February 2005
Howdy, all! My name is Dan Thies, and I am your new SitePoint blogger for search engine marketing. I guess a brief introduction is in order. Who Is This Guy? I’ve been building and promoting... Read More
As a follow up on changing the default password, I was running an overall security audit on a number of systems I manage, as part of a monthly administrative routine. As many readers know I try to... Read More
Welcome to Key Words: SitePoint’s Search Engine Marketing Blog. We’re pleased to introduce expert search engine marketer Dan Thies, who’ll regularly bring you news, views, and... Read More
It seems that the endless stream of security problems combined with Firefox’s growing market share have finally had an effect: Bill Gates has announced plans for IE 7. There aren’t that... Read More
First up: as an in-house SitePoint’s PHP coder/waterboy, I’m stepping in for Harry as a guest blogger while he digs his way out from the February Zurich snowfall. Hopefully we’ll... Read More
Which is better: a Push or Pull CMS? Here, David argues the case for the Push CMS, outlining its benefits in terms of search engine-friendliness, facilitation of multi-server content publication,... Read More
In his book The Power of Simplicity, marketing guru Jack Trout challenges you to ride the right horse. Too many people want to build their own horse, when they can be even more successful (and take... Read More
The recent ruckus over MySQL on Windows was largely due to those who have installed the application and left the default root password untouched m(which in MySQL’s case – is no password... Read More
I’ve noticed there seems to have been a mini trend to using antique-looking wallpapers in some of the more stylish blogs about town lately. Of course, in theory most of the original patterns... Read More
From Tom Rutter, SitePoint’s community manager: “Java.com has been redesigned. The latest version of the JRE available at Java.com is now 1.5.0_01. The new design seems to put more... Read More
I stumbled across this useful little article from Jason Fried from last year on ‘Epicenter Design’ this morning. As Jason points out, it’s easy to get into the habit of starting a... Read More
Well, I’m back from the Walt Disney Cruise, freshly ill after coming into contact with 500 kids during cold and flu season. Still, the vacation was fantastic, and the Disney folks have lessons... Read More
Manipulate the CSS properties in your HTML documents using JavaScript -- it's an easy way to gain greater contol over your layouts and improve the usability of your content. Kennet explains, altering... Read More
Druware has released a Mac OS X installer with additional tools for PostgreSQL 8.01. The developer’s web site did not have the latest build – however – you can grab it at Version... Read More
