Apparently a certain search engine that will not be named doesn’t like it when I talk about it. Last night I rejoiced as I found that I was now near the top of the search page when searching for RYAN INSELMANN! Well, the rejoicing is over. I have somehow been bumped off the first page! C’mon unnamed search engine, it should not be this hard to get a decent ranking for my own name. My site is ryaninselmann.com for Pete’s sake. I don’t even know who Pete is but I bet if I searched for his name, I would probably find his site. In fact, if I searched for my name, which is Ryan Inselmann by the way, I would probably find Pete’s site ranked above me. This is ridiculous. I’m thinking of switching all my search duties over to MSN. They have me ranked second. And my old site is first. And just for clarification, when the little line says posted by ryan, it means post by Ryan Inselmann. Geez.
Posted by ryan on March 1, 2005
Hey, I’ve risen to number three when I google my own name! I’m third only to…you guessed it, CSS Vault. It seems that being linked to from a high traffic site has had an interesting effect on my page rank. I suppose I can’t complain though. I have risen above the IUMA page I set up eons ago. And it has brought me more traffic in the last week than I will probably ever get from people searching for my name. So all in all, i feel I have recieved a good amount of google love these last few days. Now if I could only get listed from keywords people are actually searching for. That may be a while since I probably have to post something interesting for that to happen. Oh well, Snapple and I will just have to console each other. Hooray for number three!
Update: To commemorate my higher ranking I have started a new section on my sidebar called “Google Love.” I hope you enjoy it.
Posted by ryan on March 1, 2005
Hey, this site made the Noteworthy list at CSS Vault! Maybe now I will get more google love. I find it very odd that my site shows up eight or nine down when I search for my own name.
Posted by ryan on February 24, 2005
You can make yours awesome in just three easy steps.
- Download iScroll2.
- Install.
- Enjoy.
Posted by ryan on February 23, 2005
Whadaya know, there’s a portfolio! I’m not sure how that got there…it wasn’t there yesterday. As you can see I haven’t done much yet, but I hope to remedy that, hence the portfolio. Check it out!
Posted by ryan on February 21, 2005
Today was interesting. It seems I was on a construction kick with my photos. I think maybe the photo of the power plant seemed like pretty suspicious behavior to the workers there. There were two workers off in the distance that went inside after I took a couple of shots. Then as I was leaving, this guy started walking toward my car. I didn’t talk to him or anything, I really was leaving, and it’s not like the building is a secret or anything. I don’t know, maybe I’m just fooling myself into thinking my day was much more exciting than it really was.
Posted by ryan on February 16, 2005
What was I thinking!? Did I just post about something meaningful with my little php tip? I must remedy this situation. This post is not important or even helpful, but it won’t confuse anyone who is used to reading pointess ramblings when they visit my site.
I recently saw Napoleon Dynamite (ok, I saw it four times) and it’s probably the best movie ever made…if anyone could even know that. There, that was totally pointless. I feel much better now. Now if I could just get someone to bring me my chapstick…
Posted by ryan on February 14, 2005
One way designers add variety to a website is to have a random image appear in the header of the page. A great way to implement this is using the mt_rand() function in php. This function takes two arguments (1 and 5 in the example below) and returns a random integer in the range specified by the two arguments.
Example: <?php $logoId = mt_rand(1,5);?>
Note: I’ve been informed that in php < 4.2.0, mt_rand() must be seeded manually. An easy way to do this is to add this line before your mt_rand() call.
<?php mt_srand((double) microtime() * 1000000); ?>
Once you have a variable ($logoId in this example) containing your random integer, you can use that in the file name specified by the source property of your image tag.
Example: <img src="/images/logo_v<?php echo $logoId;?>.jpg" alt="alt text"/>
In this example, if $logoId is 4 then the image source will be /images/logo_v4.jpg. Likewise, if $logoId is 2 then the images source will be /images/logo_v2.jpg. This is a very easy way to have a random image. Once you have those two lines of code, you just have to make sure your image files exist and you’re done. If you wanted to have six images instead of five, you would just change the 5 in mt_rand() to a 6 and add the appropriate image file to your images folder.
Posted by ryan on February 14, 2005
Well, I figured it was time for a redesign. I hadn’t done one in like a month and a half and since I obviously don’t spend any time putting content on my site, I had plenty. No really, I have been busy with other stuff. What kind of stuff, you say? Well, I’m glad you asked. I’ve recently designed two other websites. (they will not be redesigned every other month…I don’t think) They are both for my church. One is the church’s main site and the other is for our mission trip to Russia. We will be going to Russia over Spring break to work with a local church in Kirov. You can check out the site for more information.
Posted by ryan on February 11, 2005
It’s been awhile since my last post. Honestly, it’s always a while between posts, which is ok since I think it’s been awhile since anyone has looked at this site. I got a new toy for Christmas. It’s a 15” Powerbook G4 and it is super cool! I will hopefully have time to post more about it later.
Posted by ryan on December 30, 2004