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Creating a multilingual website using WordPress and WPML

Alfred Armstrong — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:53:37 +0000

How do you create a WordPress site in several different languages? We’ve been working on a new site recently which the client wants to appear in both English and French versions, so I needed to find a suitable plugin or plugins to make this possible. I’d previously heard good things about qTranslate so that was [...]

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Creating a multilingual website using WordPress and WPML

Tweet into Drupal: 3 ways to add Twitter updates to your site

Alfred Armstrong — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:44:51 +0000

Twitter is great, isn’t it? All those pithy thoughts you and your friends have on the bus or while watching TV can be instantly captured and sent to the world. But meantime your Drupal site is just sitting there quietly missing out on all the fun. It doesn’t have to be that way though: follow [...]

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Tweet into Drupal: 3 ways to add Twitter updates to your site

Backing up Tweets – now even easier and safer

Alfred Armstrong — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:03:51 +0000

We’ve updated the Twitter backup service Tweetake.com, created in partnership with Nikki Pilkington, to use Twitter’s safe sign-in protocol. Tweetake users no longer have to enter their usernames and passwords, and as a consequence the service is both easier to use and more secure. The “sign-in with Twitter” facility we have used is based on [...]

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Backing up Tweets – now even easier and safer

Moving your website to a new domain

Alfred Armstrong — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:22:36 +0000

Since we’ve just moved this site from one domain to another, I thought I’d write a quick few words about how we did it. Register and point the domain to your hosting. The hosting package we use (which we like so much we resell it), makes this an easy process. We bought the domain using [...]

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Moving your website to a new domain

Press release: Likemind is now Figure W

Alfred Armstrong — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:09:01 +0000

The press release about our change of name can be read on the following sites, all of which we would recommend as great services for spreading the word: UK Business Labs. Read: Likemind Web Services is now Figure W. Free Press Index. Read: Likemind Web Services is now Figure W. PRLog. Read: Likemind Web Services [...]

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Press release: Likemind is now Figure W

Bye, bye, Likemind …

Alfred Armstrong — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:24:33 +0000

We’ve changed our name! Likemind has become Figure W. Note the new logo and website URL. Along with the name change, you may notice some differences in the way we market ourselves, but we’ll still be providing the same high level of service and client satisfaction as in the past. If you have any comments [...]

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Bye, bye, Likemind …

Oh no! Our contact form is broken!

Alfred Armstrong — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:06:43 +0000

(It’s fixed now, I’m pleased to say) Having noticed we weren’t getting many enquiries through our contact form, I did a quick test this morning and to my dismay saw an error message on the CAPTCHA field, even though I’d typed it correctly. What could be going wrong? I began to suspect the probable cause [...]

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Oh no! Our contact form is broken!

Split testing Drupal

Use Split Testing to Improve a WordPress Theme

Alfred Armstrong — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:33:11 +0000

What’s the best colour for your headlines? If you make your contact form bigger will more people use it? Should a call to action be left- or right-aligned? If you are trying to make decisions like these about the design of your site, it can be hard to come to definite conclusions. Two designs may [...]

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Use Split Testing to Improve a WordPress Theme

Facebook, your Business Account policy is stupid

Alfred Armstrong — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:04:47 +0000

Facebook allows users to create “Business Accounts”. Having read the applicable terms, why any sane person would want to do this beats me. You may create a business account if you don’t already have a standard Facebook account. To get started, you will need to first create a Facebook Ad or Facebook Page. Once you’ve [...]

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Facebook, your Business Account policy is stupid

Drupal Localization and Internationalization

Alfred Armstrong — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:40:02 +0000

How do you build a site with content in more than one language? This article outlines the features of Drupal that will help you build a multilingual site. [An old, much more technical, article at this location was getting a lot of traffic from people looking for general information about Drupal localization, so I wrote [...]

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Drupal Localization and Internationalization