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One-Page Quick SEO Optimization
Today I had to make some updates to the Archdiocese of Saint Louis' Leadership page. While I was making the updates, I noticed a pattern on the page that was very ineffective in terms of giving proper keyword metadata to Google for page links.
For each leader in the Archdiocese, there was a link to "Read more..." at the end of the leader's description. Google and other spiders take that 'Read more' text and expect it to mean something, so they give a little weight (but not much) to...
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Artisteer - Templates/Themes made easy
Has anyone used Artisteer for template/theme creation? I'm using a demo and this looks really nice especailly for free project that I don't want to spend a whole lot of time having to tweak style sheets. Price is reasonable for the amount of time it will save me. Works for Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Blogger.
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Prayer Clock 0.0.7
I have upgraded the Prayer Clock with Divine Mercy Novena prayers, cause Easter is coming.
http://sites.google.com/site/allencch83/projects
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Designers These Days...
Excellent overview of what designers are now expected to do:
There are few fields where an employee must stretch in so many directions at once... it's actually very hard, imo, to specialize strongly in one area!
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Found: DISC (Diocesan Information Systems Conference)
After a few months, I am finally able to access the 'Diocesan Information Systems Conference' discussions online (it uses some sort of Lotus Notes system), and it's actually a pretty good resources for IT administrators. There are a lot of great discussions about social networking, network stacks, and information management.
If you work in an (Arch)Diocese, you should head over to the DISC site and request access.
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Drupal: Switching Content Types the Easy Way
One thing that I've had to do every now and then is switch a node between one content type (for instance, 'story'), and another (a new content type 'blog post').
I used to go into the database via PHPMyAdmin, and change the nodes in the node table, but that was getting quite tedious, and would take forever for a list of a hundred or thousands of nodes!
Instead, I wrote up a nice little script that you can paste directly into the 'Execute PHP' block provided by the excellent Devel...
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Please Stop Saying "Web 2.0"
...for the love of everything sacred and holy, do not use the term "Web 2.0" or say "we are joing the social media revolution."
We are not in some crazy new age of the web, nor are we in a revolution. The Internet is in a constant stage of evolution, and reorganization. There will never be a point at which the web will upgrade to 'Web 3.0,' or even 'Web 2.1.' So stop using that term!
The 'Web' is not a software product. It is a relatively new medium by...
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