Quite often I give people the advice to change their WordPress permalink structure, this post details the why and, more importantly: how to make such a change without losing the traffic that you already have. It includes a new tool built by yours truly to help you create the necessary redirects. Keep on reading! via [...] Read more – ‘Redirect tool for changed permalink situations’.
In January 2012, new Internet real estate will be introduced to allow for domain names to shift beyond the traditional .com to .anything. This dramatic shift will enable businesses, entrepreneurs and governments to apply for and acquire their own Top-Level Domain similar to .com, .net or .org. Known as the new Top-Level Domain Program, and [...] Read more – ‘New top-level domains’.
If you’ve set up your website so it’s easy for both customers and search engines to read but are still not happy with your search ranking, you might want to consider paying for advertising online. These days, the most common form of online advertising is known as pay per click (PPC) advertising. With pay per [...] Read more – ‘Pay Per Click advertising’.
My focus is on simplifying all this technology to something easy to grasp and use for a person of average technical prowess. Complex concepts, methods and terminology are reduced to their basic forms. The too often technological self-importance is brought back to it’s fundamental positive and constructive reason for existing – to be useful tools [...] Read more – ‘Stripping technology back to it’s fundamental reason for existing’.
I found this article covers most questions about security. This is an introduction to the many threats that computer systems and users face on the internet. Methods that users can implement to protect themselves are also explored. Article by Kevin Rio. via Internet Security Threats And Protection Methods | Krio Media. Read more – ‘Internet Security Threats And Protection Methods | Krio Media’.
Vision: To be a health care provider delivering exceptional performance in provision of health care services. Features Staff and board member area. Multiple blog template design to accommodate many sub-organisations within the health precinct. Document manager. Complete documentation. Technical: HTML5, CSS3, Loud Mountain web hosting, PayPal donations, member permissions control. Read more – ‘South Gippsland Hospital’.
In this selection, we’re pleased to present Homestead, Bree Serif, Levanderia, Valencia, Nomed Font, Carton and other quality fonts. Please note that while most fonts are available for commercial projects, some are for personal use only and are clearly marked as such in their descriptions. Also, please read the licensing agreements carefully before using the [...] Read more – ‘New High-Quality Free Fonts (2012 Edition)’.
The heading structure of your pages is one of the very important aspects of on-page SEO. It defines which parts of your content are important, and how they’re interconnected. Because they have different goals, a single post needs another heading structure than your blog’s homepage or your category archives. This post intends to give you [...] Read more – ‘HTML heading structure & your blog’s SEO’.
If youre in the camp of integrating SEO functionality into your theme, youve got yet another choice to make: do you “yield” for site owners that have an SEO plugin installed, disabling your own SEO functionality or do you deny them that choice. For those who do decide to yield and for those who do [...] Read more – ‘WordPress SEO Plugin Theme Integration Guide’.
One of the most fundamental requirements at planning stage of a website, is it’s structure in terms of URL’s. WordPress gives you many options to control that. This article from Yoast is particularly relevant to the newest version WP3.3 How to change your WordPress Permalink Structure • Yoast. Read more – ‘Changing your WordPress Permalink Structure’.
Made popular by the International Typographic Style movement and pioneered by legends like Josef Müller-Brockmann and Wim Crouwel, the grid is the foundation of any solid design. The Grid System is an ever-growing resource where graphic designers can learn about grid systems, the golden ratio and baseline grids. The Grid System Read more – ‘The Grid System website’.
The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration we’ve added significant [...] Read more – ‘WordPress releases version 3.3 “Sonny”’.
Search Engine Optimisation can be the ethical way or ‘spammy’ way. Even large corporations often don’t care, as long as they get their rankings up: Over the last few months, I’ve seen GoDaddy rise up in the rankings for a lot of hosting related terms. At first I suspected they were finally using their very [...] Read more – ‘GoDaddy’s spammy link building techniques • Yoast’.
Information Finalist at the ANZIA internet awards 2011!
