Tag: Content Management System

Search Engine Optimization For Blogs

Posted on Jul.15, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Blogging software is really a simple Content Management System (CMS) that easily adds new pages and integrates them into your site’s navigational structure and linkage.
Blogs and blog posts are naturally search engine friendly because they are text-rich, link-rich, frequently-updated webpages that use stylesheets or CSS, and have very little extraneous HTML.
Optimizing a blog is very similar to optimizing a website, and optimizing a blog post similar to optimizing a web page.
But depending on the blogging service or software you use, [...]


Fresh Content Improves Search Engine Optimization

Posted on Jul.13, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Many search engine optimization companies will sell you a search engine optimization package that addresses many of the major aspects of search engine optimization. These aspects include, but are not limited to, use of file names, alt tags, h1 tags, keyphrase density, meta tag optimization, link analysis and the like. These are all key aspects of a good search optimization.
However, one problem is that the major search engines (especially Google) not only rank pages upon relevant content (which is determined [...]


Search Engine Marketing (SEM) – Houses on Sand

Posted on Jul.04, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Do you depend on free search engine traffic for your livelihood?
I admit it. I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), keyword density, keyword relevance, KEI, incoming links and link text, and where my web site and web pages rank in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) for my targeted keyword phrases.
This afternoon I had a shock. I discovered my main web site was dropped from Yahoo! Not one page could [...]


How to Make More Money with Your Mambo 4.5.1 Site

Posted on Jun.13, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

For those of you who are not familiar with Mambo – it is an easy to use content management system that can be freely downloaded from http://www.mamboserver.com (You have to be familiar with php, ftp, mysql databses and such to be able to use it though!) It has loads of add-ons, modules, and templates that are available free for download. Because of the fact that it basically creates pages on the “fly” also loads very quickly and we all [...]


Review of TikiWiki Content Management System

Posted on Jun.07, 2009, under Computer and PC Tips No Comments

TikiWiki is open source software – it is written in PHP, uses phpAdmin for mySQL database administration, and uses the Smarty Template Engine.
Installation – Since our host installed the TikiWiki, I cannot comment on ease of installation.
While TikiWiki has many features, only the features used on the Spotlight on Lake website will be reviewed.
Administration – It is hard to determine what some features are and do, such as the Ephemerides feature. Documentation is sadly lacking! The most complete documentation is [...]


PHP On-The-Fly!

Posted on May.30, 2009, under Computer and PC Tips No Comments

Introduction
PHP can be used for a lot of different things, and is one of the most powerful scripting languages available on the web. Not to mention it’s extremely cheap and widely used. However, one thing that PHP is lacking, and in fact most scripting languages are, is a way to update pages in real-time, without having to reload a page or submit a form.
The internet wasn’t made for this. The web browser closes the connection with the web server as [...]


The Future Of Web Design Is Content Management!

Posted on Apr.18, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

The Future Of Web Design Is Content Management!
By: Martin Lemieux
Web development has greatly increased in popularity over the last 5 years. Many new design concepts, code standards, and technology advances have happened in a short amount of time. With that, so has the knowledge and demand for better, more independent and functional web design packages.
More and more we are starting to see a shift in consumer demand for the increasingly popular website content management system.
Most website owner’s are typical business [...]


The Wonders of Content Management Systems

Posted on Apr.17, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

As you get serious about your web site, your time will become invaluable. A content management system is the best way to maximize your efforts.
What A Content Management System Does for You
A good CMS system will allow you to update can entire site by making a change one time in the admin that can carry over to all pages of your site. This means you can change the menu, side bar, page bottom, site design, or other sections of your [...]


Updating Your Web Site Efficiently

Posted on Apr.17, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Many new webmasters, and even seasoned web designers, create web sites that are very inefficient in regard to updates. Updating your site keeps visitors coming back day in and day out, while at the same time giving search engines plenty to index. Yet if the task of updating your web site is not an efficient one, hundreds and thousands of hours can be lost. Using simple solutions, such as content management systems, the efficiency of updating a web site can [...]


Web Design Using a CMS

Posted on Apr.15, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

A Content Management System could be best described as integrating elements of a web site such as design, content, media and database into one easy to use package. The System is normally controlled by using a web interface (a form) which will capture the data and store it in a database according to its attributes (title, category keywords, description etc.). Some of the better ones out there are Mambo / Joomla, and because its open source there is a large [...]