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Very useful graphpaper types

Graph Paper | Konigi

Building with WordPress: From sketch to prototype to company website in 5 hours: Aptana, YahooUI CSS

Building with WordPress: From sketch to prototype to company website in 5 hours: Aptana, YahooUI CSS.

a simple workflow

6 Tips on Adding a Forum to Your Blog

6 Tips on Adding a Forum to Your Blog

These are less about the technical aspects and more about how to ‘work it, baby’. Good tips… here they are summarized:

  • Presell it
  • Start with Passionate Users
  • Find Leverage Points
  • Empower Key Users
  • Incentives
  • Fun/Community

You’ll have to go read the blog entry for details. (did you see what I did there?)

A List Apart: The Survey, 2008

A list apart 2008 survey

If you work in or wtih a technical industry, more specifically web related but even computer software in general, go to A List Apart and take their survey. There is no way to measure the scope and breadth of the industry and workforce without cooperative information gathering such as this, and A List Apart have been on the forefront of the web development movement for a long, respected time.

Do you part, and play along. you don’t have to give your name… if you do you earn the right to place this pretty badge on your website/blog:

WordPress and SEO go hand in hand

Wow it’s amazing what a little attention to SEO methods can do for your site.

I have been experimenting with the various techniques of building traffic, gaining rank, watching and tracking visitors and their travels to and from my site. With some very minimal effort I’ve made some decent gains. check out this chart (screen grab from ALEXA.

and a few days later

and a few more days

and yet another few days

If I can make it to rank# 2.5 million by year end I’ll be tickled purple.

.DAA file conversion for Mac OS X

If you’re like me and sometimes require dipping into the fetid whorls that are the Windows Desktop Experience, you may come across files that are of the file format ‘.daa’. The problem with these files is that this is a proprietary disk image format for PowerISO. Toast nor any other mac product at this time recognizes that format.

Well after searching for some time, hearing left and right how I would have to go back to a Windows box and convert them to something more universally useable, I stumbled across aptly named gem:

DAA Converter for OS X

from Twilight Edge Software. Check it. It’ll do ya good.




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