New Year Tip: Keep your Copyright Date Current

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Peter in Dot Net Nuke, Tips and Tricks, Usability, WordPress | Leave a comment

2012Every new year the annual ritual of updating the copyright dates on web sites commences.

This is the little, often overlooked, text snippit in the footer of most web sites that says something to the effect of “”Copyright 2012 Some Company.  All rights reserved.”

There are several good reasons for keeping the year current on your web site.

  1. Audience. First and foremost consider the impression your visitors will make of your web site when they notice that your copyright date is set to 2007.  Does that mean you have not updated your site in 5 years?  It can be enough to cause the visitor to click the back button and head to the next site. Read more

Social media tip: add your company to LinkedIn

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Peter in Internet Marketing, Social Media | Leave a comment

So you’ve created your LinkedIn profile and connected with a few colleagues.  That’s a good start.  But when you filled in your current position and added your company name did you realize you can create a company profile as well?

I’ve noticed many small to medium sized businesses and solopreneurs miss this step and miss out on free marketing to a wide web of people. Read more

Basic CSS Cheat Sheet

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Peter in Lessons | Leave a comment

To follow on from my HTML quick reference, I have come up with a CSS cheat sheet / quick reference.  It is intended for beginners learning CSS and uses the 2.1 standards.  For the sake of simplicity it refers to Internal Style Sheets as I find this to be the easiest way for students to grasp the concepts of selectors and declarations within their HTML document.

Enjoy and all comments are welcome.

Basic CSS Cheat Sheet (PDF)

Basic HTML Cheat Sheet

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Peter in Lessons | 5 Comments

I’ve seen lots of good HTML tag lists, cheat sheets, and quick guides out there but there do not seem to be many basic ones.  I wanted to create a quick reference to HTML for beginners and volia, the attached cheat sheet was born.

This reference uses the xHTML 1.0 strict rule set.

Enjoy.

Basic HTML Cheat Sheet PDF

Getting your DNN RSS Syndication to Update

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Peter in Dot Net Nuke | Leave a comment

Dot Net Nuke has the ability to syndicate via RSS almost any module within your DNN portal.

For example you can use the Announcements module to publish news about your organization and allow visitors to subscribe to your updates via RSS.

Often you want the latest news headlines to appear on your home page.  Enter the DNN “?News Feeds RSS” Module.  Just add the module to the page, enter the feed URL and presto you’ve got headlines (ok with a bit of tweaking to tidy up the look).

However, I have noticed that it can take AGES for new headlines to appear Read more

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