Okay, I have to thank all of our readers and people that have supported us along the way! It has been over three months now since we launched DavePCGuy.com

Since our launch, we have published 47 distinct, separate, and awesome blog posts! Most of them have been PHP or CSS tutorials and it was quite a ride. We have gotten certain distinctions for these posts, especially our top three posts (in no particular order):

1. CCleaner
2. CSS Intro
3. Color Scheme Designer

According to Google Analytics, and my own research, almost half of our traffic stems from these three amazing articles! In the past month and a half, we have received 4,500 visitors that amounted to almost eight thousand pageviews. Now, the bottom two articles were not visited too much in that time scheme, but they were featured on numerous sites before that which is great. Here are some other posts of note:

1. CSS: Intro to Divs
2. Custom E-mail Form

These two alone contributed to about two thousand pageviews in the past month which is amazing.

Our traffic rank is about one and a half million. Now, that might sound pretty bad, but I’m proud to be ranked among the top one and a half million websites, haha. Why? Type in something to google and see how many results you get. Yeah, that’s right.

Speaking of Google. Let me show you some amazing results:

We’re the first out of 22 million websites! It maybe the only search (besides “davepcguy” together and all those variations) where we come up first, but I think this is an amazing victory!

Since our launch, I have posted 17 articles on my Good-Tutorials Account, 8 of which were actually listed and each one received over six hundred clicks! And all those that I submitted were either CSS or PHP tutorials!

The Color Scheme Designer, the only one submitted under Photoshop category, received over a thousand clicks and a five star rating. The Intro to Divs article received 899 clicks, though with a three star rating. The third place here goes to my second CSS lesson with 689 clicks, the tutorial on Fonts, Borders, and Padding.

According to StumbleUpon, CCleaner was our best hit, with a 1 096 clicks!

Okay, I don’t think I can bore you enough with my success so here’s one more thing, our website’s worth. According to many websites such as My Website Worth, our website’s worth is under a hundred bucks. I was wondering why that is. Well, apparently, most of our traffic data is publicly unavailable. Actually, nothing about our website is publicly available, not the Google Page Rank, not the Pageviews/Day ratio. NOTHING at all! Isn’t that bizarre?

Luckily, a few websites have our traffic data and all that cached before it mysteriously disappeared. Here are the results from CubeStat:

And from Website Outlook, the conclusion is about the same:

Finally, according to WebsiteValued, I was able to plugin my own custom information. It is still not 100% accurate because I started Google Analytics in mid October, after many of my favorite articles have already been posted. But here’s the result:

Note the word “Lower”
As a final note, we made about a hundred bucks in ads, which just about covers our startup costs

Thank you for being such great readers and we really appreciate the time you took to read our articles and all of your encouragement!

Hey everyone, Dave and I are hosting a giveaway. We’ve recently stumbled upon a large number of Google Voice invites and we’re prepared to give them away. Because honestly, we’ve already used a large number of those on ourselves, and neither Dave nor I can keep up with twelve different numbers.

The GiveAway

So here’s the deal, we have ten invites and we’re doing a sort of lottery system. Every two days, we will pick one person that is subscribed to our site through Feedburner and we’ll send them a nice welcome package:) All you have to do is subscribe, and then when we send you our welcome package, just report back, comment on our “GiveAway” post (there’ll be a new one for every winner) and we’ll send you another e-mail with the invite.

subscribe

Use this subscription module in the right side-bar. You’ll have to active your subscription as well otherwise your e-mail won’t show up on our FeedBurner account.

This will go on for almost three weeks.

RULES:

1. You have to subscribe through feedburner. If you subscribe through RSS, that’s alright but we won’t be able to see your e-mail address then
2. You have to comment back to claim your prize, otherwise we won’t know if the e-mail was fake, or if the winner wants the invite
3. You have to agree to let us pick on you in one of our articles haha (okay, that’s not a rule, but we’ll write an article about you anyways)

The GiveAway:

1. The give away features a single unactivated Google Voice invite
2. We are in no way responsible as to what you do with that invite
3. If Google Voice doesn’t work in your country, sorry, but there is nothing we can do about that.

GIVEAWAY CALENDER

Our first giveaway will be on Tuesday, the 10th of November, 2009.

What is Google Voice Anyways?

Google Voice Sidebar

Google Voice is a Google service that allows you to connect several phones together under a single number. For example, my phone has a number X, my home phone has a number Y. If you call my google phone number Z, both my X and Y phones will ring. You can also block people with the service, create your own custom voice mails. You can send texts from your new Google Phone Number, you can call people with it and do all sorts of crazy things.

On the left here, is part of the google voice website, the sidebar. Here, as you can see, you have tons of options.

