October 9th, 2010 § § permalink
New dashboard in Google Webmaster Tools
Google has confirmed with a post on their official webmaster blog the changes that users have been seeing for the past week.
Changes are for:
The most important being the better statistics for search queries and the possibility to view the data for each one separately
October 8th, 2010 § § permalink
Google’s LatLong blog has announced that the Latitude service is now more user friendly and can be accessed at it’s own URL: http://www.google.com/latitude . The update has added now in the same place also the Dashboard and History, making the service more fun to use. I’ve been using those 2 since their launch but to access them I had to rely on my browser’s history or Google Search to get to their URL.
Google Custom Search is also receiving a new feature and allows you now to manage what the auto completion feature shows to your users.
September 28th, 2010 § § permalink
Today, by chance, I’ve discovered one of the greatest resources on WordPress that I’ve seen this year. I’m talking about Vladimir Prelovac, a croatian wordpress developer (and at first look a pretty darn good SEO guy). One of his biggest projects is ManageWp.com. What can you expect to find here:
For more details you can check this post.
Usage ideea:
If you are a freelance developer that has a focus on wordpress (or even if you are a web agency), create a sample wordpress install on your server and add all the plugins that you regularly use. Once you’ve done that, add the newly created blog to ManageWP.com. Each time you will need to create a new blog, just use the cloning feature and you are good to go. Now, 1-2 hrs of working have been reduced to a few simple clicks.
TIP 1: If you create themed wordpress installs (presentation, blog, CMS, ecommerce) make as many installs as you need
TIP 2: Before cloning make sure that all plugins and WPs are at their latest version
P.S. If you are worried giving to a third party your wordpress credentials, Vladimir is preparing a self hosted version of the plugin
March 14th, 2010 § § permalink
One of the biggest issue with the use of tags is the fact that their users have the tendency to create a large number of items to describe the content and in the end you will end up with a unique tags for each piece f content they are creating.
In general this happens because the users forget their previous tags.
WordPress has tried to limit this behavior through 2 elements:
- autocomplete: once the user starts typing, the associated tags will start to appear eliminating misspellings and guiding the user to previous tags
- most popular tags: this appeals to the lazy user that writes about the same content periodically. Replacing typing with mouse clicks is a winner
March 14th, 2010 § § permalink
This is one original flight reservation interface that manages to reduce the number of clicks without reducing the number of features for the end user.
For example, most of the travel websites, for date reservation, require the user to click within the date text box in order to access the calendar selector.
