EditMe Blog: Tips and Tricks
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Tip of the Knows: Fun with Favicons, RSS and Edit Buttons
2008-06-30
Web sites can display an increasing variety of icons in a
browser's address bar by including special tags in the HEAD area of the
HTML document. You may have noticed that the main EditMe sites have
light bulb favicons. A favicon is an icon image associated with a web
site. Almost all modern browsers will display your favicon in the
toolbar or favorites/bookmarks menu. It's an easy and effective way to
add branding and visual appeal to your site. You may also notice that
this site displays an RSS icon in the toolbar (or elsewhere, depending
on your browser). You can link to your site's built in RSS feed to
display such an icon for visitors and encourage them to subscribe to
the site's feed. And just for wikis, a new "Edit This Page" icon is
gaining traction. This article shows you how to add all three of these
to your EditMe site. Read the full post...
Tip of the Knows: Search Engine Optimization (Part 3 of 3)
2008-04-24
This is the last of a three part series on getting your EditMe
site ranked well in the search engines. The first post discussed
keyword selection and the second
covered content optimization. What's left? Your link strategy. This
post talks about what a link strategy is and offers tips for building
and maintaining yours. Read the full post...
Tip of the Knows: Search Engine Optimization (Part 2 of 3)
2008-04-17
Earlier this week I posted part one of a three part series on
optimizing your EditMe site for search engines. This second installment
covers content optimization, including page names, keyword usage and
linking. Read the full post...
Tip of the Knows: Search Engine Optimization (Part 1 of 3)
2008-04-14
Many customers ask what they can do to maximize their site's placement
in the search engines. This topic is commonly called SEO (search engine
optimization) in the industry, and there is no shortage of opinions and
advice out there. In fact, there is a highly competitive market of
consulting companies dedicated to the pursuit of getting sites on the
first page of search results. This
is the first of a three-part post outlining a simple three-step search
engine optimization process that can be implemented within your EditMe
site (or any other site, for that matter). No expensive consulting fees required. Read the full post...
2008-01-25Tip of the Knows: Updates for new Layouts
Two of the more popular Tips have been updated for the new JavaScript
layouts and the newer Newton skins. Previously these tips were specific
to the legacy XSL layouts and the Brighton skins. The updated tips are:
2007-08-29
Tip of the Knows: New Flash Tutorials
We've recently released three Flash-based tutorials that cover EditMe's
content management features, the editor in-depth, and access controls
options. These are mostly aimed at new and prospective customers, but
can also be helpful tutorials for existing customers. The tutorials can
be accessed at EditMe Product Tours.
2007-07-31
Tip of the Knows: Format Your Site with CSS
EditMe's editor allows several text formatting options, such as the
ability to set the font, size and color of text. We've found these
features are used most heavily by our least technical users, as they
provide a simple way to attractively format content on the page. But,
as some of our customers have found, these "one-off" formatting tricks
have drawbacks. This tip discusses how you can use CSS to centralize,
standardize, and simplify the formatting on your site to avoid these
drawbacks.
Read the full post...
Tip of the Knows: Google AdSense
2007-07-16
AdSense is a service from Google that pays you for advertisements
clicked on your site. Advertisers pay Google every time someone clicks
their ad, and Google gives you a cut for hosting the ad on your site.
Luckly, adding Google Ads to your EditMe site is easy. Google offers
three ways to monetize your site... Read the full post...
2007-06-06
Tip of the Knows: Host Videos On Your Site
Many customers have asked how they can display video content on their
EditMe site. This Tip of the Week covers a few different options for
hosting local video and streaming remotely hosted video on your site. Read the full article...
2007-05-15Tip of the Knows: Site Header Logo
By default, EditMe displays the title of your site (which you can
modify in Site Settings) in a box at the top of every page. See the big
"EditMe Demo Site" text at the top of the demo site for an example.
Many customers want to replace this text with an image logo or banner
of their own. In this Tip of the Week, we'll show you how. Read the full article...
2007-04-10Tip of the Knows: Calendar Integration
This
week, we look at two easy ways to slap a dynamic calendar into your
site. Two of the leading free calendar services are covered: Google
Calendar and 30Boxes. Read the full article...
2007-03-29 Tip of the Knows: The Power of Groups and Policies
EditMe
provides the most powerful access controls in the business, but all
this power comes with some complexity. This week's tip provides a
thorough treatment of the mechanisms behind EditMe's access controls
and a complete example of how the Groups and Policies features can be
used in a real world scenario. Using these techniques may allow you to
use your EditMe site in ways you had not imagined before. Read the full article...
2007-02-09
Tip of the Knows: Includes and Access Control
This week's
tip is a follow up to last week's Tip about includes. A particularly
useful combination of includes and page-level access controls allows
you to have parts of a page display for some users and not display for
others. This is often used in Menu pages, hiding a section of the menu
that links to pages that have restricted view access, or for notes that
should only be seen by administrators. Read the full article.
2007-01-02Tip of the Knows: Using Includes
Have
you used EditMe's include feature? It's one the features that make
EditMe unique. Includes allow content on your site to be reused in
multiple areas, but managed in only one. Read the full article.
