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Getting Closer

by Matthew Smith · August 10th, 2007 · No Comments

In case you’re wondering, Chappie and I are still alive, despite reports of our recent demise. We’ve just been busy working on other things this week, and plan to return to regular blogging within the next couple of weeks.
The new theme is almost complete (it is now to the testing phase) and should be arriving [...]

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August Goals

by Matthew Smith · August 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

After successfully meeting the majority of our goals for July, we’re adjusting the focus slightly for August. This month, we’re going to focus on getting a redesign and the completion of a new project. Thus, for the beginning of the month, you will see fewer posts here. Don’t worry, we haven’t abandoned the site – [...]

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July Blog Goal Results

by Matthew Smith · August 1st, 2007 · No Comments

If you remember, back at the end of June I issued a personal challenge to Chappie and me. We were to write sixty posts and attain at least 1100 unique visitors, and hopefully increase the number of return visitors in the process. How did we do? Here are the facts (traffic measured by reinvigorate):
Posts
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Matthew Smith, Michael Chappell, and Google?

by Matthew Smith · June 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’m sure you’re all tired of this game by now, but I find it ever so fascinating.
Since the last round of keyword investigations, we have started posting a lot and have added another name to the bill. Yesterday, Chappie (whom has also become intrigued with this phenomena), informed me that searches for Matthew Smith returned [...]

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Goals for July: Record Number of Visitors and Profuse Writing

by Matthew Smith · June 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments

The most visits to digivation.net in the past year peaked in March, with over 800 “unique” visitors (pretty good for a little random-topic site like this). Due to lack of time/distractions/laziness, the writing became less frequent/good and visitations dropped off (reaching a low of barely over 400 in May). With renewed gusto (probably due [...]

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And Now, I’d Like to Introduce…

by Matthew Smith · June 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Ladies and Gentlemen, I’d like to introduce Michael “Chappie” Chappell, the newest addition to the writing talent at digivation! I’ve known Chappie for the duration of my college career – he is a fellow EE (meaning that we have taken almost the same classes for the past four years) and fraternity brother. Not to be [...]

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Site Broken, Now Repaired

by Matthew Smith · June 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Notice: When upgrading to WordPress 2.2, disable all plugins before beginning the upgrade.
This vital piece of information was ignored, and resulted in an unaccessible back-end for around a week (mainly due to my own laziness). However, all is well now.
If you happen to be getting a blank page when loading “upgrade.php” (PHP out of memory [...]

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reinvigorate me

by Matthew Smith · March 6th, 2007 · No Comments

For a while I’ve been using Google Analytics to keep abreast of my site statistics. I recently discovered (and registered with) reinvigorate. First, second, and third impression? I like it a lot! I’ll elaborate later.

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