TXP, PrettyPhoto and Innerfade
You may have noticed that I am using a few image effects around the site these days. I’ve been using them a lot with some of the WP ports I’ve been doing lately which is how I came across PrettyPhoto and Innerfade.
PrettyPhoto can produce a light-box for your images. It can also handle a variety of video sources. You can see it in action with “Vimeo” here.
Innerfade can be used to produce a gallery as well as “fade” effects.
They are both very easy to set up using a separate script file to make the calls to each main script.
First thing to do [...]
TXP and SEO Part 2
In the first article on TXP and SEO I discussed the use of a form containing textpattern tags to create dynamic <title></title> and <h1></h1> tags. I’m now going to discuss the use of forms to create dynamic <meta description /> and <meta keywords /> tags but before I do that let me quickly mention the use of sitemaps specifically designed for Google.
Google Sitemaps
Using a sitemap helps Google to index your site and can contain only those parts of your site that you want indexing. With the sitemap in place you can also use the on-line Google tools to see how each page ranks, [...]
TXP and SEO
“What’s SEO?” I hear you saying. It stands for Search Engine Optimisation and is the term given to the art of making your site more “search engine friendly”.
There are a number of ways of doing this and most of them can be placed under a heading of “Cheating”. I won’t bother discussing those here as many of the search engine bots are getting clever and ignoring them. Instead I will describe 2 methods which can both be used together and which are not “cheating”.
They use an identical method but one is used for the <title> element in the <head> of your page and the [...]
