Wow

Posted on May 15, 2013 by admin — No Comments ↓

Apples application servers must be very busy, 49 million and counting.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/50-billion-app-countdown/

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WordPress vs. Joomla: Which Is Best For Your Business?

Posted on May 8, 2013 by admin — No Comments ↓

Joomla vs. WordPress

I know how I feel, but perhaps I should try Joomla! Read on

WordPress vs. Joomla: Which Is Best For Your Business?
Written by Janice Gentles-Jones

If you are a business owner, you have probably heard that without a website, your business is virtually dead in the water. The trouble is, if you are like most business owners, you are also wary of the cost of setting up and maintaining a website.Eventually, if you research how to create and maintain a business website relatively cheaply, you will ‘discover’ CMS, or Content Management Systems.Two of the biggest, and most popular CMS on the market right now are Joomla, and WordPress, and in this article, we put them head to head, to determine which one is better for your business.What Are They?

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Adobe code signing infrastructure hacked by sophisticated threat actors | ZDNet

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Tim

Adobe code signing infrastructure hacked by sophisticated threat actorsSummary: The eyebrow-raising hack effectively gave the attackers the ability to create malware masquerading as legitimate Adobe software and signals a raising of the stakes in the world of Advanced Persistent Threats APTs.By Ryan Naraine for Zero Day | September 27, 2012 — 21:42 GMT 14:42 PDTAdobe today warned that an internal server with access to its digital certificate code signing infrastructure was hacked by “sophisticated threat actors” engaged in “highly targeted attacks.”

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Tagged with: Adobe attack, libeay32.dll, Malware, pwdump7 v7.1, Virus
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WordPress update

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Tim — No Comments ↓

There’s a new version of WordPress 3.3.1. When you’re the
administrator of a WordPress installation, the server sends out emails to
let you know that a newer version is available. It really makes it easy
to keep your Blog running smoothly and to keep the security up to
date. That way you can relax on the beach and forget your problems.

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Is WordPress a good CMS (Content Management System)

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Tim — No Comments ↓

A possible new client recently contacted me asking if WordPress is a good
Content Management System

To address the question would be to analyse how well WordPress fulfills the criteria. Here is a list of reasons why I think WordPress is a great CMS.

WordPress manages a collaborative environment by allowing multiple users with various administrator applied roles for members of the Blog or Static Website.
WordPress also enhances collaboration by integrating well with Social Media. Because WordPress is open source and free, you leverage the creative talents of thousands of geeky geniuses cooking up the next great way to enhance SEO/SMO .
WordPress allows drag and drop customization of menu’s and Sidebar Widgets.
Although WordPress comes with a great built-in page editor (Tiny MCE), I’ve used includes on several of my websites. Each page is empty except for a small snippet of code that references a text file. For instance if I want to do global edits the I simply load all the pages (some times 60 to 80 files) in NoteTab and I can edit the entire site in a few seconds. Then I finish by loading the new files with FTP.
WordPress allows unique templates for each page or post so that the site has a dynamic layout structure. Templates are created by the coder to allow various arrangements of page components such as custom side bars and custom footers. One of my websites has over ten different sidebars to choose from. This allows me to have sidebar widgets and menus that are proper for the page content.
A content management system (CMS) is a system providing a rich collection of tools used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures are manual or computer-based. The workflow accomplishes the following:via Content management system – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Now that you know what CMS are, I will redirect you again. This time its an article on WordPress as a CMS.

1. Website examples of word of WordPress being used as a CMS

As many of you probably know as well as being used as a blog WordPress can also be used as a CMS or if you didn’t know here are a few examples of sites that use it. (Found via http://www.codex.wordpress.org). Click on any example to go to the sites.

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Tagged with: Plug-in, Website Design, WordPress Calgary Business, Wordpress Website Development
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Mandelbox… infinite complexity

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Tim — No Comments ↓

Just an interesting image for today….

Area :: Blogs :: Mandel-Maya Madness!

Speeding Up Your Real Estate Website: Google will LIKE you

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Tim — No Comments ↓

Thumbs up to speedy pages. The Google threshold for fast it 1500 milliseconds or 1.5 seconds.

To do this with WordPress there are a few things you should pay attention to.

choose your theme wisely
choose your plug-ins wisely
test both
choose your hosting provider wisely

Of course speed is not the only on-site factor that may affect your SERP’s. Keep in mind that duplicate titles, duplicate META descriptions, too many links per page, keyword stuffing as well as a slew of other factors may affect your results.

I’m including some graphs to show how having an experienced SEO and Website consultant can have a positive effect on your on-line marketing efforts.

Modifications to your Real Estate Website can have a dramatic effect. This represents our visitors per day over the last few months.

Googlebot activity in the last 90 days

Please note that for the above graphic our average page load time is 1,458 milliseconds and our site is averaging 1/4 Gigabyte per day of data downloaded from Googlebot. Obviously Google is very interested in our site. Keep in mind your hosting provider should provide adequate bandwidth to you account otherwise your page load speed will suffer and so will your Search Engine referrals.

For more on page speed I will refer you to the article below.

Website speed has always been a big issue, and it has become even more important since April 2010, when Google decided to use it in search rankings. However, the focus of the discussion is generally on minimizing file sizes, improving server settings and optimizing CSS and JavaScript.

The discussion glosses over another important factor: the speed with which your pages are actually put together on your server. Most big modern websites store their information in a database and use a language such as PHP or ASP to extract it, turn it into HTML and send it to the Web browser.

So, even if you get your home page down to 1.5 seconds (Google’s threshold for being considered a “fast” website), you can still frustrate customers if your search page takes too much time to respond, or if the product pages load quickly but the “Customer reviews” delay for several seconds.

via Speeding Up Your Website’s Database – Smashing Coding | Smashing Coding.