Sitepoint are giving away free copies of Patrick Lenz’s Ruby on Rails book for the next month.
We’ve recently been getting into Ruby & Rails here and so far it’s impressive. As you know, I’m not a programmer but from talking with the team they like the simplicity of the coding and the speed at which they can develop. Now more web hosts are supporting the language it seems a
Free Ruby & Rails Book From Sitepoint
My One Wish From the SEO Genie
Well I’d be severely tempted to ask for Jim Boykins secret SEO tools, accurate backlink counts or less FUD. In the end though I think I’d just ask for more competition in the search engines.
Now don’t get me wrong, I think Google have done some amazing things to advance the web, they have a
IMNY Charity Party at SMX Social Media Expo
Just a quick blog to help publicise the IMNY Charity Party taking place at the SMX Social Media Expo in New York next week. The event will be raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. IMNY Charity Party sponsored by Best of the Web We are happy to welcome the attendees of the SMX Continue reading →
Technical Tips on Connecting WordPress Functions to Web 1.0 Sites
I’ve just read a great post by Marty Weintraub over at AimClear, where he describes how to bolt on a copy of WordPress to your old Web 1.0. site to bring it up to date. This is something we have often done here at e3internet but I wanted to expand a little on this point Continue reading →
Get your e-commerce PCI compliant or face fines
As SEO/SEM consultants we deal with a lot of e-commerce so this issue came onto my radar a little while ago. It’s not current news but it seems a lot of web folk are unaware of the issue to date. The banks and credit card companies are pushing a new compliance level for all businesses Continue reading →
Opera visit us in Russia
We had the pleasure of hosting the first ever Opera Backstage Conference in Russia last week. The Opera browser is very popular over here in Russia and they currently have around 12-14% market share (compared against 3% for Firefox). That was fairly evident in the reception they got. If you’ve been away from Opera or Continue reading →
Free PDF guide on web site accessibility
If you think this topic just addresses those with obvious disabilities then think again – accessible web sites let every visitor use your web site more intuitively. Quite simply that translates into more sales. From my own experience, accessible sites are also kinder on the dumbest, simplest user out there – the search engine spider. Continue reading →
Moscow – most expensive city in the world
As reported in The Times today, Moscow has overtaken Tokyo and London to become the most expensive city in the world. The Russian capital was found to be the costliest city on the planet by Mercer, the human resource consultants, who said that it was 12 per cent dearer to live in than London and Continue reading →
Making money from online communities
If you are looking for something a tad more advanced than “click my ads†then head over to Webmaster Radio tonight for Shoemoney’s slot: How To Monetize Community Websites Traffic with Lee Dodd Lee Dodd, owner of Sprint Users and other large forums has agreed to be on the show this week. Lee has mastered Continue reading →
Sphere blog search launched
Sphere, a new blog search engine got launched yesterday. With 19m blogs out there and growing it’s a valuable niche. On first appearances, its got a good design and cool URL but lets face it – they aren’t the first in this arena. What makes them different? Well they are trying to rank with reference Continue reading →
