Website Development
Product Feeds Save Your Precious Time
A former colleague unintentionally taught me a valuable lesson about managing the content on a site. He runs a successful Yahoo-based store which probably offers over a thousand products. That store sucks up his entire day because he must manually update the product offerings. Apparently, getting an automated process in place to move the inventory [...]
Matching Colors for Google AdSense
We recently signed up for a Google AdSense account (make sure you read the terms of service carefully so you don’t get banned). Deciding on the number, type, and placement of ads is more difficult than I thought. One thing I have figured out how to do is easily change the color scheme. Mac OS [...]
Checklist for New WordPress Sites
After installing WordPress as our blogging and content management system twice now, I have a few tips for new WordPress sites using shared hosting and addon domains. Setup the addon domain. This could include purchasing a domain name, changing the name servers with your domain registrar, and creating the addon domain with your web host. [...]
robots.txt
I recently created a robots.txt file for this site and the yet-to-be-launched Niche Site 1. Graywolf’s video is a nice primer on the problem of search engines crawling your blog, finding too much duplicate content, and lowering your PR. He’s a fan of WordPress and specifically made the video for it. There are a few [...]
WordPress Plugins
I’m seeing more and more that using blogging software like WordPress to create and manage certain types of websites is a great idea. It isn’t right for a 10,000 page ecommerce site of course but rapidly putting up a niche information site as a blog works quite well. Especially if a few plugins are used. [...]
