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Friday

13 April

2012

4.44p

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Spring is here! And so is GregsLandscaping.com

FYI => Launched! Honest, clean & thorough, just like the GL brand itself, this ExpressionEngine driven website showcases Gregs Landscaping’s’ full range of services.

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Friday

20 August

2010

6.04p

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A GL Milestone (of Sorts)

Just finished up meeting with GL. Covered the long overdue Intro to ExpressionEngine lesson.

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Friday

13 August

2010

8.55a

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Getting Back in the GL Groove

Unfortunately, too much of my yesterday was filled with unanticipated attention grabbers.

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Monday

9 August

2010

7.43p

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Quickie GL Update

Got the Testimonial, FAQ and Links channels in place and working within the Service page layout.

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3.50p

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Images Folder Structure and SEO

If image file names matter for SEO, so must the file structure that holds them, right?

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Sunday

8 August

2010

9.54a

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On the Prowl for Icons

Bookmarked => “50 Social Service and Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers” on SpeckyBoy.com.

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Thursday

5 August

2010

5.49p

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EE 2.x: User-defined Global Varibles vs Snippets

Word to the wise, be sure to read both pages of the ExpressionEngine docs.

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2.40p

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ExpressionEngine 2.x: Snippets

Snippets are new to EE. Simple and highly effective. They’ve come at just the right time.

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11.27a

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ExpressionEngine: Low’s Seg2Cat Extension

Low’s Seg2Cat is a must have in anyone’s EE tool box. Love it!

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Wednesday

4 August

2010

12.39a

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Passing PHP Varibles Between EE Templates

While I didn’t necessarily expect otherwise, the PHP $_SESSION variable does the trick. There’s one subtle catch.

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Tuesday

3 August

2010

3.57p

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ExpressionEngine 2.x Channel Parameters Quirk

It looks like there’s a slight quirk in how EE processes the channel parameters category vs category_group

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Monday

2 August

2010

5.36p

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ExpressionEngine 2.1.x Is Lookin’ Good

GL is my first site with ExpressionEngine 2.1.x. The fact that EllisLabs is able to deliver so much CMS for less than $300 is mind boggling.

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4.10p

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Max Length of Page Meta Title & Description

SEO is always a moving target. Looks like a good rule of thumb for Meta Title and Meta Description length is…

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