June, 2011
Below are links to articles posted in June, 2011
User Targeted Content with Drupal: Device Geolocation
Targeted content towards a specific user based on their personal information is the holy grail of website marketing. Most, if not all, large ecommerce sites have some form of targeted content implemented to make the site more relevant to its visitors.
Pay-Per-Click Ads: Better Ad Copy Means Better Performance
Lead copy (above the embedded video): A client of ours called me today for a quick branstorming session on why his paid Google ads weren’t generating any clicks. He owns a Dallas vintage furniture store and sells his products online as well. Turns out, the answer was simple:
Build a Drupal 7 Content Type Search Block in 5 Easy Steps
I recently had a need for a search form in a sidebar, that would search a specific content type. Since the content type I needed to search for was already indexed by the search module, I wanted to stick with core drupal searching
Re-Inspire Yourself for Creative Side Projects
I started an animated short film with a while back and to be honest, the project, although having started strong, has lost most of it’s momentum.
5 Steps to Better On-Page Optimization Using Scribe SEO Analyzer For Drupal
The process of optimizing a web page is, for many bloggers, entrepreneurs, and business owners, a frightening proposition. This is often due to poor research of targeted keywords, lack of using those keywords in your web page copy, the absence of alternate keywords, and not testing how a web page will look in search engine results.
The Scary World of Data Migration… From HTML Pages to Drupal 7
I recently was faced with a project where the client has a “database” of items that will be brought into the brand new Drupal 7 site that we are preparing for him. Come to find out, this “database” was actually about 2,500 html documents. In order to extract the data from these html docs, I needed 3 things:
