Category: CMS

A web application that provides capabilities for multiple users with different permission levels to manage web page (content) without the need to have HTML knowledge.

Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130727

50 Homepage Website Layouts using Featured Details & Icon Lists by Jake Rocheleau

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Explaining Markdown The trend of icon detail lists has be rising very quickly but silently. I have not seen many other designers writing about this topic, and my hope is to shed light onto the trend with some beautiful examples. Generally startups and smaller Internet-based websites utilize these icon details for pitching their product to customers.
Homepage layouts are also the typical place to find these details because it will capture visitors landing right on the website. Some icons are very large, others are tiny and stacked in rows of 6 or 8 features. Other icons are colorful or flat or shiny and many other various styles. The point is to give recognition for these icon-centric interface features which really to present a beautiful product to interested consumers.
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Shared this for the excellent keep it simple calls to action this model presents!  And if these 50 ideas don’t work, let me know what you came up with instead ok?

Guy R Cook - President vDomainHosting, Inc

Freemium
and the links to go with that word.

5 ways developers fail at freemium games

Freemium Games Explained!  – Dual currencies and more.

Freemium Is Irresistable, Even For Successful Game Companies

Advanced Link Tracking Code from Google

It’s listening really well, that enables you to hear the sound of one hand clapping.

7 Benefits of App Authorization for Sweepstakes

To make sweepstakes perform better, here are 7 benefits explained.

by Frederick Vallaeys

The Evolution Of Quality Score

Even if you don’t care much for a history lesson, it may help paint a picture of why QS exists in the first place, and the evolution of factors may give you some insight into what Google cares about.When I started working at Google in 2002, Quality Score didn’t exist. But what set Google apart from the other PPC ad systems at the time was how they determined if ads were relevant enough to warrant an impression. In addition to having a team of humans reviewing all ads, the system was also monitoring the click-through rate (CTR) of every keyword — if a keyword’s CTR fell below 0.5%, it would become disabled for poor relevance. Google was using the wisdom of the crowds to let its users determine which ads should show and which shouldn’t.The problem with disabling keywords at an arbitrary CTR level was that advertisers were unhappy to see some of their keywords disabled forever (unless, of course, they knew of the workaround to resubmit the same keyword with different capitalization). So, we started to evolve the system. Instead of disabling keywords, we came up with new statuses like “slowed,” “in trial” and “on hold.”

Know Thy Fans – Be Relevant In Your Fan Acquisition Efforts

Before you pull the trigger on a sweepstakes to win a new iPad, diamond earrings, or luxury vacation, ask yourself if the people who enter your contest are doing it because they are potential customers and want to engage with your brand, or if they’re just using you for a chance to win that shiny new gadget/sparkly/getaway.
— another great post from the WooBox website @ http://blog.woobox.com 

5 Landing Page Headline Formulas Tested

By Michael Aagaard

While there is no shortage of articles that list different headline formulas that you can use on your landing pages, there really isn’t much research available on how these formulas actually perform in real life on real landing pages.

How to Deactivate All Plugins
When Not Able to Access WP-Admin

Often times during troubleshooting, hosted WordPress, many sites will recommend deactivate all plugins and activate them one by one. What’s worst is sometimes you get locked out of your WordPress admin panel, so you can’t even deactivate the plugins in an easy way. If you have ever faced the white screen of death, then you know exactly what we are talking about. In this article, you will be shown how to deactivate all WordPress plugins when not able to access wp-admin area.

JoomlaShine Power Admin

Very often JoomlaShine sees reports from users about how difficult it is to do simple tasks in Joomla such as changing module positions, hiding an article’s title or relocating menu items. Thus, we decided to take a good look at how people use Joomla and created an ultimate solution to make such processes much easier and joyful.  Have a look.

Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130607

20130607

Added tweet post so that KEEK account could be verified, in Twitter and it got added to the Facebook ‘automagically’

Upgraded Dropbox to version 2.0.26

http://www.justin-klein.com/projects/facebook-photo-fetcher/ Facebook Photo Fetcher is a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily generate WordPress photo galleries from any Facebook album you can access. So, as a test, http://fathomsofun.org/blog/concerts-by-the-bay-20130606-hook-me-up/ was created.

Putting the text in the inforgraphic into text so the links work. By that I mean, the image is great, quick to understand what it’s for, but clicking on the image re-opens that image, not what I wanted which was to have the links for each blog promotion resource work. Here’s that infographic’s main link and below that a list of part of the links there.
http://hosting.ber-art.nl/promote-blog-posts-traffic/ Happy Friday

Ifttt.com allows you to syndicate to over 50 different sites.

BlogCatalog.com – helps you connect with other bloggers to share ideas and posts

DemandStudios.com – distributes your blog posts to publishers like USAToday.com, Salon.com and eHow.com

Amazon.com – submit your blog to https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com/gp/vendor and get paid when Kindle owners read it.

NetworkedBlogs.com – Get found and get more traffic when you submit your blog. Also links to Facebook.

Alltop.com – syndicates content in every category, from autos and food to business and sports.

Scribnia.com – the source for reader reviews of the web’s bloggers and columnists

Syndic8.com – syndicates blogs that cover a wide variety of topics, one of the most popular syndication services.

EvanCarmichael.com – If you provide business-related content, this site is a must.

OutBrain.com – syndicates your blog posts to sites like CNN.com and FastCompany.com

20130606
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_27002#Implementation_example_of_ISO.2FIEC_27002  example of information security policies, a good starting resource to review your 5 year old policies.

20130605

 
http://fosterinternetadvisor.blogspot.com  An excellent blog, Foster’s Forum by name.
 
Google Apps
Google Apps is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. It’s simple to set up, use and manage, allowing you to work smarter and focus on what really matters.

20130604

 

Listen To Your Customers

http://evernote.com/skitch/  Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.  A great addon for Evernote.
 

RE:  The setup of Google Apps accounts – What you’ll do in the setup wizard (see above)

Our easy-to-use wizard will walk you through all the steps in the setup process, without disrupting your web site or email system. Here’s what you’ll do:

  1. Verify domain ownership << Wait 15 min to 48 hrs for this to be done.

  2. Create user(s)  (Use the email instructions tab, copy those into Keypass and cc to Project Manager that are sent to the GMAIL address of the new user)

                  A.  The next step prompts me to setup billing.

  1. Run a pilot if you need to test the product or deployment process

  2. Activate email and setting up access on mobile phones

  3. Decide whether to migrate your old data, and how much to migrate

  4. Add core Google apps such as Calendar, Drive, and Sites

  5. Add apps from the Google Apps Marketplace to make your business more productive

20130603

 
BING site verifications, check & confirm they’re correct.
 
Updated blog roll on Tumblr with the Hubspot top marketing blogs
 
 
17 Essential Content Templates and Checklists By far, the most popular post ever published at the Content Marketing Institute
 

How To Setup WordPress SEO by Yoast

 
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