After using Twitter’s badge utility (which generates the html/flash code for you) I realized that it would only return my own Tweets rather than displaying all timeline Tweets for a search result (in this case ‘#SEO’). So I found an article (http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/how-to-get-started-with-the-twitter-api/) which describes a PHP wrapper for Twitter’s API that would allow me to [...]
Read On No CommentsThis was the most challenging aspect of creating my Wiki site on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). After installing other Twitter Feed widgets and extensions, none of which worked correctly, I then read an article (http://mediawiki2u.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mediawiki-skins-design-sample-chapter-chapter-8-social-netwo.pdf) on adding JavaScript provided by Twitter (at www.twitter.com/badges) directly to the html source (in the case of MediaWiki, then skin [...]
In preparation of another assignment for OPIM 5165, I researched open source wiki platforms that would allow me to install and host them on my own domain. I found MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) and downloaded it. The installation was pretty straight forward, upload to webserver, create a MySQL database, create a database user, grant the user privileges, [...]
My blog has been up since February 4th and I’ve already received 23 comments on my blog posts. Unfortunately 100% of the comments are spam! I activated the Akismet plugin for WordPress by getting an API key from Akismet.com. However, this downside of the pluggin is that if a comment “looks” like spam but isn’t [...]
I just ran across this free utility trying to publish some of my PowerPoint presentations to this blog. This utility converts a .ppt file to a Flash file and allows it to be published to the web. Download: Click Here
All of the websites I host (including this one) have Google Analytics embedded. This allows me to analyze traffic sources, click patterns, time on site, etc. I use it more for the other sites than this one. As I was looking through the organic traffic sources (originating from search engines) I noticed that someone typed [...]
So I installed WordPress and applied a theme that I liked. The only curveball during the install was the fact that I had to add a redirect (via an .htaccess file on the Linux host server’s root folder). The next steps I’m going to look into is add-ons for Google AdSense (leveraging my existing account) [...]