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Archive for May, 2008

Open Realty … for free listings management

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Building my websites | No Comments »

Get into property .. or realty! Four of my websites are made using a php/open source application called Open Realty. Open Realty is described as a: ... free web based listing management application. It is intended to be both easy to setup and ...

A picture paints a thousand words … finding images for your website

Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites, Great new URLs | No Comments »

In the picture One of the problems I've come up against whilst putting together my sites is that of obtaining decent pictures where I don't have anything suitable in my own collection. It's important that any images used are copyright free - ...

Getting your website seen … addthis.com links

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Great new URLs | No Comments »

All the rage A new web 2.0 trend that I've been a bit slow to catch up on has been social bookmarking ... but I've made up for it now by placing links on all my sites. Everywhere you go these days, ...

E107 … a CMS system with bells on it!

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites, Stuff passed on by friends | 1 Comment »

Great websites avoiding HTML You'll have already worked out that I'm a big user of Fantastico and PHP scripts, but a friend recently discovered a new php/CMS system which ist't available via Fantastico ... it's called E107. CMS means 'Content Management System' ...

Creating a Google sitemap the easy way

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites | No Comments »

Use a map! I've said in an earlier blog that my 10 key websites are nearing technical completion and I'm beginning to think seriously now about how I get them 'out there' and discovered. What's very clear to me from everything I've ...