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		<title>Forced FTP Login in WordPress using GoDaddy Resolved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Merrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was struggling with something in WordPress, any time I would try and make a change to a plug in or try and upgrade it would prompt me for a FTP Login. This was frustrating me as this blog was the only one I&#8217;ve set up so far that was giving me these problems. So it became my personal quest to try and find a fix for it Upon searching I found that the reason it was asking me to enter FTP information is because it did not have permission to write to the location on disk that it needed to, so it was forcing it to be done through FTP. It&#8217;s an ingenious design, but the problem for me was that even after <a href='http://michaelmerrell.com/2010/03/forced-ftp-login-in-wordpress-using-godaddy-resolved/'>[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Site Maps, An Important Part of a Website&#8217;s Diet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Merrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a SEO nut you already know why site maps are important, they give search engines an easy way to tell what content is on your site, where it is and what importance it is. A site map is vital for websites that use flash, JavaScript or any other type of navigation that can not be comprehended by search engines. Unfortunately, it is also harder to create site maps as you will have to do the majority of the leg work manually. That&#8217;s one of the downsides, in my opinion, of using flash for navigation. It may look really nice and be flashy and have great curb appeal, but it is very bad in the realms of SEO because to put it simply <a href='http://michaelmerrell.com/2010/03/site-maps-an-important-part-of-a-websites-diet/'>[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Three (3) Column Layout Best Practices for SEO Value</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Merrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone can tell you that even if a web exceeds expectations in functionality if it isn&#8217;t visually appealing it is doomed for failure. This is where some of the greatest difficulty in creating a website comes in, making one that is both functional and appealing to the eye can be hard if you don&#8217;t an artist on your side. This is the problem I face when creating a website from scratch, my artistic nature is more in the logic and functional side of things and not on the visual end. So when I create a website I generally go with the tried and true method of a simple three column layout. Previously to accomplish my goal of this simple layout I would use tables, but <a href='http://michaelmerrell.com/2009/12/three-3-column-layout-best-practices/'>[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adding Social Media Links to WordPress Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Merrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media is all the rage these days, with Facebook being the second most trafficked website in the world currently.  And with MySpace and Twitter both in the top 15 websites as well it is easy to see why tapping into these huge media outlets is important for any content published on the web. Most news outlets and major blogs have this functionality built in, it would seem fitting that WordPress would have it too, but as I found out it’s really best that it doesn’t.  The reason for this is because when you get packaged functionality it is usually not what you want, which in the case of adding social media buttons is what I found to be the case. So again I went <a href='http://michaelmerrell.com/2009/10/adding-social-media-links-to-wordpress-blog/'>[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adding Code Snippets to WordPress Blog Posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Merrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being that I wanted to try and keep this blog as code centric as possible I quickly realized that I needed an easy and effective way to add code snippets to my blog posts.  So thus began my search into an effective way to add code to my blog posts.]]></description>
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