Justin Downey – Page 21

October 2011

Hide the WordPress Update Nag

Sometimes in developing themes and really cool functionality for clients’ Wordpress websites you’ll find yourself in a situation where updating Wordpress automatically is a REALLY bad idea. Maybe you toss and turn at night just thinking about what would happen if they click that little upgrade nag link at the top and it takes the whole site down–for hours. Chill. Here are two ways to hide the Wordpress update nag.

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September 2011

QR Codes Gone Too Far?

QR Codes, or quick response codes are a type of 2D bar code used by smart phones to scan and pull up a coded web address. In recent months, perhaps QR codes have gone too far… Let’s crack the QR code. These special bar codes can be scanned by any smart phone with a camera, …

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September 2011

Apple’s New CEO to Demo iPhone5

According to AllThingsD, Tuesday, Oct. 4th will be the day Apple will unveil the next iteration of the iPhone and who better to make the introduction to the world than their new CEO, Tim Cook.

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September 2011

Glam (Media) Buys Ning (Social)

Vertical media company, Glam Media, is acquiring Ning, the world’s largest platform for building white-labeled social networking sites, to diversify Glam’s revenue portfolio.

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September 2011

NoFollow Links Ruin PR for SEO

Things they are ‘a chang’n–particularly when it comes to using online press releases as an off-page SEO strategy. Looking at the metrics across the board online PR just isn’t generating the inbound links it once did. Could it be because of something called “nofollow links” and “pagerank bleed”? You bet!

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September 2011

New Digital Agency Model

Although the technology is nothing particularly new, the new Modular Digital Agency model addresses the specific needs of small businesses like never before. Industry experts see it as a step in the right direction.

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September 2011

HRmarketer’s 10th Anniversary

HRmarketer, the most widely used online marketing and PR service in the human resource marketplace, is celebrating their 10th year in business this October at the 14th annual HR Technology conference with a drawing to win one of two iPad 2s.

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September 2011

GoToMeeting Goes Mobile

GoToMeeting is a web-meeting service that allows unlimited online meetings for up to 15 people for about $50/month. Recently, GoToMeeting has gone mobile publishing two mobile apps (one for Android and one for Apple’s iOS for iPhone). What do the nerds at JDM think? Read on.

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September 2011

Thank you Akismet!

Webmasters, take a serious look at Akismet. Lord knows, you don’t need spambots posting comments and pingbacks that can hurt your SEO and credibility.

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August 2011

Recruiting with Riddles

Recruiting top talent is critical. As a digital agency, JDM is always on the lookout for talented developers and designers, but when we started looking into doing our own recruiting, the noise from applicants was deafening. Leave it to Google, to find a better way.

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August 2011

Google’s New Extended Sitelinks

Coveted by Webmasters the world over, Google’s Sitelinks have recently gotten a lot of attention. With the new, extended sitelinks, search engine results pages offer almost a full scroll to sitelinks. This has left SEO-ers and webmasters scrambling to find out how to get sitelinks on their site.

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August 2011

Do I need a CMS?

A common question we get from clients is do I need a content management solution (CMS) to help manage my corporate website? As a rule of thumb, we suggest any website that will likely receive more than 4 updates per month needs to be on some sort of CMS. However, it’s a little more complicated than just that. Let’s dive into the PROs and CONs of investing in a CMS for your corporate website.

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