1. the inbox is where all your text message conversations are recorded (don’t worry, you can delete them) but it’s nice because you can keep track of numerous conversations and save important texts you received. Also, if you’re like me, it happens sometimes that you accidentally delete the SMS messages on your phone and here’s where you can view them. You can also reply to text messages.
2. The Starred messages are just your favorites or bookmarked ones.
3. History as far as I can tell, works the same as inbox, denoting sent and received SMS messages
4. Spam and Trash are self-explanatory
5. Under Contacts, you can save different numbers to use online for texting or placing calls. Note that when you place a call, Google Voice connects your phone and the dialed phone number, it’s not skype. Also, when you get a text message, the text message will have the senders number there. If the sender is in your contact list, their number will be replaced by their name
6. Voicemail will show you, guess what?, your voicemails. There will be a transcribed version as well as an audio recording of the voicemail
7. SMS works just like the Inbox, as far as I’m aware, only filtering out any voicemail and call information
8. Recorded houses all your recorded calls. Just press “4″ during a convo, and the recording starts
9. Placed, Received, and Missed are self-explanatory, they refer to phone calls.
10. Calling Credit: Now this is interesting, the google voice service charges when you call out of country, but ridiculously small amounts. You can set up billing and such and make international calls. Have fun with that.

One great thing about Google Voice is that you can TEXT online and receive the messages as well. Whenever you make a call, Google Voice will connect your registered phone with the targeted caller. You can’t use it like Skype, no online voice chats or anything.

More Features:

Google Voice Settings

Phones: You can change your Google Voice Number, it costs $10 which is honestly not that bad. The initial number is free, so choose wisely. What’s great though is that you can choose any number you want that is available. It doesn’t matter what area code your current number is in or where you live. I have google voice number with a California area code. You can also choose if you want any particular letters, numbers, or words in your number and Google will search its available number list. My number, for example, ends with OMFG (6634) which is pretty cool.

Google Voice Settings Voicemail

Voicemail & SMS: Here are a number of great options. You can record your voicemail greetings online, record your own name that people will hear when they call. You can also get voicemail notifications over your email. There’s an option to choose which phone number to send the text messages to (in case you have multiple phones connected to a single Google Number). There’s an option to forward texts to your e-mail. You can change your voicemail pin (used to access voicemail through your phone) and you can choose to have voicemails transcribed. Simple enough, eh?

Google Voice Settings Call

Calls: Ah, my favorite part about Google Voice. You can screen calls. Whenever a caller dials your Google Number, they will be asked to say their name. Their name will be recorded and once the call reaches you, you’ll hear the recording and chooce whether or not to pick up. You’ve a couple options about the screening. The Call Presentation is just exactly what I’m talking about, when you pick up your phone, you’ll either get a menu with options (whether or not to pick up etc) or you can pick up the same way you would with your regular number. Caller ID is self-explanatory and the “Do Not Disturb” feature will tell the caller not to disturb you and send them straight to voicemail. Neat, huh?

Groups: Here you can filter the previous settings according to your contacts. You can place your contacts into distinct groups (family, friends, work etc) and each group can have different settings.

Call Widgets

Call Widgets: They are, simply put, shortcuts you can put on your website that will connect the users with you. Automatic dialing etc. It’s pretty cool and I might put one here, later.

Billing and Account: self-explanatory Billing is used to add credit to your Google Voice account, and Account has all your password info and stuff

And that’s about it for Google Voice. Don’t forget to Subscribe by E-mail on your page.

Alright, here are some updates. Exan’s Corner has been updated to include two free PSD templates. The third one should be up tomorrow, I still need to do some editing on it. Check it out though.

Dave will be posting a few new articles by the end of the week but ’till then, it’s all up to me. I should have one ready for you about color theory. And I’ll have another tutorial about photoshop later on.

I’m thinking about doing more news stories so you’ll see those later on.

Anyways, I’m off for the night. Hit me up on twitter.

Hello, my name is Alexander and I am the driving force behind WAjanus Designs. I am close to nineteen years old and I currently attend a college in Houston, Texas. My major is Physics, despite my interests in art and the internet, and I plan to pursue a career as a researcher. But enough about that:

I began HTML coding almost ten years ago but only recently picked up on it again so it’s needless to say that I have a lot to catch up on. In the past ten years, the internet changed the world and the world changed the internet. From the introduction of WordPress and CMS to the use of div tags and a CSS oriented web-development, what I knew ten years ago has become 100% obsolete.  My wish is to help you understand the world of HTML/CSS and PHP while I brush up on the new techniques and coding. I have created a few websites in the past but none of them were published, besides my own personal experiments. It was never my strong point but I intend to change that.

So back to Graphic Design,  I am, if not anything else, an artist. I’ve been messing around with photoshop for about seven years now, since I bought my first camera. I started with Photoshop 5.0 and some other image-editing software and have made my way up to CS4, which I currently use. I’ve designed t-shirts professionally, made mock-up templates, but mostly, I’ve been using Photoshop to augment my photography. Recently, I’ve started designing websites and representations of some of my ideas. I’ll be posting about those, too.

Well, I hope I didn’t bore you with this little speech! I just wanted you to know who I am and what I do.