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Using tags to display stuff in the WordPress loop

May 11, 2008

I spent the better part of today trying to manipulate the archive.php page on the Mimbo theme. Nowhere on the internet was I able to find how to integrate tags into your post. If you use the following code on your website, you can build a loop that utilizes the tag that is clicked on [...]

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Are Google Analytic’s Bounce Rate Accurate?

May 10, 2008

I’ve been reading on how to better utilize Google Analytics to improve your website’s performance. I’ll post some of the really great youtube videos that I found later. But, I have found some great articles, including Bounce Rate: Sexiest Web Metric Ever?, which explains how important a metric bounce rate is. The best definition of [...]

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Some really easy SEO that you maybe didn’t even know

May 7, 2008

I’m on a kick, I know. I am really trying to figure this SEO stuff out. I think it’s important. And as a website designer, it’s probably one of the most important service I can offer my clients. So today, I was looking for some really basic SEO stuff. I found it at one of [...]

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The HTML on the Google homepage is invalid

May 6, 2008

I just ran the w3c validator to crawl google’s homepage. I was surprised to find 66 errors. It makes me wonder how important this valid XHTML stuff really is. I’ve found a lot of controversy on the issue. And I’m not really sure of the answer. All I know is that Google seems not to [...]

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Validating XHTML

May 6, 2008

The last couple days I’ve been reading a lot about Search Engine Optimization. Apparently it’s really important (just kidding, i know it’s important). I just began working on optimizing one of my sites. Over the next few weeks I’ll be watching traffic, and I’ll let you know whether my SEO attempts helped increase visits. Anyhow, [...]

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Where WordPress Falls Short

May 5, 2008

Issue and Volume Management While WordPress has quickly become my favorite platform for building almost any webpage (so simple even my stupid brother could use it), it isn’t perfect by any means. When it comes to magazines, one of the biggest problems with WordPress is that there is no Issue and Volume management. iJoomla has [...]

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Just a Heads Up

May 1, 2008

In the next few weeks, I’m going to be putting up SpiderMarket’s bare essential WordPress plugins for running a magazine site. Below is my initial list of plugins. I’d love your recommendations, if you have other ideas. StatPress (or some other WordPress Statistic Plugin) Google XML Sitemaps CG-FlashyTitles (if you know of a less clunky [...]

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loop generator beta

April 30, 2008

I wrote a WordPress loop generator to expedite my own site building process. So far, I have only been able to incorporate the standard loop option into WordPress. I will be adding to this as I go, making it evermore complex. FIRST, PICK THE TYPE OF LOOP YOU WANT: – Select – Standard Loop Display [...]

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The Incubator

April 28, 2008

Postable: an AJAX utility that turns your HTML code into displayable text Essential WordPress Plugins for running a magazine Some really useful SEO tools Customizing tabs and other junk Java Sun Tabbed Pane Tutorial Tabber

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Mimbo for bimbos: Making Mimbo do what you need

April 27, 2008

Mimbo is a great magazine theme. It is easy to manipulate, the CSS is clearly written, and there are so many uses for it. For an example of a site that uses the Mimbo theme, look at The Brown Spectator. The Spectator has modified the Mimbo theme to fit its own needs, which is skill [...]

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