The best way to display your email address on a website?

Spam, whatcha gonna do? I didn’t have my email address up on the blog from the start, this was for a reason. Spam is a major problem for all users and webmasters especially are exposed to this, as they will by and large wish to be contactable, and so have to make their email address [...]

Thoughts about web design issues for a new webmaster

Blog it yourself In this entry I’d like to talk about my thoughts on web design issues for a new webmaster, but firstly I’m going to talk about the reasons why I decided to do this blog entirely on my own. Get in the ‘professionals’? I could have taken the option to bring in outside professionals [...]

New theme

Introducing Ikarus White Yippeeeeeee. I’ve finally gotten around to changing the theme I’m using on makingapokerwebsite.com to something a bit funkier than the more staid original Kubrik theme. I’m using the Ikarus White theme from http://www.wpthemespress.com/. Looking sexy in white? Of all the ones I’ve tried it seems to match the closest to what I would [...]

Made it to top 30 in google.com

Making it on Google A few days ago when I did a search on google.com, as I have done a few times since I started this site for the terms ‘making, poker, website’. I spotted that google had finally found me, in fact I was in the first 30 sites, not bad going I think for this blog which [...]

Reality Bites

Ho hum Well so much for my weekly update. Unfortunately my only means of income at the moment is from actual poker play, and I really needed to put in some decent hours. Focused on poker I don’t want to talk about my poker life in general on this blog, so I’ll just say my [...]

Falling behind on updates

Been doing stuff It’s been over a week since my last update to this site. I’m not too happy with myself about that, however I do have many other things on the go. Drifting in Madrid I was in Madrid for most of the past week for the first event of the 2009 Spanish Poker [...]

Time to get to know WordPress a bit better

Visit me, please, pretty please At this point, my making a poker website blog hasn’t had many visitors, but if you are one of the few who has come here for a look, then you’ll notice it’s very basic looking. Eh got a good personality In fact this plain look is largely intentional. I am not [...]

A conversation with an old online pal of mine

Consider yourself my mate Over the years I have built up a number of contacts on msn, mostly from the poker world, from many different countries, most of whom I’m never actually met, but nonetheless would consider friends, well in that unique online sort of way. Starting poker sites back in the day One such character [...]

The first couple of steps

Creating a poker website Ok, so how does one begin to do a poker strategy website. Well before you can get going, you need to do a couple of simple steps. Choose a name for your site Not as easy as it sounds. All the obvious names are gone I’m afraid, so you are going [...]