Recently on one of my Joomla projects a user complained that they used the Password Reset feature but they encountered an error in the final steps of the process. How does Joomla’s Password Reset feature work? Joomla’s Password Reset feature asks for the user’s email address which it checks for in the user account table [...]
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Think back to your days in school – remember the ‘cool’ kids? How they were the most popular? Got the most attention? How everyone wanted to run with them? How your social ranking was based on who you knew and in what context? Well, search engine optimisation is exactly the same. If your site is [...]
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so·cial [soh-shuhl] –adjective pertaining to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club. seeking or enjoying the companionship of others; friendly; sociable; gregarious. of, pertaining to, connected with, or suited to polite or fashionable society: a social event. Definition from dictionary.com If we look at the definition of the adjective “social” it becomes clear that any social interaction involves two or more people, not a corporate entity. When businesses attempt to use social marketing channels like Facebook and Twitter, they sometimes do so [...]
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Where Search Engine Optimisation is concerned too many businesses still believe that it is the “Silver Bullet” of online marketing and that once the web site has been optimized the job is done. However, just optimizing your site pages with context, keywords etc is not enough; these are internal factors you can directly control however [...]
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This past week saw one of the most exciting races for the coveted UK Xmas #1 slot, a race headed by Rage Against The Machine, a nineties rock/rap band, and the 2009 X-factor winner Joe McElderry. Using the power of social networking tools Facebook and Twitter, Jon and Tracy Morter started a campaign just over [...]
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“The customer is always right” is a term that is taking on new meaning in the increasingly connected consumer world. Why? Because a bad experience can be advertised around the Internet within minutes by a disgruntled consumer using their connections on various social networks they are a member of, doing damage to a brand that [...]
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In an announcement on Monday Twitter and LinkedIn said they are rolling out a service whereby it will be possible sync status updates between the two services. Facebook and Twitter already do this to a degree and it just makes sense that the world’s most popular micro-blogging platform and the world’s most popular professional networking [...]
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What is a personal brand? It’s the process by which you market yourself to others, whether you’re looking for a job or establishing yourself as an expert in your field or even just posting tweets on Twitter. It’s what you’re seen to wear in online photos, what your ‘voice’ on the Internet sounds like, what [...]
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A short video montage of why Gary Vaynerchuk wrote his new book Crush It!
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Raj Kotecha of Creative Content Agency interviews Gary Vaynerchuk on how to leverage social media and build a brand. This 30 minute interview is one of the best I’ve watched in quite some time with many gems of wisdom from Gary. He also talks a little about his new new book on social media, Crush [...]
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I’ve recently started looking at the ZEND framework for PHP and wanted to know how to install and run it on my Windows XAMMP development environment. Norman Kosmal has a nice post on how to do this here and the Zend folk have a nice quick-start guide here
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More and more websites are using WordPress as their back-end Content Management System due to its ease of use and excellent built-in search-engine-optimization. However, as with all software, WordPress does have bugs that are exploited to wreak havoc on your site. This blog article talks about upgrading your WordPress installation to ensure the latest security [...]
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Prototyping is the method by which a designer/developer mocks up pages/screens for a web site or some piece of software, to help the design and development team visualize the product. Sketching out on a piece of paper is generally best as at this stage of development there are likely to be many changes and sketching [...]
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Designing a new logo is difficult and it always helps to get a little inspiration by checking out the work of others; Logopond has a gallery of over 2,500 logos – enough inspiration for anyone! This logo here and this one are two of my favorites…
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A web designer betting his friend that he could use social networking to make a ‘million of anything’ led to the creation of the website www.OneMillionGiraffes.com, which called for users to send the creator one million giraffes that they’ve made, either as models or drawings. Although he didn’t really think he’d get much of a [...]
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