Here’s a nice article on SEO that I got from the SitePro Newsletter from my email. It was written by Bhaskar Thakur.

Most of the time when we pitch to a new client we are asked for SEO guarantees. “Your competition has guaranteed top results and submission to 100,000 Search Engines and Directories”. We go all out educating clients that Search Engine Optimization is all about smart work and not just adding random keywords and submittíng to every directory possible. I’m writing this article to reach out to the SEO buyers and help them distinguish the crooks from the genuine SEO cos. I’ve compiled my Search marketing experience over the years in this article. I hope this helps you in selecting your Search Marketing initiative.

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I just discovered that some plugins are screwing my the wysiwyg editor and image uploader so i deactivated them. The following plugin will have conficts if your using Wordpress 2.5+.

• WP-Contact Form - this will conflict you image uploading on post editors
• Add_Lightbox or Lightbox2 plugin or the likes - this will freeze you post editor and you can’t switch from HTML to Visual editor.

I hope this would help some of you who are experiencing the same problems.

I would like to greet all the mothers out there a “Happy Mother’s Day!” to all of you

Amidst some bugs that drives me crazy (can’t upload to images to posts, No WYSYWYG editor, etc.) , I had no choice but to upgrade Wordpress from 2.5 to 2.5.1 using Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. So far this plugin has really save me a lot of trouble backing up my database, wordpress files and downloading the newest installation files. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you who wanna do web developing on Ubuntu, here are some step by steps on how to install XAMPP on Ubuntu.

1.) Download and installing XAMPP on Ubuntu.
Download the latest version by going to
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html

Now you should be having xampp-linux-x.x.xx.tar.gz file in your downloaded location

Go to a Linux shell and login as root:

$su -

Extract the downloaded archive file to /opt

tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.5.5a.tar.gz -C /opt

XAMPP is now installed below the /opt/lampp directory.
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