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Archive for December, 2009
HootSuite iPhone App Review
Dec 29th
Hey hey!
I’ve just (well, last night) downloaded the HootSuite iPhone App to play around with so I thought I’d hit you guys with a bit of a HootSuite iPhone app review.
First up, I’ll give you a bit of a background on HootSuite itself. Hootsuite is a web based aggregation service which allows you to manage all your social networks from one easy to use and great looking web interface. It does look great and has some nice features, including:
Migrating from BlogEngine.net to WordPress – first thoughts and why we did it.
Dec 22nd
Well I’ve spent today switching from BlogEngine to WordPress and you know what, it’s not been bad.
I’ll maybe put a write up on here of the experiences but I guess there might not be too much to write.
I’ve always played around with WordPress and implemented it for clients, but being the .net geezer I am (even more so now I’ve fallen in love with mojoPortal) I always went for BlogEngine.
The reason I switched to WordPress was simple, and two fold: BlogEngine didn’t have enough themes or plugins. Of course we could make our own, but why reinvent the wheel? We do build More >
mojoPortal Review – my first experience creating mojoPortal skins – is this the best open source .net CMS?
Dec 17th
Hi, and welcome to my mojoPortal review, sprinkled with a few tips from my first time creating mojoportal skins.
Let me give you the bits you need to know before I get into the review proper:
- You can download MojoPortal from here
- It is developed by the extremely helpful Joe Audette
- It is written in C# .NET
- You can use the very good Community Forums to help get you started, along with the official documentation
- You can check out the mojoPortal demo to have a play around
Ok, so that’s where you can get the information you need, so let me give you a bit of a background of me More >
How to write a design brief for web design projects and SEO success
Dec 14th
Hey hey
We put a post up a while ago about the importance of a good design brief and promised we’d follow it up with how to write a design brief. Well, here it is.
We’re lucky enough to work a wide variety of projects through our SEO and web design work and the most common thing that we find is that clients don’t actually know how to write a good design brief.
“Why should the client have to write the design brief?” you might ask. Well, it’s a fair question. The answer is that they probably shouldn’t, it’s what we do More >
