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Airline Weather Drama: Handling Emergency Announcements on Your Site
Our reliance and dependence upon the Internet is clearly growing, as evidenced by recent weather dramas around the world. In England, British Airways website “crashed and burned” as passengers got...
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Creating Custom Feeds For Sites Without Feeds
Whiiiiiiinnnnneee! Why don’t more websites and blogs have feeds? Don’t you know what a feed is yet? Feeds are wonderful things. They allow us to keep up with the Joneses through our feed readers,...
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Is Your Site Ready for the New Mobile Internet?
By Douglas Bell Now before you start getting any ideas in your head about those baby cell phone web browsers and WML (Wireless Markup Language), just stop right there. This article is talking about the...
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Developing a Tourist Community Site With WordPress
How would you like to hand-hold a web developer as he creates a WordPress-based Tourist Community Site? Amir Helzer of ICanLocalize recently decided to create such a site for his small tourist town of...
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Prove It: What Makes You Trust a Website?
What makes you trust this site? What makes you trust me? What makes you trust any website you visit? What is it about the site that earns your trust? I’ve asked this question at most of the conferences...
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Submitting Your Sitemap and Feeds to Google Blog Search and Site Submission
Whether you are using the full version of WordPress or WordPressMU on wordpress.com or one of the other WordPressMU -driven sites, you may want to take advantage of the new Google Blogsearch by...
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Google Sitemaps Goes Standard With Acceptance By Microsoft and Yahoo!
The Google Blog announces the sitemap protocol has now been accepted by Yahoo! and Microsoft as a standard for webmasters to assist with website crawling and “submissions”. Last year we published the...
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SEO Sitemaps Now Autodiscoverable: Easy and Automatic Roadmaps to Your Blog...
In case you missed the news, Google’s Webmaster Central announced that in accordance with the new Sitemap.org, you do not have to submit your XML sitemap to Google or other search engines any more....
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Site Map
Site Directory Feeds Full Site Feed WordPress News Category Feed WordPress Tips Category Feed Blog Babble Category Feed Web Wise Category Feed Comments Only TechCrunch: Review of Online, Web-based Feed...
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The Art of a Good Site Map
I’m a fanatic about a good site map, even though the one on this blog is manually created, a serious pain in the…everything… and way past due updating because it is manually created. I was thrilled...
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Blog Exercises: Own Your Site and Protect Yourself
I hear it every day. A webmaster, developer, or designer does the site owner wrong and the site owner is victimized, helpless, and frustrated with what to do next. I’ve gotten calls in the middle of...
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Blog Exercises: Where is Your Audience?
In this ongoing series, Blog Exercises, you’ve been exploring your site stats to determine where your audience is coming from and why. Now is the time to explore the where. Using whichever as stats or...
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The Giant Blog Exercise Check List Part 1
July is the midway point of these Blog Exercises and time for a Giant Blog Exercise Checklist to help you keep score of the exercises you’ve done, and what’s left undone. I’ve arranged the blog...
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Blog Exercises: Organize Your Content – The Sequel
In the previous blog exercise, “Blog Exercises: Organize Your Content,” you were to create a giant lists of all the posts you have published in a link list organized by topic. If you have been blogging...
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Blog Exercises: What’s the View Through Your Binoculars
One of my favorite things is a framed picture by Matt Mullenweg of an old set of mounted binoculars. The eye pieces are worn and the blue paint on the metal binoculars looks like it’s not the first...
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Blog Exercises: Site Goals
Early on in these Blog Exercises I asked you to clarify what you do and how you share your purpose on your site, what your target audience is, and review the why of why you blog and self-publish on the...
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Blog Exercises: The Art of List Making
Today’s blog exercise is part two on how to make a list. In “Weekly Link Roundups” and “Making Lists” blog exercises I covered some basics of how to make a list. This blog exercise will take these...
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Blog Exercises: Patterns in the Stats
As we proceed through this year of blogging tips and exercises, we’ll talk more about statistics and web analytics to help you check in with yourself that you are on the right track. Today’s blog...
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Blog Exercises: The Domino Effect
I recently created a domino effect on one of my sites. The Domino Effect is based upon the traditional game of domino pieces stacked standing upright in rows, typically in a straight or curved path...
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Blog Exercises: Start Here Guides
Training for educators using online learning management systems for high schools and college recommend creating a “Start Here” page to guide the student through the process. If the process is...
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