Top 5 Tips to Increase Website Traffic

The more page views, the more there is a chance that new users will view your post. This is one of the main goals that web developers and administrators have for their websites. Check out the next top 5 tips to achive this goal and increase your website traffic.

The first tip is:

Content and Presentation

Create and maintain the content on your website or blog. The content that you write must actually be interesting for the user. The content must be presented in a way to not be difficult for the user to read and understand. Sometimes you find sites that aren’t made for users, but for search engines to increase their ranking. Having high quality content that is updated regularly and well presented will keep your customers coming back.

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SQL Server | Reset Identity Column

When you create a table in SQL Server, you would also have an Identity Primary Key. This type of key would increase as new rows are added. But sometimes you would just need to delete all the rows and start all over again.

To restart the identity column, you could delete the column and re-add it again. This would normally work, but if you have relations with the primary key, you wouldn’t be allowed to delete it.

The next code that will make this possible, and restart the Primary Key from 0, thus the new row will be set as 1: Continue reading »

blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog

The first thing that I needed to choose was to either store the blog under a subdomain (ie. blog.domain.com) or as a subdirectory (ie. domain.com/blog). Both of them have their advantages and disadvantages but the most important thing is the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Which is the best solution to use for your blog’s address?

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Why is a Blog Needed?

Business blogs can be a powerful marketing tool. When you blog about your products and brands, you’ll brand your company as authentic and knowledgeable. In my opinion you could start blogging as soon as you can even before you start your business. It takes a bit of time until search engines start indexing your pages.

Blogging is a relatively low cost activity that will add value to your business for a long time to come, and in many cases blogging alone can push your business to prosperity getting users to your site that wouldn’t normally come. Read more on how to blog and how to start…

Project Nine Blog Is Online

Project Nine Blog is online. Today it is just an introduction but from next Monday, 21st February, the real blogging starts.

Nine Blog is about helping people achieve more potential with their sites. The information I’ll be putting in this blog, will help Project NINE’s clients and anyone who has a website to market their website and increase its relevance in search engines. I’m sure I will be learning a lot from this new venture, and I will pass what I learned to you on this blog.

You’ll also find information about new Features being created for Project NINE users and how you can make the most of them. Plus you can add your own comments to inspire us for new features to add extra value to your own sites.

So go now and check out this blog today!

Project Nine Blog Launching Tomorrow

Project Nine’s Blog will launch tomorrow.

This blog will be about helping people achieve more potential with their sites. The information I’ll be putting in this blog, will help Project NINE’s clients and anyone who has a website to market their website and increase its relevance in search engines. I’m sure I will be learning a lot from this new venture, and I will pass what I learned to you on this blog.

You’ll also find information about new Features being created for Project NINE users and how you can make the most of them. Plus you can add your own comments to inspire us for new features to add extra value to your own sites.

So mark it in your calendar, and start reading to enhance yor site as from tomorrow!

WP7 Marketplace Browser

While surfing,  I found this great website showing all the latest applications that are available for Windows Phone 7 smart phones. You can go, browse and search the marketplace from here.

Something noteworthy of is that the WP7 marketplace is growing at a rate of about 400 apps per week, which is awesome.

Change Lightbox 0.5 Image Size

Update 2011: For those people who had problems with the below instructions.. please find in on my website here. And when you’re there take a look at my site and see what you think about it

Lightbox 2 has the functionality to set maximum width and height. But what about previous versions? To set the maximum image width and height for lightbox (version 0.5) you need to do some extra coding yourself. Open the jquery.lightbox-0.5.js file and search for the next pieces of code (in bold below):

    settings = jQuery.extend({
        maxWidth: null,
        maxHeight: null,
    ...

Then search for the next function (in bold) and write copy and paste the code underneath it: Continue reading »

ASP.Net 4.0 Validate Request

When creating a CMS sometimes you need to allow certain tags pass through the ASP.Net Validation. To allow tags be posted, in v2.0, you had to include the following tag in the page directive:

ValidateRequest="false"

But in .Net 4.0, this is not enough. You also need to include the next tag (httpRuntime) in the web.config file under <system.web>:

<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
<httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" />
</system.web>

There is also other information on Error validation in .Net 4.0 here

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