Houston Clubs web design and life

How to measure your keyword density

Dec 26, 2008 by Paul White

Since none of the search engines publish the exact keyword densities they look for, nor do they publish how they come to calculating the figure. I have set forth to determine a logical way to making this calculation.  If you every wanted to know how you can do your own calculation by code, read on.

SEO domination on Google

Dec 22, 2008 by Paul White

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.  It involves designing websites to maximize search engine referrals.  Anyone can build  a website, but to build one with search engines in mind takes alot of time patience and planning.  Here I list some details on what elements are important with SEO. Including something I mistakenly discovered

Best program for converting videos to FLV

Dec 21, 2008 by Paul White

Flash is by far the best format for streaming videos on your website.  Thanks to YouTube the FLV format has become almost in industry standard.  Now that you know you want flash, you have to pick a program to do your encoding.  I tried many, and recently I came across one program that blew the rest away. Sothink Flash Video Encoder is the best FLV encoder I have ever used.  Read more for details and link

Spring Valley Home for Sale

Dec 21, 2008 by Paul White

Even though real estate in Houston tends to be on the cheap side.  There are a few neighborhoods that are turning into the Texas version of Malibu.  Spring Branch and Spring Valley off I-10 are two of these areas.  I was driving through there the other day, and I was amazed by how these communities were being transformed.  Land values in the area alone will go for $350K and up.   Some people are just fixing up the original 1950's homes, others are ripping them down and building custom million dollar estates. I noticed this beautiful Spring Valley home for sale on the corner of Bingle and Westview currently for sale.  What is great about the homes in Spring Valley is the high number of million dollar homes.  I give it 5 years before you won't be able to get a home in this area for under a million dollars.  At $407K this one is a steal.  You have to see all the photos to appreciate it.

Cheapest Sushi in Houston

Dec 20, 2008 by Paul White

For years my wife and I have enjoyed Oishii Japanese Restraunt.  The sushi was always fresh, and the service was always great.  One other thing kept us coming back.  Their prices are the cheapest in houston.  My favorite is their Happy hour 3PM - 7PM weekdays.  Buy one get one free on several rolls including spicy salmon.  Normally you get 6 pieces for $4.00.  During happy hour you get 12 pieces for $4.00.  My wife and I could walk in and walk out stuffed with sushi, for under $20 including Tip.  Click the read link to see where its at.

Adobe ditches ASP.NET Support in Dreamweaver CS4

Dec 20, 2008 by Paul White

I first started making websites using frontpage, then I started using dreamweaver, and life was good.  This was back in the days when dreamweaver was run by macromedia.  Back when Dreamweaver was in version 4.0 ( way back ).  Well on the latest release of CS4 I guess Adobe decided that it was better to not provide any support for .NET guys like myself than to provide support for older ASP.NET 1.1 components.  I recently updated to CS4 only to discover this after the fact.  To say the lease it was not a good day.

Windows 7 to increase hardware sales

Dec 19, 2008 by Paul White

With the huge disappointment of Windows Vista. Microsoft needs to make waves with the highly anticipated Windows 7 OS.  There have been several rumors, some of which could have a huge impact on sales for hardware manufacturers.  Keep in mind there are just rumors.  But if true Microsoft may been a good company to invest  come June 2009.

MySQL 5.1 dump files won't restore on MySQL 5.0

Dec 19, 2008 by Paul White

If you are using MySQL 5.1 ( the latest and greatest stable version as of this posting ) then you are sure to learn the hard way that the dump files from a MySQL 5.1 DB do not restore to a MySQL 5.0 installation.  Of course when you go to MySQL's website they don't give you a very straight forward answer.  Her is the easy fix for this issue.

Why GM must stay in business

Dec 18, 2008 by Paul White

Normally I am pretty anti GM.  But a few years ago Cadillac had this concept car.  It was rumored to be the replacement for the XLR.  If GM has the intent of actually bringing this car into production, then by all means keep them in business. 

utilizing your core i7 with SETI at home

Dec 17, 2008 by Paul White

Now that you have your awesome new core i7 workstation ( like me ), its a shame that whenever you look at task manager you rarely see your 8 processing threads being utilized.  Well if you are one of those people that prefer your 4 cores not being hanging around the water cooler all day ( System Idle Process ). Then I have just the program for you.  Help in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI )