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    • Jeff Todnem - Search-friendly URLs

      During the planning stages for the new Beta version of the site, one of our priorities was to optimize the site for search engines (SEO) as well as make the site more user friendly from a URL perspective. The new design supports a multitude of search-friendly parameters in a variety of combinations, making it easier and quicker for members to locate items based on parameters they specify in the address bar. See the list below for details on which parameters can be used and their...

    • Jeff Todnem - Tagging Items

      A tag is simply a word or phrase that is used to describe one or more themes within your content. It is a way of cataloging actual or conceptual references within your text, so that your content can be easily retrieved in the future.

      To use an analogy, tags are designed to work similarly to the index of a book. Tags, like the book index, allow you to find content related to specific terms. The only difference is that with tags, you don't need to know which page the content is on...

    • Jeff Todnem - Adding Images to Content

      Registered members who are logged into the site can add and modify content. Once you have uploaded or imported images to the site, you will have the option of inserting these images into your textual content using the Rich Text Editor (RTE) provided. This feature is not available if the member has disabled the RTE option under their account settings.

      Once you have an editor window open and you're ready to add an image, just click on the Insert Image buttonon the editor toolbar to open...

    • Jeff Todnem - Searching the Site

      FYI...

      In case any of you have already tried the Search feature and had difficulties getting the results you wanted, I've added a new Help document that includes some hints on how to narrow your results to exactly what you're looking for. You can either find it under the Help section with the title of"Search Tips", or you can simply hover your mouse over the Search box and a quick link for"Search Tips" will show up. Click this link to view some helpful tips and tricks for searching...

    • Jeff Todnem - Search Tips

      As of the current version of this help document, the Search function retrieves results based on the page you are on. For example, if you are on the Posts portion of the site, it will apply your query to all the posts in the database vs. if you were viewing Images, it would search all images in the database.

      To answer your question, the search capability supports the following operators:

      Operator Function no operator

      By default (when neither + nor - is specified) the word...

    • Jeff Todnem - Tag Clouds - Just Another Blogging Bonus

      If you've been following the recent progress of the site, you may have noticed a new feature that is now available after clicking on the"view blogs by..." button. I am slowly adding in more ways to make searching for blogs both easy and fun. The latest of these features is known as a"tag cloud" in Internet-speak. A tag cloud is essentially a collection of words or phrases that are specifically mentioned within, or related to, a blog entry. The tags are listed in alphabetical order and the...

    • Jeff Todnem - What Happened to All the Blogs??

      Well some of you late nighters may have just been sitting in great anticipation of the July-August rollover. It wasn't all that spectacular so don't worry if you missed it. If anyone did happen to be up and attempted to access the Blogs you might have noticed an apparent lack of entries. This is by design... poor design. I realized very quickly that some more changes are required to make this ideal. For now, I have eliminated the Month tag so you'll continue to see any posts from the year...

    • Jeff Todnem - Themes, Skins and Other Options
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      Okay, so I have a new idea that may work better than simply suggesting color combos. I have yet to actually try this out and see if it works, but I believe the concept will indeed succeed. Instead of trying to get you guys to send or describe colors I have decided to simply let you choose. And by"choose" I don't mean just a few colors, I mean choosing how the entire site looks and feels. The plan (right now) is to create a page (possibly as part of your account settings or maybe completely...

    • Richard Todnem - Tagging Items
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      A tag is simply a word or phrase that is used to describe one or more themes within your content. It is a way of cataloging actual or conceptual references within your text, so that your content can be easily retrieved in the future.

      To use an analogy, tags are designed to work similarly to the index of a book. Tags, like the book index, allow you to find content related to specific terms. The only difference is that with tags, you don't need to know which page the content is on...