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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Getting Sunny Anderson’s Attention

Recently we have been reviewing the analytics for The Red Bird Life, http://theredbirdlife.com, one of the most recent projects I created, designed and deployed.

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Friday, December 4th, 2009

Easy steps to deploy Wordpress using Capistrano

A thorough guide to using git and capistrano to deploy a php based website, such as one using wordpress.

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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Wordsmith 2.0 released

An overview of version 2.0 of Wordsmith a spree extension. Wordsmith is a minimal solution to blogging and cms functionality in a Spree e-commerce site.

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Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Are Disqus comments right for your project?

I am working on a new website that needs a blog as part of a Spree store. In this case I am custom coding my own blog, to integrate seamlessly with the open source Spree project. The blog won’t be Wordpress but I am working on making it similar in functionality for the basic user [...]

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Saturday, November 21st, 2009

SEO tips for startup websites

Mark over at Brand5 shared this week about a few simple tips for planning when starting a new website. I have used these suggestions on a recent project that I will be unveiling soon.
“…regardless of how little you think your new website is going to rely on organic search for traffic (trust me it will [...]

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Saturday, November 21st, 2009

The Web Traffic Coach Interview

Jeff Newman, is becoming a fantastic resource for all things related to web traffic creation. He was just interviewed over at Smart Boy Designs.
“I chose this name because my mission is to provide resources and encouragement that help people drive more traffic to their websites. I started blogging to help people learn from my experiences [...]

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Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Building Wordsmith, a Spree Extension

Sharing the steps to build a Spree extension.

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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Deploying Spree using Heroku

Here is a guide on how I got a fresh install of Spree running on Heroku rails hosting.

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