WoW Teambuilder / List Builder
<div class=\"postavatar\">And now, an update! *gasp*
I just finished putting the final little touches on an idea I've been kicking around for years. It's just a little ap to visually build lists (or teams, etc). It's got no database, no login/username requirements, and a very simple way to save the state of your workspace to come back to later.
The basic idea is that you can add things to the 'table' and then move them around as if they were scraps of paper. So if you're in a WoW guild with 30+ active raiders and need a way to build 10man Ulduar teams, this is here to help you out.
Check it out, I'm pretty happy with it: Kythin's WoW Teambuilder and Generic List Builder
And ofcourse if you like it enough to want to support my random programming project habbit, you can always buy me a beer!
Wordspinner News
<div class=\"postavatar\">Hiya Wordspinner fans;
I've had a couple of emails lately about this little addon, and I do want to put some more work into it (e.g. nesting brackets, and not needing manual code changes to enable it) but I just haven't had time lately. If anyone out there wants to make some mods to it, you're welcome to, just send me your updates and I'll go through SVN hell again to put it on the wordpress server.
Seriously, have they not heard of an FTP server? geez.
Free php spinner!
<div class=\"postavatar\">A while ago a friend of mine, an SEO guy, told me about the concept of 'spinning' content. Basically the idea is to get many articles out of one article, by adding replacement words or phrases to the one article you write. Then, every time you refresh the page, the same - but different - article is displayed. It's mostly a way to confuse search engines into thinking you have more content than you do, but sometimes it's useful; E.g. if you have a summary of an article which is ripped straight from the main article, you might get a duplicate content penalty from Google every time it looks at your site.
It's always struck me as odd than nobody seems to have written anything (freely available anyway. $97? Bugger that!) for such a simple task, so I thought what the heck, I've got an hour or two, why don't I write it myself? So I did, and here it is;
Hits vs Visits, or “How to ask for website stats without sounding old”
<div class=\"postavatar\">"How many hits do we get?"
This question is almost as prevalent as the "How do I make a site" thing, but it's a lot more dated. If uttered by a marketer, it instantly shows their age as nobody actually asks about 'hits' anymore if they know what they're talking about.
I'll break down the terms first so you know what I'm talking about, if you don't already.
Google learns to read text in Flash files – What’s it mean for SEO?
<div class=\"postavatar\">Google have just announced that their world famous flagship product... you know, the search thing... can now read text elements inside flash files embedded on websites. They've been working hard alongside Adobe to get their new algorithm working, and Adobe seems to be similarly open to the idea as I'm sure it's one of the most requested feature updates from web developers ever since the term SEO actually started standing for something.
Google is not a person.
<div class=\"postavatar\">I've been using the term 'Google' as a personification lately, and until today I hadn't realised just how often I think or speak as such. For those not in the know about my job, I'm in the business of making websites. Most of my sites involve some degree of Search Engine Optimisation (or Optimization for you yankee's, or site-make-get-traffics for you Bernard Blacks out there.) and its been getting more and more ingrained into my thought process than ever lately.