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Yet another ISDX skin

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:27:55 GMT

I took a few minutes to slap together another ISDX skin today at lunch...

Another ISDX skin

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:04:30 GMT

I recently "repurposed" another OSWD style for InstantSpot users to get a new look for their spot.

http://isdx.net/index.cfm/designName/Black%20and%20orange

Head over to the InstantSpot Design Exchange at http://www.isdx.net and check out some of the cool custom CSS templates that our users have uploaded. There's a growing library of templates to choose from, and if you sign up at ISDX you can even preview any of the designs live on your Spot before taking the plunge and installing it.

Promoting the Spot

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:26:16 GMT

Dave and I ordered some vinyl window stickers to put on our vehicles...24" wide "Get Spotted!" and "www.InstantSpot.com". The guy who sold them to us warned us not to try applying them when it is cold outside. Being the know-it-all guy that I am, I figured he was just full of it, and that I was all of the sudden an expert at vinyl sticker application.

Well lets just say, I am NOT worth a crap when it comes to stickers! It took me almost an hour to get those stickers on, sorta centered, almost straight, and not-too-bubbly.

I remember seeing guys putting vinyl graphics on cars, and they put some water down on the surface allowing them to position it just right, then squigee (sp?) the excess water away along with the bubbles. Well, either that is just some really convincing special effects, or they weren't trying to do it in a garage that is 35 degrees.

Once I get a chance I will post some pics of the finished product. I think it turned out decent enough.

EDIT: here are the pics

Robots and main page accessibility

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT

On my quest towards e-stardom (aka a relevant and content-rich website), I realized that the navigation towards my older "news items" was somewhat lacking. My solution for this problem was to create a side bar menu that would contain all of the news item titles in descending date order (aka newest first).

A day or two after this change, I began to notice a positive side-effect to including all of these titles as links on the main page...The robots (spiders) were crawling all through my site! I'm not 100% sure, but I can't imagine how this increased indexing would hurt my chances of being returned in some search results.

In a possibly related subject, a Google search for 'Aaron Lynch' now returns this page in the top 10 search results (#6 as of this entry) and an MSN search returns www.AaronJLynch.com as #3!

Does anybody want my autograph?

UPDATE 1/25/06: Either Google has changed my ranking somehow, or my switch to BlogCFC has harmed my accessibility somehow. I now turn up on like page 5 or something terrible. Back to the drawing board!