Realtime Indexing, Peddling Mistruths and Pinging Google

One thing that really annoys me about the web design and development industry is so called professionals peddling mistruths. Take the post I read today; a local company offering "real time indexing" to its clients. There’s no such thing, but the version of it they present is available to everyone free, not a service to [...]

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WordPress 3.0: Theme Customisation APIs Exciting and Daunting

The release of WordPress 3.0 contains something that is both exciting and daunting for developers. The new APIs for creating customisable themes: They are exciting because they will allow us developers to make themes customisable much more easily than before. But at the same time it is daunting because it is a lot of new [...]

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Creating the Ultimate WordPress Urls for SEO

In the last few weeks I have seen several tutorials claiming to show how to create an SEO url structure in self-hosted WordPress powered blogs and websites, only to find that all they did was go into WordPress settings and select one of the click and go options (fig 1). Luckily I already knew how [...]

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