Instead of printing old fashioned brochures to raise greater awareness of the town and local businesses, the Foster Chamber decided instead to commission Loud Mountain to create and maintain a website. Unlike a paper brochure, it's an ongoing and dynamic form of promotion, a community asset and of course much more environmentally friendly.
Features include: Business listings, events calendar, classified ads, users can upload content/business listing info etc, community noticeboard, latest posts, featured posts/listings are highlighted, Google Adsense ads management, blog facility for organisations, full CMS administration documentation.
Technical setup:
HTML5, CSS2, Loud Mountain web hosting, @fontface fonts, 2 x custom post types, search engine optimised. Read more – ‘Foster Community Online’.
via chartsbin.com Pando Networks, a company specializing in delivering large quantities of online information to other companies, has released its most recent Global Internet Speed Study, which ranks 224 countries on their internet speed and download completion rate. The findings are based on the data from 27 million downloads by 20 million computers between January [...] Read more – ‘Top 15 Countries with the Fastest Internet’.
“I study the effects of the internet on society. I’ve written two recent books on the subject: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008) and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (2010).” via Clay Shirky’s Internet Writings. Read more – ‘Clay Shirky’s Internet Writings’.
The Foster and District Historical Society (previously the South Gippsland Historical Society) was formed on 3 August 1973. A website was required that could expand in scope to accommodate growing research and museum information requirements. We operate a volunteer-run museum situated in the Main Street of Foster, Victoria. See how the district developed from the [...] Read more – ‘Prom Country History’.
Alignment diagrams reveal the touchpoints between a customer and a business. Illustrating these helps a company shift its inward-focusing perspectives outward. Alignment diagrams make the value creation chain visible. visit: Alignment Diagrams – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design. Read more – ‘Alignment Diagrams’.
Here’s the problem: organizations are the context for our work, and when it comes to the web, organizations are broken. via A List Apart: Articles: Web Governance: Becoming an Agent of Change. Read more – ‘Web Governance: Becoming an Agent of Change’.
Since “Part 1” was published, content strategy has gained a lot of ground in the business world. However, justifying budgets and resources for content projects is still a major challenge. So, here, at long last, are seven tips to help you measure content effectively… via The Value of Content, Part 2: Nobody’s Perfect « Brain Traffic [...] Read more – ‘The Value of Content, Part 2: Nobody’s Perfect’.
WordPress is, perhaps, the most prolific Content Management System of all time and it’s always amazing to see how much it continues to grow year over year. According to recent metrics, WordPress powers an amazing 14.7% of the top million websites in the world.In this ‘State of the Word’ address, Matt Mullenweg talks about this, and [...] Read more – ‘The Incredible Growth of WordPress | CMS Critic’.
Although we’re comfortable with the idea that the web is critical to organizations, we often miss the corollary: the web has changed the way organizations operate, and in many cases it’s changed their business models, too. When executives can’t see that, it causes a crisis. Welcome to your daily web-making reality. A List Apart: Articles: [...] Read more – ‘Daily web-making reality’.
Print Friendly Browser Tool Add the Print Friendly bookmarklet to your browser, and make any webpage Printer Friendly. It’s free & easy to install. http://www.printfriendly.com/browser_tool Read more – ‘Print Friendly & PDF’.
I’m wondering whether the following misconception is too common and what is possibly slowing business response to listing on Foster Community Online. I had a phone conversation on Wednesday with a business who wanted a listing but didn’t want to give us their email address for fear of spam. I wanted to reply “why have an [...] Read more – ‘Open letter to our local Community’.
We work with some of the most socially and psychologically damaged children in our society, we also work with children who are disadvantaged in other ways – children with learning and language difficulties, children with a disability, children with mental health issues or young people whose future job prospects are very limited. CEO – Tony [...] Read more – ‘OzChild – Australian Child Care’.
Sometimes a client comes along with such a fun product to sell it feels like playing instead of work. Our client needed a fun and accessible website to promote and sell his product and I stepped up to the mark with some fun looking creatures. Not to mention a slick website that has increased sales [...] Read more – ‘Magiclay’.
