Recent Projects
On this part of Nate’s online resume, you can read about Nate’s latest projects. Here he explains the projects he started, the challenges he encountered, and the solutions he found.
Practical Manliness Launched
A couple weeks ago (on February 22, to be exact), I launched my newest blog, Practical Manliness.
I have been planning and preparing for this launch for nearly five months, so I am very excited to finally have the site launched.
To celebrate the launch, I have…
published 13 posts.
run a giveaway of a Leatherman wave.
started a Facebook [...]
Facebook Media Campaign Created
In less than three hours, I have just created a Facebook media campaign complete with a group, a poll, and some traffic.
I made this campaign with the goal of helping to stop the current health care “reform” bill that is winding its way through Congress. After I heard yesterday that the bill had passed the [...]
New Wordpress Installation Site Launched
I have just finished designing and perfecting my newest site – Expert Blog Install. Through this site, I now offer free professional Wordpress installations to anyone who purchases hosting through one of my affiliate links.
Why Free?
I am able to offer this as a free service because the hosting companies pay me $65 – $100 for [...]
MarilynMoll.com Redesign Completed
Today I have officially completed my redesign of MarilynMoll.com – the private blog of The Urban Homemaker’s owner. After about twenty hours of work, I took the blog from a basic Wordpress blog with all the original defaults to an search-engine-friendly, social-media-optimized, and (hopefully) visitor-welcoming blog.
What I Accomplished
Updated the Wordpress version from 2.3 to 2.8.
Customized [...]
DFS Ebook Published
Today, I published my first ebook on DFS! I have spent a long time planning and designing (built in MS Word and published to PDF format) this ebook, but, now that I have had the practice, I expect future ebook projects to progress much more quickly.
Original Idea
When I first came up with the idea [...]
Ranking #1 in Google
Obviously, this online resume is only useful if people find it, so I have been working on optimizing this site for search engines.
Now, when someone searches for “Nate Desmond” the top result is my online resume! Gaining this position was pretty simple because “Nate Desmond” is not a very common name and there are fewer [...]
Designed Personal Correspondence Card
About a year ago, I used to send lots of card and letters to friends and relatives. However, after a while, I started running out of time, and, without really realizing it, I finally stopped all together.
Recently, however, a series of events have revived my interest in the art of letter writing. First, I received [...]
Updating Wordpress Version for Marilyn Moll
A few days ago, I updated the Wordpress version for MarilynMoll.com. I am in the process of redesigning her blog to match her main site, TheUrbanHomemaker.com. As a part of that process, I updated her verison of Wordpress from 2.3 to 2.8.1.
Attempted Automatic Upgrade
First, after getting the information for her admin panel, server, and FTP, [...]
DFS Search Visits Growing
Over the last couple of months, I have done a lot of SEO work on Debt-free Scholar. Slowly but surely, that work is finally starting to pay off. Between May and June, the number of monthly search engine visits more than tripled from about 500 in many to more than 1600 in June.
Yesterday, a new [...]
Scheduling Posts for DFS
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been busy writing as many posts as possible for Debt-free Scholar. My goal is to have over 100 posts completed by the time school starts.
I am writing all these posts now and scheduling them using the Wordpress schedule feature and Google Calendar so that, once school starts, [...]