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 [...]
This 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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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) [...]