Google Alerts now available in RSS
Google Alerts is now available through an RSS feed instead of having to come through email. If you’re not already using Google Alerts to keep track of news for your sites, now may be a good time to start.
Google at 10
About a week ago Google celebrated it’s 10th birthday. It’s amazing in a world where websites come and go on a seemingly weekly basis to see one that’s around that long. Screenshot of Google from 1997 They have put up a page that allows you to search their index from 2001 so you can play [...]
How important is design to the success of a forum?
How important do you think design is to the success of a forum? It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums. Content or design? Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum? I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a [...]
BluDomain and difficulty getting indexed by Google
One of the photography forums I spend a lot of time on has a web site board where I tend to camp out. A good percentage of the photographers are using Flash template sites like BluDomain, FlashPalette, or PortfolioSitez which are nice, relatively inexpensive, and fairly easy to setup. BluDomain goes a step farther with [...]
GoCodes redirection plugin
Have you ever needed to give out a URI from a blog post? Sure, you can do it, but the URIs are usually pretty long. And forget about it if you’re saying it over the phone or on a podcast. A WordPress plugin called GoCodes looks like it may be able to help you out.