Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Developing Good SEO For Your Site

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

One of the most important considerations in DIY website design involves getting website design templates that are search engine friendly. This is essential because many do-it-yourself website design suites are based on content management system (CMS) platforms that may not allow you to control page titles, meta descriptions, and other factors that are going to determine how well your site ranks in the search engines. (more…)

SEO Tools To Analyze Your Clients And Competitors Websites

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

There are a number of SEO tools I use on a daily basis to help me analyze a client or competitors website. I will use specific tools depending on what type of data I am looking to analyze. These tools can save you a lot of time when researching links, on-page/off-page SEO, social media, ORM, and site analytics.

Best of all.. each of these tools all free! (more…)

Great Blogging Tool You Have Never Heard About

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Darren Rowse poses an interesting question in asking What are Your Favorite 10 Blogging Tools? It clearly also is a topic that will generate a great deal of comment and discussion given the popularity of his Problogger blog.

It’s time for a little discussion – lets talk blogging tools. Over in the ProBlogger.com forum there’s been a lot of talk about different tools, applications, platforms and plugins that helps to improve blogs. I’m loving the different opinions and experiences and thought it’d be a good question to open up to the wider community – what are your favourite 10 blogging tools? I suspect most of us will probably include our blogging platform (Blogspot, WordPress, TypePad etc) in the list somewhere but other than that anything goes. Perhaps it’s a comments tool, perhaps a desktop editor, perhaps a plugin or widget – anything goes!

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Writing Site Content Through A Block

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Anyone who writes a regular blog knows about writers block. But no matter how much time you spend staring at that blank page, the article just never writes itself.

Pity.

So how do you overcome writers block?

Here are a few tips.

Topic Selection

It’s not that there aren’t plenty of topics to write about, the problem is we often feel we need to say something new. The reality is that not much is genuinely new. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. (more…)

How To Make Your Site Social Media Friendly

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Numerous companies are losing vast amounts of revenue due to their web sites doing poorly in the search engines.  Web sites that are not easy to find via search miss out on attracting new customers as well as repeat customers that use Google to navigate sites they already know about. Is the same true for web sites that are not social media friendly?

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Using Thesis To Change Your Design Without Coding Changes

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

When I mention Thesis a lot of people don’t really get the value of it, to them Thesis is just a design. However they don’t understand Thesis and miss the real value of  Thesis as a framework. (more…)

Open Source Monitoring With GroundWork 5.3 Release

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Groundwork, the provider of the open source based network management software, announced  the availability of GroundWork 5.3. The new platform increased scalability, the number of devices managed by a single subscription, and avoids per-node licensing.  (more…)

Run Web Applications Natively On Your PC

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Google has come up with a technology called Native Client that is related to the open source world!

It is specially designed for website developers to execute rich code in a faster way within the browser… (more…)