Website Marketing Blog - Jasper Kooij

Sometimes things just make sense - a GTD Approach

Jasper Kooij — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:54:16 +0000

Sometimes things just make sense. I stumbled upon this website by David Seah. David and the series of articles he has written, http://davidseah.com/blog/the-printable-ceo-series/, also contains a little helper called the Task Order Up The idea is simply a visual representation of what’s there to be done. Certainly the Macdonalds where David got the inspiration is a good place to [...]

100 days of learning Ruby on Rails and Radiant CMS

Jasper Kooij — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:04:24 +0000

Ruby on Rails is just so appealing, there just is no way around it! Thanks to some enlightening conversations with a serious Ruby on Rails Themezoom developer called Kelley, I’ve been drawn into DRY (don’t repeat yourself) and Ruby on Rails. The 37 signals book called getting real was an eye opener for me. I’ve been working [...]

Mac Vs. PC - Age old question but more interesting now than ever

Jasper Kooij — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:52:44 +0000

My first computer (don’t laugh) was a msx computer built by Philips. From there I upgraded to my first PC: A Tandon 8088 with 20 MB hardrive and a floppy drive. That thing was heavy and I’ve spent many hours on it looking at the green 14″ screen. Since then I’ve been very true to the [...]

Radiant CMS announces Radiant 0.6.6 - Chiseled Release

Jasper Kooij — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:48:41 +0000

WHAT IS RADIANT CMS? Radiant is a no-fluff content management system made for designers and programmers and is ideal for use on small teams. It is similar to Movable Type or Textpattern, but is much more than a blogging engine. Radiant features: * An elegant user interface * The ability to arrange pages in a hierarchy * Flexible templating [...]

I shouldn’t say but I should say it: get it now or ….

Jasper Kooij — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:46:41 +0000

I’m reading through definitely one of the better books and PR and Marketing by David Meerman Scott, The NEW RULES of MARKETING & PR; it is really a terrific read. Now you would think this is another post about a book review and the answer is yes…..and no. One of the oldest techniques in marketing is [...]

Social Media Marketing Blueprint

Jasper Kooij — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:06:59 +0000

Social media or Web 2.0 is certainly the hype of the new trends in website marketing. Many tools are available to spent huge amounts of time and money into. New target marketing tools are popping up everywhere as the new kid on the block. The network is so overwhelming that no clear structure can be [...]

Drupal 6.0 is released

Jasper Kooij — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:47:10 +0000

Drupal 6.0 was released and I grabbed it immediately! From the Drupal Website: “After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle. These changes are evident in Drupal 6’s [...]