Mordheim Blog - Update

It has been under two months since I have started my Mordheim Blog, and we are seeing lots of good progress in the Search Engine Rankings.

For almost the entirety of the last 7 weeks, my blog has been ranked on the second page for the keyword "Mordheim" at Google. Just this last week, I've arrived on the first page! My blog has been sitting in the #10 rank for about 3 or 4 days now.

My blog is very content heavy on the word "Mordheim" and is included in the title of my website and in almost every post title and keywords. Many of my categories also begin with the word Mordheim. I currently have 42 posts in my Mordheim blog. That is almost .9 posts a day!

Merry Christmas,
Ashton Sanders

Let it Snow, Let it Snow

On a separate hobby of mine, I came across Tom's Boring Mordheim Blog. Tom is a very skilled miniature painter and modeler. After joining his online community, I helped him to make his home page "Snow."


Check out the link to the blog above to check out (EDIT: see what his header image usually looks like. Now that he has taken down the snowing animation, click here to see the same image Christmas Style. It used to be just a plain .JPG. I replaced it with a Flash Animation, and amazingly, it is a smaller file than the .JPG!

Enjoy,
Ashton Sanders

PHP - Finding the Width or Height of an Image

Knowing the width, height, Image type or attributes of an image can be extremely useful.

I've used this once to make a line of images all line up on the bottom. I found out the height of the image and then added a margin to the top of the image to make the bottom of the image always be 300 px from the to. So if the height of the image was 140, I would make the margin on top of the image = 300-140.

Here's the code to find the height or width of an Image:

<?php

list($width, $height, $type, $attr) = getimagesize("image_name.jpg");

echo "Image width " .$width;
echo "
";
echo "Image height " .$height;
echo "
";
echo "Image type " .$type;
echo "
";
echo "Attribute " .$attr;

?>

Enjoy,
Ashton Sanders

Google Index Spasm (Google Dance)

I call this the Google index Spasm (other's call it the Google Dance):

After a couple weeks in existence, my new blog found itself on the second page for it's main keyword. After fluctuating between rank 12 and 18 for another two weeks, it fell to rank 80+... If I didn't know better, this would have caused me to be very disgruntled.

I don't know the purpose is of the Google Spasm, but it's kind of funny and annoying at the same time.

Today my blog is back up to rank 19 for its keyword. I think some call this the "sandbox" but my site wasn't in it for very long. Although that could be because it is a blog.

-Ashton Sanders