I’ve been involved for a while in teaching the basics of SEO to local business people here in North Devon. Recently, while revising my course notes I decided that to help my trainees get a better grasp of on-site SEO it would be useful to be able to show them the HTML source of pages, colour-coded in such a way that the important elements for SEO purposes would be more obvious
While working on web development projects I often need to copy the contents of one database to another. Consequently I’ve seen the problem described on Alex Kings’s blog a few times, and been able to deal with it using the technique he suggests.
Today however I saw the same symptoms - apostrophes and some other characters translated to weird glyphs in a database that had been saved and restored apparently using UTF-8 coding throughout. How can that happen, I wondered?
If you are have a Drupal site but are not especially technically-minded, it can be hard to find straightforward, concise advice about making the best use of your site.
For that reason I’m starting a new email newsletter that will contain simple tips about Drupal aimed at site owners. Each week there’ll be new ideas for you to improve the experience of your site for visitors, search engines and yourself.
Tips will include recommendations on modules, settings and marketing for your site.
If you are have a WordPress site but are not especially technically-minded, it can be hard to find straightforward, concise advice about making the best use of your site.
For that reason I’m starting a new email newsletter that will contain simple tips about WordPress aimed at site owners. Each week there’ll be new ideas for you to improve the experience of your site for visitors, search engines and yourself.
Tips will include recommendations on plugins, settings and marketing for your site.
Over the weekend I created Limerickipedia as a bit of a joke and an exercise in working with MediaWiki. To get it running I had to overcome a number of obstacles so i thought I’d write them up briefly here. (more…)
A common requirement is to have a Flash-based image gallery associated with a particular content type, so users can upload images using a CCK image field and have them displayed as a gallery, with each node of the type having its own separate one. Here’s an example of the sort of thing, one I created for a project last year.
In this article I’ll show how to make such a gallery, using the excellent Art Flash Gallery with Drupal. It is not to be a detailed tutorial: I’ll just describe the essential steps involved. When I get time I may provide more of the specifics.
Read on about creating an image gallery in Drupal ...
What’s the state of play with Drupal 6? With the publication of a new edition of the Drupal developer’s best friend, Pro Drupal Development, it’s worth taking stock.
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Tweetake is a new application I’ve been working on with Nikki Pilkington. It lets you back up data from Twitter: tweets, followers, favourites and friends. We think it’s very useful and we have plans to make it even better.
Since it was released a few days ago it’s had mixed publicity largely due to an error message that some users such as pixelbits were getting with depressing regularity. I looked into the error and now can report some interesting findings.
Calling yourself Technorati is pretty brave, isn’t it? Every time you yourselves embark on anything vaguely technical, you’d better get it right, or you’ll look stupider than any ordinary mortal would.
So if you were going to send an email out to a list with thousands of bloggers on it, you wouldn’t make the reply-to address point to the list, would you? Otherwise anyone who replied to the email would have their reply - with their email address and other details in it - distributed to everyone else on the list. And that would be bad, and it would make you look foolish, too.
You wouldn’t make such an elementary error, would you, Technorati? Especially not in a mail portentously titled “Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Survey”? Maybe somebody pretending to be you might make such a boob, but not you, O ever wise Technorati! Oh, the hubris!
Ann Smarty’s posts on Search Engine Journal are always worth a read, and this one is a great list of useful online tools for SEO.
Online SEO Tools - the Ultimate Collection
All tools listed below fall under the following criteria:
- they are all useful for SEOs;
- they are all web-based (no desk-top ones or FireFox extensions so far);
- they are all free.
Sites that are easy to use, manage and market.
I'm Alfred Armstrong and Likemind Web Services is my web development company. We specialise in Drupal CMS, WordPress blog sites and Facebook social networking applications.