFollow - Do You Know or Even Care?

You may have heard some buzz about “NoFollow” or “DoFollow” and are wondering what do those terms mean? And more importantly, do you (or should you) care? If you’re a blogger, you should at least know what the terms mean and why, and probably should care (in my humble opinion.)
NoFollow refers to code in an [...]