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Designing for Drupal
Along with the adoption of Drupal as LevelTen’s recommended CMS/development framework, comes the need for best practices for Drupal design themes. Whether the design theme is pre-designed or is created from scratch, there are several things to keep in mind. LevelTen has some advice that can be extended to designers, developers, and management teams, when choosing a template or custom designing for Drupal or a similar CMS platform.
Simply Syncplicity
Download Syncplicity to easily synchronize, backup and share files.
Search Engine Optimization Page Factors
Overview
The goal of search engine optimization (SEO) is to implement targeted keyword phrases into a website in an effort to reach a high rank on a search engine results page (SERP) for those keyword phrases. Once you know what keywords you want to focus on, the next step is to embed the targeted phrases in your site's pages. Effective techniques for doing this are called page factors optimization.
How Search Engines See Your Site
Search Engine Marketing 101
When people want to find something on the Internet, they use a search engine. Millions of searches are conducted every day using search engines such as: Google, Yahoo!, MSN and many others. Some people are looking for your website. How do you capture people searching for what your site has to offer? Through techniques called search engine marketing (SEM).
What Exactly is the Google Search Wiki?
What is Google Search Wiki?
If you happened to use Google last night, you might have noticed a few changes to the search interface. There are now 3 buttons that users can use to promote, remove, or comment on a particular search listing.
Goals and Requirements
Each successful Web site development project begins with a goal in mind: for example, to gain exposure, to increase efficiency, or to do something better via the Internet. Coupled with this motivation is a set of perceived needs that the Web site could fulfill.
Our initial task of scenario making is an informal activity specifying goals, functionality, audience, and conditions of use. Then, in a more formal process, we develop the requirements needed and measurable/attainable goals which can be used to track the effectiveness of our work.
Where to Direct for Powerful Directories
Directory submission has been one of the more popular and easy, excluding having to pay, methods of getting high Google Page Rank, one way links to your web site. However, in the past few years the SEO weight given to many directories has suffered due to changing algorithms, market saturation, and fluctuating page ranks. While some directories have fallen off in their back linking effectiveness, several have been able to maintain their page rank, even strengthen that page rank and site power over the years.
Effective Usability: The Real Deal
Any web designer will tell you that usability is at the top of their list, but as a designer it is common to focus on aesthetics first and usability second. This mistake is important to acknowledge because it is creating a barrier between “aesthetically pleasing” sites and “functional” sites. As designers, we have to remember we design usability. Below is a list of 8 steps designers should take to ensure site usability:
Modules we are waiting for in Drupal 6
LevelTen has shifted almost all development to Drupal 6. Drupal 6 offers more features and more elegant ways approaching solutions. However there are still some modules that do not have stable Drupal 6 releases. Here is a list of modules we keep waiting for,
Spam flagging
Abuse (in dev)
Flag Content (in dev)
How to Make a Link with Words that Help You Rank
Hyperlinks, or links, are one crucial backbone to the Internet.
If you have been online for more than a few years, you are
most likely very familiar with copying and pasting the URL
in the browser to send to friends, family, or colleagues to places of
interest online. You are definitely familiar with clicking on those "little
blue words" leading to other parts of a website or to a completely different
website.
Most of the time your email provider, and many community sites out there (blogs,