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Some Opencart questions answered

Jan 12, 2011

We recently received some questions regarding the Opencart ecommerce websites beginners tutorial video that we created. They are sensible questions so it makes sense to share the answers. What are meta and data tags? What is an SKU? what is a SEO keyword? Where do I get weight codes?

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Updates to the Twitter RSS feed

Updates to the Twitter RSS feed

Jan 09, 2011

The twitter RSS feed on the home page is going to be removed. The Home Page loading time has increased quite dramatically and this is an issue with page loading times an important SEO consideration. The course of action: implement a cached RSS feed reader for external feeds.

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Editing and creating images using GIMP

Jan 09, 2011

The Gimp image editing and illustration program is extremely powerful. It enables the user to not only make professional edits to photos, but to also create their own vector graphics. Photoshop features such as the content aware rescale can also be incorporated into the gimp through free plugins.

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How to create pages with custom url aliases using php, mysql, and htaccess

Jan 09, 2011

This is a small guide on how to create a website where the url of pages can be custom defined within a database. This is often known as managing the url alias.

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