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Do I Speak Your Language?
by Lee Turner on 19/05/10
in How To
I have to say up front that my skill with languages is very poor. It is something I have struggled with since I was at school when I sat in my French exam blankly staring at the examiner who was expecting me to impress him with some fluent expression of how nice the weather was (or something like that - I have blanked most of it out of my mind). However, one thing that I am pretty good at is testing and tracking different things on my sites.
If you have any kind of analytics package installed on your b2evolution blog, you will probably have more data than you know what to do with about how many visitors come to your site, how long they stay and the pages they visit etc. One of the things that interests me is looking at where the visitors to my site are coming from and Google Analytics has a very nice map overlay allowing you to pinpoint geographically where your visitors access your website from. You can also click on the map and drill down even further to individual cities and towns which is great if you are looking to target specific regions with any of your SEO effort.
Manage Your Meta Descriptions in b2evolution
by Lee Turner on 27/04/10
in How To
This question was sent to me via email and asked “How do I add unique meta description tags in b2evolution?”. You can either watch the video which shows you step by step how to do this or follow along by reading the post below the video.
Before we go into the specifics of how you manage your meta description tags in b2evolution it is important to say what they are and why you would want them in your HTML pages.
A few updates to the Frugal theme
by Lee Turner on 04/03/10
in Skins
This is just a short post to let you know that I have made a few updates to the b2evo 3.3.x version of the Frugal Theme. These are not really changes that you will see on the front end but more structural changes:
- Removed a duplicate ID so the theme is now xhtml compliant
- Change a few h1, h2 and h3 tags to make the structure of the pages a little better
None of these changes should effect the way the skin looks as all the css for the changed title tags have been updated to make them the same as before so this should be a drop in replacement for the previous version (unless you have made changes to the skin yourself). Please had on over to the Frugal Theme page and download the new version.
Best,
Frugal Theme updated to b2evolution 3.x
by Lee Turner on 10/02/10
in Skins
The Frugal Theme for b2evolution has gone through a major update in that is now supports the new b2evolution 3.x features like intro posts. You can see them in action at the top of the main page of this blog with my 'Subscribe to RSS or see me on twitter' box. This is basically an intro post. The skin now also uses skin settings to allow you to turn off post metadata and choose whether to display the b2evolution logo (the link back in the footer is always maintained)
If you are using the 2.4.x version of the Frugal theme on a 3.x install of b2evolution then I recommend you head over to the Frugal Theme page and download the new version.
Best,
Do you "Follow Up" or not?
by Lee Turner on 03/02/10
in How To, Skins
I was recently asked on twitter if there was a way to change the "Follow Up" text that appears in your post when create an extended post (see the demo site for an example of an extended post) I had never tried this so I thought I would have a play to see if it could be done.
It is possible but it isn't as easy as it sounds so I thought I would document it here for others to have a go. This was all done on a 3.x install of b2evolution and hasn't been tried or tested on any other version
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