Archive for November, 2008

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Improving WordPress’ the_excerpt() template tag

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Are you having trouble with your excerpts? Is WordPress misbehaving and making your theme look downright shoddy when all you want to do is use it’s native excerpt function? You’re not alone so read on.

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Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Epuron advert: will make you smile

Every once in a while I come across something that just makes me smile. Today, courtesy of Ad Goodness, it comes in the form of an advertisement for the German energy firm, Epuron.

I don’t want to give anything away, so just watch it… and then watch it again.

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Monday, 10 November 2008

Is search engine optimisation unnecessary?

Is SEO a waste of money?

How does your site fare in the search engines? Have you ever thought of hiring a search engine ‘expert’ to improve your site’s search engine positioning?

Friend of mine, web designer-developer, SEO consultant and all-round good guy, Eggman John (who from now we’ll just call John) recently posted an article outlining seven reasons why you don’t need SEO. John’s article caused a bit of a stir amongst the SEO community, but there is a lot of sense in what he says.

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