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Open source search engines every developer should know about.
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2011/05/29/open-source-search-engines/Search is a crucial feature of any website. Even if your navigation is crystal clear, it still doesn’t cater for those power users and return visitors that remembered a particular piece of content, or want to find collections of information stored on your site in the same topical areas. Typically search is one of the most poorly implemented pieces of technology on a site, with developers opting for the standard the out of the box solution which comes with most modern content management systems – and in many cases doesn’t do justice to your content. I thought I’d take a look at what other enterprise level and open source search engines out there to find and index the information on your site faster, and provide users with a deeper, more relevant resultset.
Tags: search, opensource, software, tools, searchengine, free, google, webdesign, resources, business Saved by: admin
9 of the best Rich Text editors reviewed
Everytime I start a new web application, I keep wondering what rich text editor Im going to use, and hunting around the web wondering which one meets my needs only wastes time, so here preserved for eternity is a list of the best of the best, if not for anything else, for my own sanity.
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2008/03/09/9-of-the-best-rich-text-editors-reviewed
Tags: xhtml, wysiwyg, text, rich, text, editor, rich, editor Saved by: admin
Everytime I start a new web application, I keep wondering what rich text editor Im going to use, and hunting around the web wondering which one meets my needs only wastes time, so here preserved for eternity is a list of the best of the best, if not for anything else, for my own sanity.
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2008/03/09/9-of-the-best-rich-text-editors-reviewed
Tags: xhtml, wysiwyg, text, rich, text, editor, rich, editor Saved by: admin
13 free CMS options for Web Design Professionals Reviewed
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2008/05/17/13-free-cms-options-for-web-design-professionals
Tags: system, php, opensource, open, management, free, content, cms, asp Saved by: admin
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2008/05/17/13-free-cms-options-for-web-design-professionals
Tags: system, php, opensource, open, management, free, content, cms, asp Saved by: admin
25 things I wish I’d known when I started blogging
Next month will be a milestone for me - I’ve been blogging now for around two years, and over that time I have to say I’ve learned a bucket load about how content works online, and indeed how content marketing can drive traffic to a website. I’ve watched my own site grow, and enjoyed every second of it, obsessing over the minute details of traffic peaks and troughs, and analysed the traffic and the impact of social media - in a variety of different ways. This post summarises what I feel I’ve learned in those years and how you can apply the things I’ve learned to your own site and strategy to succeed.
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2009/10/19/25-things-i-wish-id-known-when-i-started-blogging/
Tags: blogging, blog, tips, business, seo, webdesign, best, howto, practices, blogger Saved by: admin
Next month will be a milestone for me - I’ve been blogging now for around two years, and over that time I have to say I’ve learned a bucket load about how content works online, and indeed how content marketing can drive traffic to a website. I’ve watched my own site grow, and enjoyed every second of it, obsessing over the minute details of traffic peaks and troughs, and analysed the traffic and the impact of social media - in a variety of different ways. This post summarises what I feel I’ve learned in those years and how you can apply the things I’ve learned to your own site and strategy to succeed.
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2009/10/19/25-things-i-wish-id-known-when-i-started-blogging/
Tags: blogging, blog, tips, business, seo, webdesign, best, howto, practices, blogger Saved by: admin
60+ .NET libraries every developer should know about.
Every good developer knows never to re-invent the wheel, especially if there is software out there that has been tested by others, and has an established track record. As a developer using the .NET framework I’ve found some of these libraries invaluable, so I’m sharing them for some of the other dev’s out there with a brief outline of how to use. Yedda Twitter Library. URL: http://devblog.yedda.com/index.php/twitter-c-library/ I’ve used this on a number of very simple twitter projects, where I’ve just needed to send an update. As the site says its more of a wrapper for the Twitter API than an actual library, but none the less its an easy way to integrate with the service via a drop in dll. Here’s how to use it. 1. Dim objYedda As New Yedda.Twitter 2. Dim status as String 3. Dim strTwitterUser as String = “username” 4. Dim strTwitterPassword as String = “password” 5. status = “Hello World” 6. objYedda.Update(strTwitterUser, strTwitterPassword, strStatus, Yedda.Twitt
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2010/02/16/60-net-libraries-every-developer-should-know-about/
Tags: .net, programming, c#, libraries, library, development, opensource, framework, utilities, tools Saved by: admin
Every good developer knows never to re-invent the wheel, especially if there is software out there that has been tested by others, and has an established track record. As a developer using the .NET framework I’ve found some of these libraries invaluable, so I’m sharing them for some of the other dev’s out there with a brief outline of how to use. Yedda Twitter Library. URL: http://devblog.yedda.com/index.php/twitter-c-library/ I’ve used this on a number of very simple twitter projects, where I’ve just needed to send an update. As the site says its more of a wrapper for the Twitter API than an actual library, but none the less its an easy way to integrate with the service via a drop in dll. Here’s how to use it. 1. Dim objYedda As New Yedda.Twitter 2. Dim status as String 3. Dim strTwitterUser as String = “username” 4. Dim strTwitterPassword as String = “password” 5. status = “Hello World” 6. objYedda.Update(strTwitterUser, strTwitterPassword, strStatus, Yedda.Twitt
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2010/02/16/60-net-libraries-every-developer-should-know-about/
Tags: .net, programming, c#, libraries, library, development, opensource, framework, utilities, tools Saved by: admin
7 FBML examples to rock your Facebook fan page.
Facebook markup language or FBML for short is used in a variety of places within the social network. Anyone who has written any Facebook applications will already be pretty familiar with its tags, and will probably have used it to write data to walls, or share postings with others programmatically. If however you haven’t yet dipped your toe in the water of the Facebook API, or indeed haven’t actually needed to – there are some snippets of FBML which prove to be mighty useful when creating custom Facebook Fan Pages, and can easily and quickly out of the box be used with the FBML widget, which adds an extra much needed layer of customisation to an existing Facebook fan page. The static FBML widget can be added multiple times, and in multiple places (sidebar and tabs) to facilitate this. Once you’ve added it to your page, simply go to “edit page”, then under Applications click “edit” under Static FBML. This will give you the options you need to paste in your code.
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2010/03/22/7-fbml-examples-to-rock-your-facebook-fan-page/comment-page-1/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_term&utm_campaign=manual+repeats&utm_content
Tags: facebook, fbml, socialmedia, tips, page, socialnetworking, code, online, fanpage, fan Saved by: admin
Facebook markup language or FBML for short is used in a variety of places within the social network. Anyone who has written any Facebook applications will already be pretty familiar with its tags, and will probably have used it to write data to walls, or share postings with others programmatically. If however you haven’t yet dipped your toe in the water of the Facebook API, or indeed haven’t actually needed to – there are some snippets of FBML which prove to be mighty useful when creating custom Facebook Fan Pages, and can easily and quickly out of the box be used with the FBML widget, which adds an extra much needed layer of customisation to an existing Facebook fan page. The static FBML widget can be added multiple times, and in multiple places (sidebar and tabs) to facilitate this. Once you’ve added it to your page, simply go to “edit page”, then under Applications click “edit” under Static FBML. This will give you the options you need to paste in your code.
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2010/03/22/7-fbml-examples-to-rock-your-facebook-fan-page/comment-page-1/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_term&utm_campaign=manual+repeats&utm_content
Tags: facebook, fbml, socialmedia, tips, page, socialnetworking, code, online, fanpage, fan Saved by: admin