Posts Tagged ‘tips’

What not to do when creating a web application

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

If a web application such as an open-sourced CMS wishes to do well in the Internet, the people behind the application need to mind a few things so that third-party developers and designers would not have problem with the application in the future.

For example, WordPress is liked a lot by its developers and designers as even though it experiences some upgrades, most of the code remains the same. No significant changes are done to the code. This either makes upgrading their plugin easier or allows it to be compatible with the upgrade.

Magento on the other hand has always been a headache for its developers. There are so many different codes being added with each change of version that plugins that supports a different version will not support the latest version.

In addition to that, the interface shouldn’t be getting harder to use. Instead, it should be easier. Joomla still has a long way to go as its backend can be quite overwhelming for a new user. WordPress on the other hand, is very easy to use and is user friendly.

All in all, open source is still the way to go. There are so many applications today that are made open sourced and a lot of these are a champion in one way or another.

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Tips for Getting High Ranks on Google

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Every website wants to get a high rank in Google search engine results page. In fact, no one wants to be in the bottom 5 of the first page let alone the second page. The fact that the chances of people clicking the first website in the page are roughly 50% is very interesting. Therefore, webmasters are trying their best to rank as high as possible in Google SERP.

One great tip to get a high rank in Google is by making sure that the website is accessible by both the search engine crawlers as well as the visitors. Try to make the website in compliance with the W3C standards and use sitemaps as well as robots.txt to help the search engine robots crawl the site with ease.

In addition to that, the site’s architecture shouldn’t be complicated. If it takes a visitor more than three to four clicks to get to a specific page, then the webmaster should seriously consider redesigning the architecture of the website so that it would be easier to get to any page.

Make sure that the website have not only quality content but unique as well. It pays to get a good article writer than to have 10 that makes horrible articles.

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Having a 100% Unique Product Isn’t Necessary

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Creating a product that is 100% unique from any other products in the market is not necessary. In fact, even a product with as little as 20% of unique content inside it. For example, there was a research made recently about an eBook that was sold by a prominent author of a famous website. There weren’t any complaint on the eBook although it has as little s 20% of original content inside it.

So, how is this possible? Don’t people feel that they are being ripped off?

In fact, one reason that they don’t feel that they are being ripped off is simply because they’ve forgotten what they’ve read before. Putting it back inside the eBook reminds them again on what needs to be done or what is the important point that they keep on forgetting about.

The next reason may be because that the readers haven’t read the existing content on the website. This is possible for contents that are half a year old but is still being put inside the eBook. To a large number of readers, they will not be familiar with existing contents that are more than half a year old.

In addition to that, it may be because of the way the book is organized. For example, a blog post is written in no particular order but most often than not, a good book focuses on something that a beginner would be able to do and then intermediate steps. Lastly, there will be steps for the advanced users. This is one of the reason why it isn’t necessary to have a 100% unique product.

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