Something in the latest X-Cart community newsletter caught my eye, and I’m not just talking about the questionable grammar. They were happy to announce launching a service to bring Products from an X-Cart store in to a Facebook tab. The service isn’t free, but (if it is easy to manage,) the benefit of being able to market products to all 500 million+ Facebook users, and link out to your eCommerce site, should more than pay for itsef.
Hello world, my name is Ian (pronounced “eye-yen”). I am a busy guy ’round these parts at Ninthlink. But I wanted to give a quick intro on who I am and what you can expect from me.
I think I might’ve gone link happy, but I have to hook you in some how right?
Sure, it crashed in the end, but that’s just a case of needing better steering (maintenance!). What’s important is that passion led to a vision and a goal, which led to careful planning, convertible into attainable, measurable assignments (wheels, a large deck, etc.). It wasn’t about the money, it was about the joy and success. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of this?
I’ve encountered a lot of challenging situations as a PHP programmer, from the big things (creating and optimizing complex applications that access millions of rows of data) to the smaller things (figuring out where to put more reminders after I’ve run out of room for post-its on my monitors). One of the problems I face most often is trying to explain to people what I do for a living. Generally, I just answer with “I’m a programmer” and people drop the subject. Who really wants to hear about code in a social situation? A small percentage of people are not deterred by this, however, and will ask for more details. This is where it gets tricky. Saying that I’m a web programmer is true, but makes most people think I write HTML. The truth is that even though much of our world runs on PHP, most people have absolutely no idea what it is. So here’s a crash course:
HTML by itself is what we call static. That means that it will look the same each time you see it. The only way to change the information on the page is to go in and change the actual file. This is great for simpler websites or websites that don’t need to change their information very often. Some websites require more functionality, however. That’s where PHP comes in. READ MORE
I have a new hero in architecture. Samuel Mockbee created a philosophy for not only teaching architecture but showing his students how to build and how to make a difference in the community you live in. He Created a school call “The Rural Architecture.” There is a great documentary on his life and the amazing effect he left on the world.
Last year, Google announced their plans to the world for creating a service that would deliver all of the most up to date and relevant content about a particular topic from across the web, in real- time, right into your search results. Today, this has become even more of a reality with the launch of Google Realtime.
If going from a ridiculously distant 2nd and 3rd place ranking for total search traffic to simply a distant 2nd is viewed as a success, then congratulations are in order for Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo!. As of August 24, Bing is now powering all of Yahoo’s North American searches.
By now most people know the importance of search engines in regards to driving traffic to a particular site and the results listings are based on a site’s content and relevancy to a user’s initial search. If you are new to SEO practices, here is a good article on the Top 10 SEO Mistakes people tend to make.
For those who would like to get the benefits out of Search Engine Marketing, but don’t have the time or patience to wait for results to occur organically/naturally via SEO, a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign may be the option for you.
Thursday, 19th 2010 @ 6:30 PM you are Invited to Join Founder, Jeromy Stallings, in a discussion and presentation on Internet Marketing Strategies to help you promote and grow your business. If you, or anyone you know is interested in learning many of strategies that Ninthlink has been using to achieve huge results online – then please send them this blog post.
What you will be learning at Discussion tomorrow night to help your business, team & company
Additionally, curator of Survey Select and Marketing leader Mark Murphy will provide a learning experience of 5 techniques that will be sure to get you noticed both online & offline.
Location of Event
Survey Select – Art Exhibition
1440 Imperial Ave (Corner of 14th & Imperial)
San Diego, CA 92101
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