Useful Links
Search Engine Optimisation SEO
Submitted by Sinéad on Wed, 23/09/2009 - 10:39
Here is a very hand list of SEO best and worst practices for designing a high traffic site; a handy check list:
http://www.webconfs.com/15-minute-seo.php.
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Web Trends: Mega Drop Down Menus
Submitted by Shane on Wed, 01/04/2009 - 16:33
According to Sitepoint these are going to be the next BIG web trend.
Rightly or wrongly I'm not a big fan of drop down menus normally, I know I know we have some on our site! but these new Mega Drop Downs can look very stylish, well in some cases, and more importantly they actually look as if they'll make it easier to navigate sites!!! which is where old fashioned drop downs fall ... eh ... well down really.
Site Point on Mega Drop Down Menus
Here's a nice example of them in action:
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Postcard Art Fundraiser
Submitted by Sinéad on Wed, 25/03/2009 - 17:13
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Sexual Violence Centre Postcard Art Fundraiser
Thursday 26th March, 5pm - 9pm
You may find yourself with a card created by a well known artist, a media personality, or someone on the way to being so. The artist name will be discovered after the purchase. All postcards cost e50.
There are some amazing pieces - check out a selection of them at the website: www.sexualviolence.ie
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Tips to using Twitter
Submitted by Shane on Thu, 05/02/2009 - 19:08

More great tips from my favorite on line Web Design magazine. This time they're talking about how to use Twitter. Worth a read if you're thinking of having a Twitter account for you or your business.
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'AddThis' Social Bookmarking
Submitted by Sinéad on Wed, 04/02/2009 - 13:09
Why Use AddThis?
- Easy Bookmarking and Sharing - Makes it easy for your visitors to bookmark and share your content with others.
- Promotes Your Website/Blog - Helps send your content to social bookmarking services and social networks, which brings back more traffic to you.
- Increases Your Rankings - Increases your link popularity, which is a very important factor in increasing search engine rankings.
- Recognizable Interface - Users will know what the button does and how to use it.
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Adding Site Maps
Submitted by Shane on Thu, 22/01/2009 - 16:06

Useful site for formatting sitemaps, handy for submitting sitemaps to Google
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php
Also there's a Drupal Module for creating automatic Sitemaps that update to google everytime you update the site. However this is not quite ready for Drupal 6 yet.
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Web Safe Fonts
Submitted by Shane on Thu, 22/01/2009 - 11:36
Here's a list from Wikipedia of the Web Safe Fonts.
Also an external links of fonts that can be used on Websites.
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Dynamic Theming in Drupal
Submitted by Shane on Thu, 22/01/2009 - 10:26

As you all know by now, Drupal is our favorite content management system. It just does more then your average CMS. Anyways, here's a very useful tutorial about theming in Drupal, especially if you want to Use Multiple Templates:
http://www.packtpub.com/article/dynamic-theming-in-drupal6-part1
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