Broadstreet Blog

One of the challenges of building a large Web site is getting the technical people to work with the graphic design and marketing people.  The city of Columbia, SC recently experienced this exact problem when the technical department unveiled their $107,000 web site just days before the marketing department was planning to launch their own $10,000 redesign of the site. 

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Barack Obama has created change.gov as part of his transition to the Oval Office.  In addition, he has said he will appoint a Chief Technology Officer and will push to get broadband access to all Americans.  This is a good thing. 

Additionally, he has said he will have a five-day online comment period prior to signing any non-emergency legislation.  This is also a good thing. 

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Up until today I was using BUEditor for editing this blog.  Functionality is fairly limited.  It seems more geared toward someone who is comfortable with HTML.  Now I've installed FCKEditor and this is my first post using it.  

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I had a phone call today that a site that I support was not available and their was a very strange home page. After doing a research, it appears to me that iSKORPiTX; does this sort of thing from time to time, every 3-6 months or so. I found one place where someone said he attacked over 20,000 sites in under 24 hours. So what does he do?

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One of the things that increases your "Google Juice" is "Link Love." I'm helping a friend build a Web site about Trout fishing, called www.TroutU.com. I was explaining that Google and other search engines give high credibility to sites that have a lot of links to it, coming from other sites. He asked me how to get others to link to his site, which is a great question.

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I found some useful information on the Duct Tape Marketing Blog. You can create an LLC or Corporation, normally $149, for free next Tuesday. Mention code FREE149 to receive the $149 discount. More information at http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/10/28/incorporation-processing-free-for-a-day/

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I installed three new modules in my efforts to get my blog up to par with WordPress and BlogSpot. My wife Valerie, whose blog is at nothingbetterthanablankpage.blogspot.com, is a heavy user of the scheduling function. She does multiple blog entries then schedules them for daily release. I wanted to do the same thing, so I installed the following: Scheduler - this allows me to set a time to publish any node.

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I found this article, talking about a new hosted blogging platform called OnSugar.com. I may have to check it out and see how it compares to my Broadstreet Blog.

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I had several issues I wanted to address with regard to this blog. First, I wanted a tag cloud so that readers could easily find posts based on the tags. I also realized that Drupal's Clean URL's were not producing blog-like, Google-friendly URLs for my posts. So I added three new modules to this Drupal site tonight while watching the Presidential Debate. Path - this is a core module that is required for Pathauto. Pathauto - allows me to automatically set the URL and setup rules to automatically name the URLs. Works wonderfully.

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 Google Analytics is my tool of choice for viewing and analyzing site statistics. Here is an image from a recent report about Tyler Brothers, showing the impact of a permission-based email that was sent to about 500 Tyler Brothers customers. You can see that site visits doubled on days when the emails were distributed.

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