Monthly Archives: May 2010

Plugins

WordPress Plugin Settings : Contact Form 7, Google XML Sitemap, Automatic Blog, WP-O-Matic

(Full sized www.videos.bycenay.com) This video focuses on the how and why of some of the plugins recommended for the site. We cover not only the settings, but why to use certain plugins, what they do for you and how to get the most out of the installation. Plugins Covered In This Video * Google XML Sitemap * MBP Ping Optimizer * WP-DBManager * Automatic Blog * WP-O-Matic * Contact Form 7

Themes

SEO Features in SmallBiz WordPress Theme – Video

www.smallbiztheme.com – Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps small businesses get noticed when people are searching for local services in your area. This video shows an overview of SEO features in the Expand2Web SmallBiz WordPress Theme. I’ve worked with hundreds of small businesses to help them stand out in the search results for their local area. This experience is distilled in the SmallBiz Theme to help you achieve great rankings in the search results. In addition to the great SEO benefits of WordPress, the SmallBiz theme has several features built-in to help your business get noticed in the local search results including 1) Business Name, Address and Phone number (NAP) on every page of the site 2) Ability to set the HTML title, meta description and meta keywords for every page or post on your website 3) Ability to list nearby cities and neighborhoods served in your footer 4) hCard Microformats automatically embedded in all pages 5) Custom options panel that allows you to change your business information, SEO details, Google Analytics code and more without having to code Build your small business website on WordPress using the SmallBiz WordPress theme and you’ll have a solid foundation for great SEO!

Open Source

How do I start an open source GUI design project?

I want to initiate an open-source style project to design an advanced (animated) GUI for a new application. No initial commercial ambitions…just an ambition/curiosity of mine.

I would like to start with artists / graphic designers instead of coders because I really want to ‘think outside the box’ on the interface. (i.e. probably initially break all known GUI / windowing rules most coders know and love).

Most sites (like Sourceforge) seem oriented to coders rather than designers. I am not a designer myself, so I do not know where they hang out and where I could recruit some to the project.

A sourceforge for designers would be ideal, but I have a feeling it does not exist.

Any ideas on sites where I could start would be appreciated! I have beginner – intermediate knowledge on the open source concept itself, so anywhere I could do some more self-education on that would be great too.

Thanks in advance!

Wordpress

WordPress Tutorial – How to Upload & Link to a PDF, Microsoft Word doc, or other doc

This beginner-level WordPress tutorial is an update of the existing tutorial on mcbuzz.wordpress.com and YouTube called “WordPress Tutorial – How to Upload and Link to a PDF, Microsoft Word Document, Excel, PowerPoint or Other Doc Using WordPress”. That tutorial was done using an earlier version of WordPress. This tutorial uses WordPress 2.7. This tutorial shows three things 1) How to upload a PDF, Microsoft Word doc, PowerPoint, Excel or other Office-type document using WordPress 2.7. 2) How to insert a link to that document into a WordPress post or page. (Visitors to your site can click on the link to download or view the document.), and 3) that there are two things called “Media Library” in the WordPress 2.7 Dashboard, one of which has more information about the files in the Library than the other does. It’s helpful to see how you get to each of these Media Libraries because you can find the URL link for a file in only one of them, which can be confusing!