Many people are focused on duplicate content penalties. I’ve haven’t seen the duplicate content issues as big a problem as people make it out to be but here are some very helpful tips on handling vBulletin to reduce any chance of duplicate indexing. 1) disable the "search engine friendly" archive. All this does is create […]
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Editing WordPress Pages with Ecto
As most of you know by now we are big users of Ecto for editing our weblogs, across all platforms including WordPress and Typepad. Lack of Ecto support for WordPress is one of the main reasons I stuck with Typepad so long. Ecto just makes things so much faster and more convenient. One very large […]
Online Video for Clients
This is a great commercial website which has really taken advantage of online video – they call it Topskips TV but it’s really just rubbish bins. A very visual demonstration of their rubbish containers of different sizes, it’s certainly easy to watch. Topskips TV has convinced of the value of video on the web. It […]
Foiling Email Harvesters and Coping with Spam
A very interesting discussion at Slashdot earlier this month about how to stop spam. There were many suggestions involving images with obscured characters, but that’s just not acceptable for business. A lot of these suggestions are fine for personal sites; but if you’re actually in business they aren’t practical.We use Javascript. You don’t want to […]
Forums for WordPress sites: bbPress
Time for some forums for client sites.Second I wanted to introduce an old friend you are all probably familiar with from our support forums, bbPress…. It has some pretty cool features, such as tagging, RSS feeds, Akismet spam protection, AJAX interaction, but the team focused the most on creating something fast and light.
Immediate help with images
If you need to get some images up on your website in a hurry, here’s a bit of code which is extremely straightforward: Lussumo Filebrowser. The filebrowser is a lightweight PHP application that allows you to thumbnail images and view them in a web browser. That’s it. Short and sweet. While it’s too lightweight for […]
Download YouTube Videos Hasslefree | Great Linkbait
Download your YouTube videos hasslefree and for free. Great job Techcrunch. Nice tool. Not overcommercialised (looking at you SEOchat.com).
A Short History of Free Proposals
Veerle Pieters lashed out recently at freeloader clients. The client in question would be a big client (city website in Belgium). That particular city wasn’t content with a design mockup alone oh no they even had the audacity to state that the design revisions to that mockup had to be free too. You only got […]
Weblog Posting in Firefox
My acquaintance Nick Wilson of threadwatch.org fame (founding editor) has created an interesting Firefox plugin for posting to one’s weblog directly from within the browser.
Eastern European Success Stories for the Taking
Learn more about successful projects by emerging Czech companies taking over the market.
Interesting PhotoPlugins For WordPress
We are working hard on some gallery stuff of our own, but there are a couple of simple and powerful plugins over at InternetVibes.net for galleries in WordPress. The first one will allow you to create a post all of images based on an uploaded gallery.
Foliovision Principles
To make the web work for you. What do we mean by that? Your website will work to expand and support your business, seamlessly.
