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I am going to build a very simple blogging system in PHP. It should be SEO optimized.
I want to ask you some suggestions to get it right the first time.
I have also some specific questions:
1) Do you think embedding the timestamp in the URL ( /2011/03/25/how-to-build-a-blog) has got any real benefit?
2) Where is the best place to insert social widgets (facebook like button and tweet button).
3) Is there any reliable way to notify your new post automatically to major services (Digg, Google, Technorati)?
Thanks,
Dan
This is more of an opinion question than a hard answer question, but since nobody has answered in the last few months, I'll share my opinions. Hope they help.
1) I like knowing the dates of posts, so in my blog I have the date as part of the URL, but if you're feeling minimalist, I don't think it's a big deal to take it out.
2) I like the social widgets to be at the end of every post. That way, after I'm done reading, I can decide if I want to share.
3) There are plugins to let you automatically tweet and post to facebook. You can also publish your blog as an RSS and I'm sure there are services that will follow your RSS and auto submit.
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I have built a static website for a friend and now he came back asking me to convert it to Joomla, I looked it up online and stumbled on some tutorials, but those tutorials weren't very helpful as they seem to convert home page only.
I've managed to create the home page and converted the main parts to modules .
Now how do I go about inserting the other pages into Joomla?
Appreciate your help
You probably want to create the old pages as individual articles and then create a menu item for each page pointing to the coresponding article.
Agree wih Bakual, assuming you are on Joomla 3, just take each of your pages into an aricle. To start you can just leave them all uncategorized, then later if it makes sense you can move them around into a more complex structure. Of course if you need a contact form etc make that instead.
Have you logged into the administrator? The Absolute Beginner's Guide on http://docs.joomla.org is not bad. I don't want to self promote but you could also Google "Working with and Creating Content for Your Joomla! Site"
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Just signed up to Wordpress today and am already having several issues. I'm a front end developer, so I don't know a lot of php (I know some very basics). I tired to figure out how to add my own themes to Wordpress (basically I heard that you just code website normally with html, css and javascript like you usually would and then upload files to Wordpress). However I can't find this option anywhere, only changes I'm able to make are in GUI editor of current themes available in Wordpress. Can anyone explain how it works?
The general answer is no. Wordpress is built with PHP and content is served to the user using PHP.
Now, if you are just starting out and don't want to learn PHP here's my suggestion.
Find a theme as close to what you want your site to look like.
Then you can just modify the HTML, CSS and JS that supports the theme.
If you're not making drastic changes it should be fairly simple.
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Hey guys we want to create a informational type site for a very precise domain of knowledge, we want it to be in wiki like form. Whereby I mean the informational for each entity of knowledge is created by the users, and it works like wikipedia in that sense. Are there are web libraries we can use for a out of the box solution. WE don't want to spend much time programming this.
Thanks alot :)
Wikipedia is based on the open source Mediawiki system.
It's easy to use and install, but not very friendly for complex administration (especially regarding rights). And the editor is fine for engineers, not for everybody.
For other solutions, I suggest you google for "wiki" : that's the generic term describing this kind of system. Or "CMS" for something a little wider.
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I am working in rails, and a looking for some resources to design visually pleasing HTML forms. I can write the CSS, so even examples would be great.
Any recommendations?
There are many resources out there, you can just google for well looking forms or something like this.
There are also javascript libraries which makes customized selects/checkboxes etc -for example a project called uniform - check it out, you might like it. It provides you tools to customize it.
You can try Gravity Forms for WordPress then you never need to hand code the html and it inserts unique id's and matching classes in the HTML. This means the sky is the limit when it comes to styling your form.
If you are not using WordPress, here is a nice tutorial for designing form layouts.
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I remember once visiting a website that would present a book/novel summary in the most interesting way. It would show a list of words that were repeated most often in that book and which were unique/uncommon. In other words, it would show the maximum frequency words but not common words like the, I, you etc. Then it needs to have things like showing a phrase if that is repeated often. For example, Treasure Island would probably have words like - pirates, storm, fought, treasure, pieces of eight, island, Long John Silver, Jim, omen etc.
This was the most interesting way to quickly get a good feel of whether I would like reading that book or not. I cannot find that website anymore. So I thought of looking for a software that would do the job. I have a couple of books in pdf and doc format which I would like to have analyzed. Does anyone know of a good tool/software out there that can do this?
Of course I could probably code this myself but it sure would be nice to not reinvent the wheel. So my question is, "do you know of any such software?"
Thanks,
Mugen
(bookworm)
Try Wordle.net. It creates tag clouds and renders them in different ways.
Answer attribution: Dave