Navigation on the Right

January 16, 2009

I’ve just been looking through a selection of 100 free WordPress themes and it would appear that for the most part navigation is now placed on the right – at least when running a site with WordPress. I found myself running through the list and discounting anything with this right-hand side navigation. This is probably [...]

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When The Newspapers Are Gone…

January 15, 2009

Seth Godin asks “When the newspapers are gone, what will you miss?” Personally I’ll miss having something to stuff my wet running shoes with. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adamchristie.co.uk%2Fgeneral%2Fwhen-the-newspapers-are-gone%2F’; addthis_title = ‘When+The+Newspapers+Are+Gone%26%238230%3B’; addthis_pub = ”;

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SEO Friendly WordPress URL’s on Namesco Zeus Servers

January 13, 2009

This blog was moved a while ago to a Namesco server and it has been an amazingly reliable service compared to the last one I had. Uptime has been 100% as far as I can tell, and the service is fast and easy to use. However, one thing that was bothering me was not being [...]

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RSS Feeds For Static Websites

December 1, 2008

It can sometimes be a bitter pill for static website owners to take when they see competitors who run blog or CMS websites getting indexed in Google in minutes and new pages on their static site can take weeks to show up in the index. They’ve tried the Google Sitemap option but just can’t get [...]

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Over 2K Pageviews For A 20 Minute Blog Post

October 24, 2008

This week I posted a stupid post here about things not to say to someone from Scotland. It was trivial, but I thought some people might like it at digg.com so I submitted it there. Yeah, stupid is as stupid does. 5 diggs was the hit rate and virtually no traffic. Yesterday morning I thought [...]

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Joomla 1.5 Homepage Title – Joomla SEO

October 15, 2008

I’ve seen a lot of Joomla 1.5 sites recently where the homepage title is simply “Home”. Obviously this isn’t an ideal situation and you generally want your homepage title to include your best search term for the site. It’s very easy to fix though: From your Joomla Admin Dashboard go to Menus > Main Menu [...]

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