If like me you cringe at most of the Google adsense templates for Wordpress then you’ll really like this theme from the guys at DoshDosh.com. It’s a well thought out and cleverly designed theme that works with Wordpress 2.0 and also supports widgets. more…
RockStartUp.tv follows the exploits of Ted Murphy (CEO and founder of PayPerPost.com) as he struggles to setup his new web 2.0 company, PayPerPost. It’s great viewing and although it might be car crash TV at times it provides an incredibly insightful look at the world of dotcom business. If your thinking about setting up your own web 2.0 business then you can’t afford to miss this, trust me!
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Well it seems everyone and their dog is talking about the Apple iPhone and it remains to be seen as to whether this is the killer app that Apple CEO, Steve Jobs thinks it is. The great news (if it really takes off that is) is that for web developers at least, building websites for this device should be a lot simpler as it comes with a customized version of Safari. So we get all the support for web standards, Ajax, and other niceties that come with it. more…
A great article by Eric Karjaluoto who shares some thoughts on what has helped his firm, smashLAB, remain successful no matter what was thrown at them. It’s vital reading for anyone starting a small web design studio and I particularly like his ideas on working with people. To put in it his words.
In the early years, we made the choice to cut out some potential clients/partners who just didn’t feel right. At the time I worried that we were missing out on opportunities. We weren’t.
Brave but very wise!
One of the greatest things about Wordpress (apart from the fact that its free) is the incredible community support and extensibility that is available. There are plugins for virtually any task you can imagine and here are a list of plugins that form the basis of many websites I produce using the Wordpress platform.
1. All In One SEO Plugin - Gives you access to pagetitle, meta keywords and meta description for posts and pages. Invaluable!
2. Wordpress Backup - Handy backup facility that lets you backup your mysql database tables.
3. Wordpress Dashboard - Gets rid of that bloated Wordpress dashboard that takes ages to load. I love this one!
4. Recent Posts - A flexible plugin which a comprehensive lists of options for displaying recent posts on your wordpress blog.
5. Google SiteMaps - Takes all the hassle out of creating a Google sitemap. Its reliable and even pings Google for you.
If your looking to redirect users to a different page on your site or need to put together an affiliate link then you’ll be happy to know that you can easily achieve this using php, its not complex and it works in all browsers. The code is as follows.
<?php
header( ‘Location: http://www.yourdomain.com/new_page.html’) ;
?>
Simply change the http://www.yourdomain.com/new_page.html with your url or affiliate link. The only thing to watch however is not to send any html to the browser before the script block otherwise it won’t work. So for example, if you used something like this in your page it would fail.
<html>
<head>
<?php
header( ‘Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html’ ) ;
?>
</head>
<html>
To be on the safe side I create a completely blank php page and simply add the php script block and nothing else. If you want to check that your redirect script is working then the best way is to use this headers tool from SEO Consultants. Enjoy!
If like me you a big fan of Wordpress then you may have been fustrated with the lack of an import facility for the new blogger accounts (i.e. those powered by google accounts rather than the old style username and password). Well you can fret no longer as, at last, Wordpress 2.2 has an updated importer. Simply go to the dashboard, then click Manage, Import, Blogger. Job done!
Blogger… we don’t need no stinking blogger!
