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Blogging about home building, renovations, and remodels in San Diego
San Diego's incredible weather means that construction can go on pretty much year round, which makes it quite a busy industry indeed. Despite its well deserved reputation as a tourest destination, it seems that there are as many construction companies as there are tourism related businesses. This makes for a huge market looking a voice, and that's what this blog is all about.
Read on for articles about everything under the San Diego sun, from the history of our beautiful city to the exciting new projects that seem to pop up daily as our city moves forward into the future.
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Steak and Seafood in the Heart of Old San Diego
My grandfather roamed the streets of Little Italy as a young boy dressed in baggy pants and a ball cap, befriending fishermen and their wives alike while his Serbian-émigré-via-Ensenada mother tended to the old San Diego Hotel that she owned in downtown San Diego.
The street smarts he acquired via daily osmosis in this rich cultural milieu contributed essential wisdom that bore fruit throughout his long life. His playful, evenhanded toughness, vice grip handshake, biannual whiskey fueled Las Vegas craps table triumphs, and legendary prowess at deep sea sportfishing were a stunning combination of pure manhood which had to be witnessed to be believed.
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High Traffic Makes for a Tough Climb Up the SEO Ladder
Bringing more people to your website in the crowded fields of home building, construction, kitchen and bath remodels, and the like is by nature a difficult endevor, and even more so in America's eighth largest city. Faced with such a daunting task, many webmasters are understandably tempted to optimize their websites with a heavy emphasis on keyword stuffing and other well known SEO tactics. This too often occurs at the expense of readability, and I know this first hand because I just grappled with that very issue in my first sentence!
("Should I use the phrase "home building" separately or go for a more "long tail keyword"? What about "the buidling trades"? And is there a way to fit "construction companies" into the sentence structure? Hmmm...")
And so on...
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I built my first Joomla(!) website in 2010, back when its market share was much closer to Wordpress'. Since then, just like when VHS clobbered Sony's BetaMax into obscurity, Wordpress' simplified beginner's curve has vaulted it far ahead of the pack in the CMS wars. Anyone with even a moderate bit of experience punching keys on a computer can install it with a few points and clicks and soon be up and running and making blog posts.
But what about going beyond that? You won't have to move too far away from simple Wordpress blogging to run into stumbling blocks that require mucking around in its code. It's almost as if Wordpress lures people in with its simplicity, only to get the average user stuck in a situation where they must then hire a coder to add any extra functionality beyond simple blogging. Hmmm... I wonder if there isn't a "coder's constortium" behind all this...? Haha.
So Why Choose Joomla Over Wordrpress?
Well, for starters: