Just recently, we had a problem with a CI site not recognizing a sitemap.xml. Tried searching through the net but can’t find any solution to it. Turns out you just need to upload it to the root and  a simple editing of the .htaccess.

Here’s the edited .htaccess line:

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt|sitemap\.xml)

Web Design, Development, Flash Animation, Wordpress CMS

www.acrendo.com

Wordpress/Joomla Web Developer

Optimind Technology Solutions, one of the top Web Design and SEO companies in the Philippines, is now accepting a lot of Wordpress and Joomla related projects. The projects require design, plugin and module customization. Beyond having deep experience with the Wordpress platform and its plug-ins (or Joomla and its modules), the ideal candidate will be a savvy, all-around web applications developer who is comfortable in a LAMP environment.

While the web developer’s primary responsibility will be to manage, develop, and enhance the various Wordpress (or Joomla) websites, it is expected that his/her responsibilities can and will expand to other technologies and areas of the site depending on the developer’s specific skill set and interests.

This position is in the web development team of Optimind.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years expertise in hand-coding HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and DHTML across a range of browsers
• 2-3 years experience programming in PHP
• 2-3 years experience developing and maintaining Wordpress blogs
• Enthusiasm for emerging technology, especially AJAX and Web 2.0 APIs
• Ability to weigh editorial and design concerns against technical constraints

Optimind Technology Solutions is committed to a policy of providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation or disability.

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• personalized search on google pull up sites that have higher traffic. time to think viral. #
• just added steve krug’s new book to our library! can’t wait to receive it! #

• finally launched new website for allen sportswear! http://www.allensportswear.com #

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During the late 90’s, Geocities is the biggest site offering free web hosting, in exchange of Banner Ads. Back then, hosting is expensive so most people, especially those who have personal sites chose to just sign up for a Geocities account. Most web developers who started then must know this site. It’s like blogger or wordpress circa 1995.

Just this morning, I read a news that Yahoo is shutting down Geocities even if it still gets 10M unique visitors per month. This news is a bit saddening for me because most of my college memories are stored somewhere in one of my classmates’ geocities account. I still look at their Geocities sites once in a while from a compiled list of links from our college class website (courtesy of Tripod, another Geocities-like site in the late 90s and developed by myself back in college).

Gone and going away with Geocities are animated Gifs, Netscape Navigator, Best works with Nestcape button (or Bets works with Internet explorer button), Netscape Composer (the very first website editor I used), ICQ (first IM I used), IRC addicts, lots and lots of

tags for layouting, bevel button effect and many more.

Goodbye Geocities! I will never forget the long but useful geocities web address in the 90s.

As part of Marikina City, Optimind is grateful for not being affected by the flooding caused by typhoon Ondoy. We are helping out Ondoy victims in Marikina and Cainta area. We have toured around evacuation centers yesterday to give out food and water and found out that they are in need of clothing. For anyone interested to help, please text 09178000171 or 09228975841. We will pick up clothing donations from the following area and bring them to evacuation centers around Marikina and Cainta:

• Katipunan
• Banawe
• Cubao
• Libis
• Caloocan
• Novaliches
• Quezon Avenue
• Timog Ave
• West Ave.
• E. Rodriguez
• Greenhills
• Horshoe
• Tandang Sora
• Congressional
• Mindanao Ave.
• Visayas Ave.

Here are photos of Ondoy aftermath near our office:

local parish

road that most of our employees take to get to
marcos highway from riverbanks

sm marikina access to parking

sm marikina driveway

people covered with mud became common
because of ondoy

local park

car swiped by flood and now tilting on a post
just in front of the firehouse near the city hall

Ondoy’s Trail of Fury from Glenn Omanio on Vimeo.

THIS POSITION IS FOR GRAVEYARD SHIFT ONLY (11:00PM - 8:00AM). WE OFFER A VERY ATTRACTIVE RENUMERATION PACKAGE.

Location: Marikina City, Philippines

Responsibilities:

• Work with US client and provide support for web development projects
• Quick updates on revisions for projects
• Communicate with US client and relay messages/tasks to Philippine support team

Requirements:

• Web developers with at least 5 years experience.
• Very good English communication skills (will be on conference calls with US clients)
• Ability to work graveyard shift. (8am – 5pm PST / 11pm – 8am Philippine Time)
• Has done projects using Joomla, Wordpress, AJAX and CodeIgniter (or CakePHP)

For more information about our company please click here.

* This position is not open to newly graduates with no related work experience.
* Please submit your resumes and sample work to careers [at] myoptimind [d o t] com.