Archive for April, 2009

Should the new DiggBar be blocked?

April 11th, 2009

Has anyone else been hearing the controversy over the new DiggBar? Digg has been one of the biggest names in blog and website listing sites for years. Most sites now have the share buttons or even a specific link to ‘Digg This’, allowing visitors to vote on a sitIf your article or site was ‘Dugg’ enough, it could result in a flood of traffic to your site. Recently, they unveiled a new DiggBar feature, which looks and sounds great. It provides a bar at the top of the browser allowing you to share content, ‘Digg’ the page your on, even …

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Categories: Articles, SEO.

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Should you use subdomains or subdirectories?

April 8th, 2009

I receieved an interesting question from one of my photographer friends Gustavo Fernandez today. “Why do some folk have their address as blog.domain.com vs domain.com/blog? Is there a benefit?”

I started to write back, but in doing a couple quick searches in the name of research, I found enough interesting information that I decided to write a post explaining it all.
Subdomains vs Subdirectories

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Creative Commons License photo credit: Tim Dorr

First, let’s …

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Categories: Hosting, SEO.

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Adding TinyMCE text editor to Project Pier

April 3rd, 2009

I have recently started using the open source project management app called Project Pier to organize and coordinate my website projects. It is similar to some of the popular hosted services like Basecamp, No Kahuna, or GoPlan with a couple major exceptions – it is FREE and you install and run it on your own server. I will be adding an entire page to the site soon to show how I use Project Pier to …

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Batchbook blogs about me!

April 2nd, 2009

So I have been using this web app called Batchbook CRM for almost two months now. They let you sort and tag all your contacts with a ton of great features that make keeping on top of your networking so much easier. I won’t go into all the details of how it works here, but one of the things that was holding me back from completely loving it was that they don’t let you send an email from directly within the app. They have ‘mailto’ links that open your email application. The problem for me is …

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Categories: Blog.

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