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Eep! I'm hoping that Gmail will just give up and let me go past 100%, as clearing off space would be pretty annoiying.
Posted in on April 02, 2007, 02:11 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Searching on Wired.com
If someone can tell me how to search for an article on Wired.com, I will give them a cookie.
Posted in on August 22, 2006, 11:34 AM | Comments (1) | Permalink
Notes from my Barcamp Session
Part of Barcamp is that everyone must give a session. I gave mine on using WordPress as a CMS for your non-blog website, discussing the development of MGross.com.
I'm not quite cool enough to know how to use a Wiki, so here are some notes and links.
Some Useful WordPress Plugins
· Get-a-Post: I use this plugin to let the front page blurb be edited without changing the rest of the front page template.
· Get Custom Field Values: This lets me create templates with multiple text areas, using WordPress' custom fields. An example is the two-column layout on this page. The right column is the body text, but the first column is a custom field.
· Redirectify: Allows a WordPress "page" to actually redirect to another site entirely. Useful for integrating "legacy" pages into your automatic navigation structure. On the MGross site, this is used for The More Things Change link in the books submenu.
A Note on .htaccess
One of the most important things to do when you recreate a site in WordPress is make sure the old links still work. Lots of people still link to your old URLs -- they don't want a 404 error! So, you can go to Manage > Files and add redirects to the beginning of your .htaccess. Here's a few from mgross.com's .htaccess:
# Redirects from Old Site
Redirect 301 /profiles.htm http://www.mgross.com/articles/profiles/?
Redirect 301 /articles.htm http://www.mgross.com/articles/article/?
Redirect 301 /author.htm http://www.mgross.com/about/?
Redirect 301 /740.htm http://www.mgross.com/books/740-park/?
Redirect 301 /times.htm http://www.mgross.com/books/740-park/?
Redirect 301 /model.htm http://www.mgross.com/books/model/?
The 301 means permanent redirect, so search engines like Google will update the link. The /? is required, or else WordPress will get confused and error.
Other Links
· Original Post on MGross.com Launch [ScottKidder.com]
· Creating and Using Pages [WordPress.org]
These are some links I've found on Google, though I haven't had time to read all of them:
· WordPress 1.5 as a Website CMS [AlexKing.org]
Find more? Comment here or email me, scott AT skidder.net.
Posted in on January 15, 2006, 11:00 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
"No Wilma, No Rubble"
Reading the New York Times online moments ago, I saw this ad for the Florida Keys. The Florida Keys are a beautiful place and I've spent a lot of time there, but using the destruction (and 47 deaths) of Hurricane Wilma as a selling point? Seems pretty insensitive to me.
· Hurricane Wilma [Wikipedia]
Posted in on November 14, 2005, 05:59 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
LinkedIn Contractdicts Itself
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I'm a fan of LinkedIn.
So I was surprised to log in tonight and see one of the stupidest promotional blurbs I've seen in a while. I'm told that:
You have no new opportunities — users with at least 10 connections and complete profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities.
An impressive statistic and compelling reason to get more connections and complete my profile. But less than an inch to the right of this, I'm told I have 16 connections. And my profile is pretty complete.
I appreciated the tip, but how hard would it be to only show that message to relevant users?
Posted in on October 09, 2005, 07:12 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
