Wordpress SEO

January 25, 2009    Category: CMS and Blogs

Wordpress offers owners key requirements for SEO, however like all websites, SEO shouldn’t be something that you bolt-on, but instead should be something that build into the design from day one. In terms of Wordpress this equates to not only turning on various modules, but also deciding on your page and article structure in order to enhance your SEO.

Clearly if your pages, categories, and tags are not relevant to you main keywords then clearly this would pollute the SEO you are trying to achieve. Often before starting your website, be it Wordpress or otherwise, you should think clearly about what you want to achieve and even, perhaps, take a good long look at your competitors. What have do done well, how effective has it been; what have they done badly, and what has been the results of this.

In our opinion Wordpress offers some of the most effective SEO add-on’s available for any CMS or Blog, with many other being developed independently as we speak now. It also offers you the tools that you need in order to plan and implement effective SEO for your website (tags, categories, fancy-URLs, etc).

If you have a website and need to know how many people are visiting, where they are coming from, and what areas they are viewing (etc) then you need Google Analytics. There are some other metrics available but with Google being the world’s number search engine it makes sense to use Google metrics, especially if you use or intend to use Google AdWords.
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New nCoded Website

January 25, 2009    Category: Information

You can find information on techniques and Coding styles on the nCoded Website, as well as articles, resources, and information on some of the leading Open Source solutions available including PHP, MySQL, Apache, PEAR, Zend Framework, OSCommerce, ZenCart, Joomla, Magento, Word Press, Drupal, PHP-LD and other applications, toolkits, CMS and Blogs.

We also aim to bring in related areas of internet business including: Business websites, E-Commerce websites, Graphics for print and web, Search Engine Optimisation, PHP Programming, Javascript Programming, CSS/XHTML Translation, Relational Databases, Open source software, Hosting Control Panels and other essential key areas of e-business.

Joomla 1.5 CMS

January 25, 2009    Category: CMS and Blogs

Joomla! is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalisation. Joomla is licensed under the GPL (general purpose license), and is the result of a fork of Mambo.

The name Joomla officially ends with an exclamation mark, but this is commonly omitted.

It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database by default.

PHP5 MVC

January 25, 2009    Category: Web Databases, Web Programming

Model-view-controller (MVC) is an architectural pattern used in software engineering. Successful use of the pattern isolates business logic from user interface considerations, resulting in an application where it is easier to modify either the visual appearance of the application or the underlying business rules without affecting the other. In MVC, the model represents the information (the data) of the application; the viewcorresponds to elements of the user interface such as text, check-box items, and so forth; and the controller manages the communication of data and the business rules used to manipulate the data to and from the model.

The PHP5 Object Model

January 25, 2009    Category: Web Databases, Web Programming

Object handling was completely rewritten for PHP 5, expanding the feature set and enhancing performance. In previous versions of PHP, objects were handled like primitive types. The drawback of this method was that the whole object was copied when a variable was assigned or passed as a parameter to a method. In the new approach, objects are referenced by handle, and not by value.

PHP 5 introduced private and protected member variables and methods, along with abstract classes and final classes as well as abstract methods and final methods. It also introduced a standard way of declaring constructors and destructors, similar to that of other object-oriented languages such as C++, and a standard exception handling model.

Furthermore, PHP 5 added interfaces and allowed for multiple interfaces to be implemented. There are special interfaces that allow objects to interact with the runtime system. Objects implementing ArrayAccess can be used with array syntax and objects implementing Iterator or IteratorAggregate can be used with the foreach language construct. There is no virtual table feature in the engine, so static variables are bound with a name instead of a reference at compile time.

Dreamweaver CS3

January 25, 2009    Category: IDE Editors

As a WYSIWYG IDE (integrated development enviroment), Dreamweaver can hide the HTML code details of pages from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web pages and sites. One criticism of this approach is that it can produce HTML pages whose file size and amount of HTML code is larger than an optimally hand-coded page would be, which can cause web browsers to perform poorly. This can be particularly true because the application makes it very easy to create table-based layouts.

In addition, some web site developers have criticised Dreamweaver in the past for producing code that often does not comply with W3C standards, though recent versions have been more compliant. Dreamweaver 8.0 performed poorly on the Acid2 Test, developed by the Web Standards Project. However, Adobe has increased the support for CSS and other ways to lay out a page without tables in later versions of the application, with the ability to convert tables to layers and vice versa.

The Eclipse I.D.E

January 25, 2009    Category: IDE Editors

Eclipse is a multi-language software development platform comprising an IDE and a plug-in system to extend it. It is written primarily in Java and is used to develop applications in this language and, by means of the various plug-ins, in other languages as well — C/C++, Cobol, Python, Perl, PHP and more.

The initial codebase originated from VisualAge. In its default form it is meant for Java developers, consisting of the Java Development Tools (JDT). Users can extend its capabilities by installing plug-ins written for the Eclipse software framework, such as development toolkits for other programming languages, and can write and contribute their own plug-in modules. Language packs provide translations into over a dozen natural languages.