This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
Managing a Domain Name in Site management
Smooth the transition between Web hosts with some careful DNS planning up front.
Content Management Without A System in Site management
It's very important to have a process in place before you choose a CMS.
coWiki in Site management
In many senses, it is very like a wiki but additionally provides an easy way to secure and discuss its documents.
Ensuring your CMS project is a success in Site management
Install mod_perl on cPanel / WHM Host in Site management
Cpanel is a popular web hosting control package offered with many hosting accounts. It apparently can not be used in combination with mod_perl, but here are some instructions on how to get the two working together.
Web Metrics in Site management
How could three separate web metrics programs be given access to the exact same numbers (526 orders), and yet deliver a set of metrics that are 276 percent apart? How can Google's Adword Select program report 7,706 more clicks than our actual log files report? More importantly, how can a marketing team make effective decisions if they don't have accurate numbers?
Judging the likely Success of an Ontology in Site management
Ontologies are nice, in theory, but difficult to extract value from, in practice. They fail for a variety of reasons: The fundamental assumptions on which they are based are often unsound. Sometimes they are inflexible and unable to adapt to new circumstances. Or, conversely, while attempting to make them adaptable their designers make them too abstract for the people who are then burdened with their implementation.
Web site user modeling with PHP in Site management
Boxes and Arrows: All About Facets & Controlled Vocabularies in Site management
We intend to explain both facets and the more general concept of controlled vocabularies. We want to make the subject accessible to those who don't have advanced degrees in library and information science. Furthermore, we want to show how these concepts can be applied to solve information architecture problems for the Web and other digital information environments.
Boxes and Arrows: Sitemaps and Site Indexes: What They Are and Why You Should Have Them in Site management
They give users a way to navigate a site without having to use the global navigation. By providing a way to visualize and understand the layout and structure of the site, a sitemap can help a lost or confused user find her way.
Awesome Network Health Monitor Tool in Site management
I would like to introduce the world to one of the best network stability monitoring tools ever made. And the Magical tools is... Winamp. Yes... Winamp.
Weblogs vs. Websites, Part 3 (or Retiring My Old Home Page) in Site management
In short, I now believe that a weblog can be the main publishing platform for any website, including a law firm website. And weblog software is much more powerful than traditional web publishing software.
Beyond the Blog in Site management
Like all weblog management tools, MT is basically just a lightweight content manager, but it's power is in its flexibility. This article is aimed at people comfortable with HTML and creating their own MT templates, but if you're new to the tool there might still be some tips worth picking up.
Adaptive Path's MT Setup in Site management
How Adaptive Path uses MT as a CMS
Help the Googlebot understand your web site in Search
As a web site author, there are a few simple things you can do to help the Googlebot understand your web site as fully as possible.
Jon Udell | OSCOM 2003 | Grade School CMS Lessons in Site management
Write effective titles and topic sentences. Neatness counts. Share with others. No hitting.
Better HTML editing with Movable Type in Site management
So I just went through and hooked up the htmlArea WYSIWYG editor to my Movable Type install. Fairly painless to do.
Keep It Simple: The Ideal Web Team (part 2) in Site management
In this column I'll continue my investigation of the ideal Web team.
Blurbs: Writing Previews of Web Pages in Site management
A good blurb should inform, not tease. Usability testing will help you determine the best way to lay out your blurbs, but this document will help you write the content.
CMS Review in Site management
The mission of CMS REVIEW is to give you the resources you need to choose the best content management system for your organization. We will cover proprietary and open-source products, application development frameworks and finished out-of-the-box solutions.
Search Tools with Open Source Code in Site management
List of open source search engines for your Web site.
Practical Persona Creation : evolt.org, IA/Usability in Site management
A quick and easy method to help you create your personas, as well as the basics of how they can be used.
Story of an Intranet Redesign in Site management
Three-part series on the redesign and implementation of an intranet. Mentions Movable Type, Contribute vs. Front Page, information architecture, and problems with CMS implementation.
Aegir CMS in Site management
Aegir CMS is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) built on the reliable Midgard platform.
Browser History timeline: Overview in Site management
Releases important to HTML and CSS development
opensourceCMS in Site management
This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs
Matrix Event Advisories in Site management
Matrix NetSystems scans the worldwide Internet all day, every day. Our systems know when there is an event on the network that could affect your traffic. The Event Advirsories are a weekly summary of the events that we detect.
Content-Management Vendors' Struggles Continue in Site management
Licensing revenue, a key indicator for software vendors, is falling at both Vignette and Stellent--and the losses are mounting.
City Ogles Google Impact in Site management
It's difficult to imagine getting more from a $23,000 investment in search technology than the city of San Diego has gotten from its deployment of a Google Inc. search appliance.
Intranet cost-benefits in Site management
If a senior mangement team does not have the vision to see what the benefits of an intranet can be, then it's time to find a job elsewhere before the intranet implodes.
Why every small website needs a CMS in Site management
Along with the many other administrative tools, this leaves you to concentrate on the words, and not on the technology.
Content Management Design in Site management
This book is about designing and coding Content Management Systems from scratch. It covers revisioning, permissions, workflow, and templates, and by the time you've reached the end, you should be able to write your own enterprise-strength CMS from the ground up, or at least have a better appreciation of the issues involved. (With complete PHP code, data models, and database)
matt jones | The Glass Wall in Site management
Until either my webhost or my bosses ask me to take it down, here is a document detailing the design process behind the BBC homepage.
ezBOO in Site management
ezBOO WebStats is a high level statistical tool for web sites monitoring.
It allow real time access monitoring on several sites. (Built with PHP/MySql)
Cpanel and Web Host Manager in Site management
With an administrator interface through WebHost Manager, and an end user interface through Cpanel, every part of your hosting operations are covered.
Hosting Controller in Site management
Hosting automation tool for Windows 2000 servers. This is all what you need to put your hosting business on auto pilot.
Boxes and Arrows: What Is A Controlled Vocabulary? in Site management
That means if the developers of the site began to see that people were searching for "dungarees" and getting zero hits, they would need to create a way to tell the system, "when someone searches for 'dungarees,' give them the results for 'jeans.'"
Content Management Systems Resources in Site management
Directory of CMS resources, books, articles, directories, and vendors.
Web Metrics That Matter - E-COMMERCE TOOLS - CIO Magazine Nov 15,2002 in Site management
The following are descriptions of some of the most important metrics and analysis tools, depending on the type of website.
phpOpenTracker in Site management
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of website traffic and visitor analysis. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a web-bug by a HTML <img> tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a website into a database. One installation of phpOpenTracker can track an arbitrary number of web-sites.
What is your website good for? in Site management
Too few company websites are built on sound business case principles
Microsoft.com Backstage in Site management
How Microsoft's Web site is built, managed, and maintained.
Simplelinks is a collection of interesting spaces on the Web. Short, to the point, without commentary. Provided by Kalsey Consulting Group.
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