Monthly Archives: January 2009

Favourite plugins 1: All In One SEO Pack

There are a huge range of SEO plugins for Wordpress, but I like this one as it focuses on the things I believe to be important in SEO, and ignores the rest.  Most Wordpress themes are designed with SEO in mind, and certainly Wordpress, with it’s pings, linking structure, text focused content and customised URL structure [...]
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DMOZ editors for hire?

Shock!! horror!! Is nothing in this world sacred any more?  After a week of discussions in forums and on blogs about the value of a DMOZ listing for your website’s Page Rank, I’d kind of given up on getting Gite Guru listed in this mystical directory.  For those of you in the dark about DMOZ, it’s ‘the [...]
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Favourite Wordpress plugins

I only found out this morning that yesterday (28th Jan) was Thank A Plugin Developer Day over at Wordpress, the idea being a day focused on given thanks and financial support to the thousands of Wordpress plugin developers. Well I missed it, so I feel the need to make amends. When I design a website for a [...]
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Editing and optimising images

I’m a website designer for holiday rental property owners, and one of the questions that crops up all the time is image size and quality.  Whereas the majority of UK households are now on broadband, many around the world are not, and indeed, the definition of broadband is pretty loose. As I write, I’m on a [...]
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