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If you build it, will they come?

December 11, 2009

When I first started developing web-sites, the internet as we know it today didn’t exist. There wasn’t a Google, no one had ever Twittered a Tweet, Facebook and Craigslist weren’t yet even an idea. Yahoo! existed but all you had to do was fill out a form to submit your site to it and there [...]

Maintain search indexes when re-developing a site.

November 16, 2009

Often times when sites are being re-developed URL’s change. A page that previously read as www.sitename.com/about.html on the new site may be www.sitename.com/about-us/. For a human user interacting with the site, this is seldom an issue (aside from the occasional bookmark that needs to be updated) but for a search engine, this can be problematic. [...]

Twitter as an online marketing tool.

May 7, 2009

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past six months, chances are you’ve at least heard of Twitter, a social networking site that allows its members to post status updates in a micro-blogging format. “Tweeting” as it’s been termed has become all the rage from the geek relm (of which we’re proud [...]

How To Do Basic ‘Things’ in WordPress

March 1, 2009

WordPress recently launched WordPress TV a collection of “How To” videos dealing with many aspects of WordPress. The following are some of the videos that our clients will find useful when maintaining their site/blog: Writing and Publishing a Post Saving and returning to draft posts & pages Adding and deleting categories Adding categories and tags [...]

Wordcamp Denver

February 28, 2009

Today I had the privilege of attending Wordcamp Denver today at the Denver Art Museum, a conference put on by Automatic “…created for enthusiasts, users, developers, designers, and fans of WordPress in the Denver/Boulder area.” It would be a mild understatement to say that the amount of knowledge dissipated today was colossal. I can not wait [...]