EETemplates

I recently made some time for catching up on SEO. I think I probably read several hundred pages of downloadable pdfs and a dozen or more blogs. Lots of information out there. But when Matt Cutts talks about SEO we all need to listen. He is THE man at Google regarding Seearch Engine Optimization. He recently did a talk at the Wordcamp conference in San Francisco. It’s 45 minutes but it is so worth it. The summary? Content is King.

Click here to go to his site and watch the video

I think anyone that is interested in ExpressionEngine development should frequent EE Insider at least 1-2 times a week. Especialy those that may just be getting their feet wet in the world of ExpressionEngine. So without further ado here is our 5 Reasons You Should Read EE Insider article….

I was busy ... tweeting the other day when an ad for Brand Bucket appeared in my Tweetie stream (Tweetie kicks butt by the way!). Thought it was a very interesting concept so I clicked through to find that they actually have a ton of really cool ‘brands’ for sale. Really what they have done is registered some interesting word combinations as domain names and created a fun logo for the domain. The logo is not really part of the sale but you can request it.

Often when we work with custom clients I wish I had a cheat sheet for how to ‘read’ the data garnered from Google Analytics. We all know to pay attention to Visitors, Pageviews and Keywords. But I wanted something that went further and explained Bounce Rate, Duration on Site and others. Darren Rowse of Problogger.net has been taking readers through a 30 day program to boost traffic on their blogs and released this today…

I want to define CMS because I think a lot of people think that a Content Management System and a Blog are two different entities. What Wikipedia has as a definition of CMS:

A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of digital media and electronic text.[1]

Whereas Wikipedia defines blog as the following:

Before we begin I would like to state that I am not an expert in Wordpress or Joomla. I have made custom sites in both and have set up plenty of installations for clients but caveat emptor I feel like I know what I am doing but I might be delusional…

Over the course of the last couple of weeks I have read many comments, articles and tweets about how Wordpress is the bomb and Joomla sucks or Joomla has the best plugins and why would I pay 200+ for a CMS or Wordpress can only do blogs well. You get the idea right? I understand that we all have our favorite CMS. For the record ours is ExpressionEngine (duh!). But I can so appreciate what Joomla and Wordpress bring to the table so I wanted to try and do is take an objective look into the bowels of each of these CMSs. Basically we will be looking at the following…

It is awesome to see the amount of attention and opportunity that is coming to the EE community. Between the recent blog entries over at SmashingMagazine and SixRevisions and the recent addition of some Blogs that are aimed specifically at the ExpressionEngine Market. Things are definitely looking up for the most awesomest Content Management System this side of the universe

Freelance Folder just wrote up a great article on 12 businesses that were started by freelancers. Of mention were ActiveCollab (used by Ellislab and many in the EE Community), Duoh with Veerle Pieters and Geert Leyseele (whom are avid EE users), and Woothemes (they are Wordpress folk but their designs are top notch).

As someone that comes from a freelancing background I like articles like this that show that sometimes going it alone can lead to something quite large.

Click here for the Freelance Folder Article