Posted on November 4th, 2008 by ToddS
Today’s hint or website suggestion contains two of our favorite things:
“free” and “improve web traffic”. I sat down this week and started what seemed like a gigantic task, to create a website for http://www.PikesPeakAtlas.com with close to 100 pages to it. While working on this I also started to consider how to get Google to see all of it in a timely fashion. Google loves sitemaps, but sitemaps are NOT written in conventional HTML usually, so I went looking for a site that could help.
XML Sitemaps – usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S – are a way for you to give Google information about your site. This is the type of Sitemap we’ll be discussing in this article.
In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website.
Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.
http://www.makeasitemap.com was just what I was looking for. It was super straight forward, gave me the simple options that I needed. Of course two of my favorite things about it is that it is FREE and WEB-BASED, no software to download.
This bookmark suggestion comes from:
Pete Van Vuren
http://www.pikespeakatlas.com
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Posted on March 25th, 2008 by ToddS
An excellent resource for helping you choose color combinations or sparking your creative juices.
You can find more information on this on my blog entry for COLOURlovers
::ToddS
DW Kickstart – Learn to build and market your own website
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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by ToddS
Sprout Builder allows you to create quick and simple widgets using their free development tool.
You can read a bit more on my blog or visit the Sprout Builder website.
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Learn to build and market your own website
www.dwkickstart.com
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Posted on March 20th, 2008 by ToddS
Creates and Edits Screenshots of Web Pages
Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.
Screenshots can be saved to disk (PNG, JPEG, BMP), copied to clipboard, e-mailed and sent to external editor for further processing.
::ToddS
Learn to build and market your own website
www.dwkickstart.com
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Posted on March 14th, 2008 by ToddS
Ever realized you needed a document that was on a different computer from the one you were on? With FolderShare, you can access your files from anywhere.
Keep all your files in sync
Use FolderShare to create a mirrored image of your most important folders – like your Favorites, Pictures, and Documents – so they’re the same on all your computers.
Sharing files is easier than ever
Sharing with friends, co-workers, and family is easy when you add and update files in a shared library. Large files? Not a problem – FolderShare can sync files up to 2 GBs in size. And it works on both Mac and PC.
Get to your files instantly when you’re away from home
Install FolderShare on all your computers, and you can access all your files from any computer on the Internet.
Visit Windows Live FolderShare
::ToddS
Learn to build and market your own website
www.dwkickstart.com
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