RedDot CMS Character encoding issues
One of the most annoying issues that surface after you have delivered a site (and users start creating pages and entering content) are the appearance of characters that don’t display correctly. Learn how to handle character encoding issues within your RedDot CMS projects.
Why you should be using a baseline RedDot CMS project
Regardless of what CMS you use (RedDot CMS, Drupal, Sitecore etc) you should have a ‘baseline’ project in place that is regularly maintained. Think of a baseline project as a ‘starting point’ for the development of a new project.
RedDot & 301 Redirects: How to manage 301′s within your RedDot CMS projects
The use of 301 Redirects within your RedDot CMS projects will help you to maintain current search rankings for an existing site, particularly if the site structure has gone under the knife!
Xmas festivities
Back home in Radelaide for Xmas.. It’s been a 2 year absence on the wheels of steel, looking forward to catching up a lot of familiar faces over the holiday break!
RedDot and Usability: How to make your RedDot CMS projects easier to use for authors
CMS projects that are simple and easy to use not only reduce the amount of time required for content changes, they will also minimize possibilities of content entry mistakes and/or inconsistencies across site pages.
Look ma, I won!!
Many thanks to the guys from Solution Exchange (particularly Danny Baggs) for hooking up the iPad giveaway at www.solutionexchange.info as a 'danging carrot' to attract likeminded developers, consultants and agencies to contribute the Open Text Web Site Management (aka RedDot) community at large.
December Gigs – Wax Musuem Jam, Boogie Bash#3 and Section8
Catch me this month spinning at the following shows:
17th December - Wax Museum Records Jam,
11th December - Boogie Bash #3,
11th December - Section 8
How to incorporate SEO best practises within RedDot CMS projects
Unfortunately there isn’t any fancy plugins or in-built functionality within RedDot that will automatically optimise your site for SEO. But don’t worry, making your site 'SEO Friendly' is relatively straight forward and easy to do!
Online Marketer SEO Boot-Camp seminar highlights
I had the opportunity to attend the Online Marketer SEO Boot-Camp seminar (16-17th November), as part of SMX Melbourne 2010. Although only a 1 and half day seminar, they managed to cover a hell of a lot of ground – from the basics of SEO, link building and keyword selection, local search and Google Places...
RedDot CMS Navigation Manager Basics
Navigation Manager is a powerful tool that will not only simplify the structure of your projects and significantly reduce dev time.
The following is a step-by-step guide which will provide you with the basics on how to incorporate the Navigation Manager into your CMS projects.
RedDot CMS Plugin: Delete Unlinked Pages
Deleting mulltiple pages from a project can be very time consuming - and I tend to do it quite often! This plugin should save you a lot of time deleting pages (especially if the site has hundreds or even thousands of unwanted pages).
RedDot CMS Plugin: Connect to Multiple Elements in Clipboard
It’s plugin time again folks!
This little script enables you to copy/connect multiple elements from one content class to another. It should save developers out there a considerable amount of time when you need to make changes to multiple templates within an existing project, or when you need to copy the elements from one template to...
Kim Dezen is a Senior RedDot CMS (Open Text Web Solutions) CMS Consultant, Developer and Freelancer. Part time DJ and obsessed music / vinyl junkie. This site is my personal blog for all things related to Red Dot, SEO/SEM and Web Development.
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