2008

WordPress Theme

by Joshua Unseth on December 18, 2008


Wanna build a wordpress theme from the ground up? That’s noble of you. I started constructing an user guide that would get anyone who wanted to do it started, but the task was tedius. I still want to do it, but not today. In the meantime, there are others who’ve already undertaken the task. List [...]


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Caching for Super SEO

December 16, 2008

A lot of these Open CMS frameworks use a lot of calls to the database in order to generate their content. One of the sites I work with has been pretty well traficked. But I increased traffic overnight by 20% simply by using the WP Super Cache plugin. For WordPress, WP Super Cache is an [...]

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SpiderMarket’s Facelift

December 14, 2008

So, I figured that this is a blog focused on internet magazines and newspapers. I talk a lot about SEO, Great Tools to use on your site, and other such blather, so it seemed a bit inappropriate that my site looked so terrible. So, after a bit of work, I’ve begun the process of both [...]

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The Internet Model: How Magazines and Newspapers Need to Approach the Web

December 13, 2008

When blogs were first introduced, they were heralded as a new medium that had the potential to revolutionize news. Sure enough, they did. At the time, no one quite knew how to monetize blogs, but since the introduction of various advertising services such as google adsense and newegg that problem has been solved. Since the [...]

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Monetizing Your Magazine

December 8, 2008

Today was a big day in publishing. It looks like the Chicago Tribune is going bankrupt, and the Miami Herald was put on the auction block by cash-starved McClatchy. What does failing conglomerates mean? Opportunity! The problem with printing is that they are stuck in a model. For years, newspapers focused on Classified ads to [...]

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Should I Defrag At This Volume?

December 5, 2008

A computer at my work began running really slowly today. So, first things first, I attempted to defrag it. Here’s what I found:

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The Brown Spectator Wins Award

November 27, 2008

The Brown Spectator has won the Website Design and Content Award from the Collegiate Network. The website beat out 109 other school’s sites.

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Drupal vs. WordPress For Magazines

November 26, 2008

So this is the age old debate. A lot of magazine developers use iJoomla. And, frankly, I think that iJoomla is both clunky and it’s learning curve is huge. So, Joomla sites are good, but only when the developer and the end user are the same person. Even so, as far as Joomla goes, because [...]

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My Own Theme Sucks

November 14, 2008

So I developed a new magazine theme recently, based on the New Yorker’s site. The problem: the site is terrible in terms of SEO. So now, I’m back to my site’s old design. Ugly, but effective. I will get to fixing Black Widow one of these days, but for now, it’s just not ready. Durn!

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A Beautiful Tool for Displaying Online Magazine ISSUUS

October 2, 2008

You know how it is, you have a print magazine, and then you have a website. And if your print magazine is basically free, it behooves you to put up the pdfs online. But pdfs are big, and, thus, are expensive to load from your server. So there is a new solution in town: Issuu. [...]

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