Content management blog

SEO pitfalls

Quite often clients ask me if they should be adding "SEO friendly articles" to their site or blog. The practice of writing "for search engines" is a bad idea, not just for you, but your customers as well.

Mojomotor - First impressions

MojoMotor is the new page editor from Ellislab, developers of ExpressionEngine. Given a very wet weekend last Sunday I stayed in and gave it a closer look.

The demise of blog comments

There's been a noticeable trend in high profile blog turning off blog comments over the last few years. Is this a sign of things to come? Has blog commenting seen it's hayday?

MojoMotor - the new CMS from Ellislab

Ellislab, the creators of ExpressionEngine CMS, today announced a new publishing tool called MojoMotor. It's more of a page editor than a true CMS but it looks promising.

How to backup your Jshop database

Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that all your shop data had just disappeared and you had no backup, you'll have lost all your product and order information. Fortunately, backing up your data in Jshop is easy, here's how.

Blogging for business

Running a blog on your site can be a valuable tool for promoting your business online. But should you take the plunge or not?

The rise of the Content Management System

More and more clients are wanting the ability to manage their own content nowadays. There are a lot of CMS's to choose from but which one is the best, if there is a best one?

The Pareto 80-20 rule and your web site

The Pareto 80-20 principal can be a good rule for preparing, optimising and managing your web site content. It can help you by allowing you to focus on what's important...

Expression Engine 2 sneak preview

My favourite Content Management System is being redesigned with a strong focus on improved usability, greater productivity, more logical controls, and easier theming and customization.

10 tips for writing for the web

Getting your message across to your sites visitors needs different style of writing to other forms of media. Here are 10 tips you can use when writing content for your site.