- finally after nearly 4 months of waiting, we now have a faster and more reliable pldt connection! #
- great books http://800ceoread.com/jack_covert_selects/list_year/2010 #
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
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.
Datablitz - Philippines software and computer books store (Design and Development using PHP)
Allen Sportswear - New design, improved customer experience (Design and Development using CakePHP and Flash Actionscript (AS) 3)
Digital Renaissance - Web design company in the US (Wordpress, Flash AS 3 and flipbook integration)
- finally launched new website for allen sportswear! http://www.allensportswear.com #
- HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI http://bit.ly/1p0Wi (via @deanhunt) #
- rand fishkin on url length and search ranking http://bit.ly/1NojR #
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




