Latest Website Design Project

I’m nearing completion (I think!) on a website design project for Liverpool based sandwich shop Maxwells Sandwiches. There’ll be a few tweaks needed here and there but it’s certainly time to let the search engines spider the site. I think the site layout works well and we’ve included an embedded map and an online order form for business buffet lunches.

The client provided the base content in the form of a Microsoft Publisher project – as I couldn’t access the files with any other program (pain!) I had to download a trial copy of Publisher to get at the content.

The domain name was already registered in this instance and as we’ve agreed a simple, monthly pay-as-you-go arrangement, we simply updated the domain nameservers to point at my hosting server.

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Issue With rel=”me nofollow”

I’m going to make the effort (again) to use twitter so I’m tweaking my account. I’ve just read a post by Dave Naylor about plonking a URL into your twitter bio to gain a backlink – good tip! The standard web link in your profile is nofollowed but if like me you use the SEO for Firefox add-on, that no-followed link won’t appear in red to indicate such. I’m presuming this is because twitter uses the html code rel=”me nofollow”. I don’t know what the me attribute does though – maybe it’s specific to twitter?

Wordpress 2.6 Upgrade Update

I mentioned a day or so ago about the general release of wordpress 2.6 and how I was going to upgrade a little site of ours. Well I did do the upgrade (..you can guess where this is heading!) but I encountered a couple of problems. The first was nothing to do with wordpress but an issue with my host server settings that was causing my automatic backup to fail. So I upgraded to 2.6 manually and had a couple of issues. A couple of very useful plugins I use reported warnings (Joost de Valk has now addressed these). Also the wordpress admin dashboard was incorrectly reporting that I only had 1 active plugin.

I like the way 2.6 lets you activate multiple plugins in one go and also presents them in groups of active and inactive. Other than that though I didn’t get around to checking out the new features. As it was easy to do in this case I’ve reverted back to 2.5.1 for now until the dust settles.

How about you? Have you moved to 2.6 without any issues?

Wordpress 2.6 Is Released

I see that wordpress 2.6 is now available for general release. I gather that the developers have improved the way you maintain your plugins so I’m looking forward to seeing how that hangs together. You can now also track changes made to posts and pages and I think that’ll be useful too. And theme previews is long overdue!

I don’t normally jump right in and upgrade until the dust has settled but on this occasion I think I might try it out on a quiet site of mine. But first off I’ve got to resolve why the backup plugin isn’t working on my existing installation …backups being a kinda good idea. You do take backups don’t you?