Patrick Coombe

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A friendly SEO audit of MattCutts.com

Note: Per the title, this is a friendly audit and more of a project-style post and not an attack or personal criticism of Matt in any way. I resepect Matt as an engineer and a person. To start off, it is worth noting that this is the epitome of a non-commercial hobby blog. He is not selling anything, has [...]

By |2015-06-09T23:47:35+00:00June 9, 2015|Blog, Reviews, SEO|Comments Off on A friendly SEO audit of MattCutts.com

Print Design: 2015 Wall Calendar

This latest print design project is actually a gift for my wife. My wife loves calendars, and organizing things. I recently came across a new type of calendar while I was visiting a local business a few weeks ago. It has been stuck in my head ever since then. What really stuck out was the fact that the entire [...]

By |2015-05-29T22:48:00+00:00May 29, 2015|Blog|Comments Off on Print Design: 2015 Wall Calendar

How to create a simple favicon .ICO in Photoshop

Since the dawn of modern web browsers the favicon has been used as a mini-icon to represent the brand of your website in your browsers title bar. Over the last few years, the favicon has grown up. We have icons, favicons, shortcut-icons, apple touch icons and many more. These icons have various default settings in quality and size. Today [...]

By |2015-05-23T01:06:51+00:00May 23, 2015|Blog, How Tos, WordPress|Comments Off on How to create a simple favicon .ICO in Photoshop

American Flag PSD Design and PDF / JPEG/ PNG Download

Hello my fellow Americans! I originally designed this American Flag in 2015 during my time learning Photoshop. I really had no idea how many specifications were involved in the American flag design, I really thought it was just some stars and stripes. Turns out there are a ton of rules when creating the flag. With that said, please just [...]

By |2015-05-18T22:59:43+00:00May 18, 2015|Blog|Comments Off on American Flag PSD Design and PDF / JPEG/ PNG Download

WHMCS Installation: an illustrated step by step guide

Whether you are a ginormous hosting company or a one man band, WHMCS can help you manage tons of domains. I've been using it personally for a number of years now, and have recently added another install since I've co-founded our hosting company. If you landed here, chances are you need some help getting setup. This is no easy [...]

By |2015-05-14T00:08:19+00:00May 14, 2015|Blog, How Tos, Network Admin|Comments Off on WHMCS Installation: an illustrated step by step guide

Click tracking Gmail signature social network icons (no plugins)

I've literally been asked this question about 20 times over the years, it is now time I write a post about it. The steps are easy: Find icons Upload them to a server Add them to Gmail signature Hyperlink them w/ click tracking Finding the icons This part is easy for me, since I already made my own social [...]

By |2015-05-13T23:36:48+00:00May 13, 2015|Blog, How Tos|Comments Off on Click tracking Gmail signature social network icons (no plugins)

How To Fix WordPress wp-admin 403 Forbidden

I don't know why, but I keep seeing this on many different servers, with various different profiles. Over the past year, I've seen this problem randomly happen to at least 10 different websites. One day everything is fine, then an update happens to WordPress, PHP or Apache and poof, WordPress wp-admin spits out a 403 forbidden error. To keep [...]

By |2015-05-12T22:51:37+00:00May 12, 2015|Blog, How Tos, WordPress|Comments Off on How To Fix WordPress wp-admin 403 Forbidden

Fun with Twitter’s new internal web browser

Twas playing with Twitter on my Android today, minding my own business when I came upon Twitter's new internal web browser. First thing to know about Twitter's new internal web browser is that it is part of the main Twitter app. Anytime you tap a hyperlink URI (not a hashtag) the web browser will open in a "new tab" [...]

By |2015-05-12T16:55:53+00:00May 12, 2015|Blog, Reviews, Social Media|Comments Off on Fun with Twitter’s new internal web browser

Desk cable management for total psychopaths

Note: there are no ads, affiliate links, or anything else shady within this post. I was, and always be a military man. I like my workspace super clean, organized, and free from clutter. I'm a huge electronics and PC guy, so that means taking cable management to the next level. Here is the solution that I've recently implemented where [...]

By |2015-05-07T01:20:51+00:00May 7, 2015|Blog, Personal|Comments Off on Desk cable management for total psychopaths
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