Mikizzi – Web design & Development

Other web project using WP, you can find it @ http://www.matricola78798.it the blog aims to describe a story of an Italian ufficial during the second world war, a tragedy consumed in the middle of a dirty Italian diplomacy that let soldiers without orders and rules “a la mercè” of nazist’s army. The story is enclosed under a historic blog from 1943 to 1945 via wordpress!

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Chembe seeds capital for web, mobile and community ventures in Sub-Saharan Africa, is a tiny project built on wordpress, it takes in count a minimalist web design also orientated to succeed in SEO. Chembe project was realized with very tight deadline almost 3 days of work, happy to know that client likes it.

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Progetto Bandini is an Italian project and it takes in consideration other way to write a romance, in fact everybody can join to write the story, editing  pretty much everything but of course the common sense should not change that much.

This is a wordpress job involved me in designing and developing , this is why I keep using WP , it is really flexible and it can be used pretty much for everything.

Thanks WP

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I was looking some info about how better customize a theme in magento and I have found this really helpful article that expains a technique of course with both advantages and disavantages. I did not mind about those disavantages and I have used in my last project https://shop.perrynulltrading.com/

Here all the details:

In this article, I’m going to be covering what I believe to be a very effective way of modifying the layout of any Magento theme.

For several of the first Magento themes I built, I copied the layout files from the default or blank theme into the custom theme layout folder. I would then modify the layout files directly, editing or commenting out content in files like: catalog.xml, page.xml, checkout.xml, etc… I never liked editing these files directly, as I knew that when it came time to upgrade to a newer version of Magento that had upgraded the layout files, I’d have to merge the changes into the new layout files.

One day, I was digging through the Magento code relating to layout files and discovered a bit of code that made me realize that it was possible to just place a local.xml file in my custom theme’s layout folder and have it loaded automatically by Magento. (this code is on line 283 in /app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Layout/Update.php in the fetchFileLayoutUpdates() method).

Due to Magento’s brilliant tags, it’s possible to do just about anything you want without having to edit any of the default layout files.

Before delving into the code, let’s look at the advantages/disadvantages of this method:

Advantages

• Allows you to upgrade themes without having to merge in changes
• All custom layout changes are centralized, allowing developers to more easily make changes to custom theme elements

Disadvantages

• At first, it’s slower to use this method than hacking up the standard layout files directly
• You will have one more place to look where the site might be pulling code (template phtmls, standard layout files, admin layout updates, AND local.xml)

More info can be found here

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Very interesting design, user friendly and fresh!
I have found myself challenged for this project thanks to oDesk network, design is not mine but I have broken the PSD in W3C standard code  XHTML & CSS providing also some useful Jquery solutions.

After that customized these themes in Magento was a piece of cake, there were only a couple of templates that need to be styled and both sites are pretty similar.
If you want to dig it into these projects here you find CocoaVia and Cirku web sites

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I have found this info @ pod1 which I am glad to share also

The launch of the new Magento website is always an exciting experience. After all the effort so many people had put into the website strategy planning, IA, website designs, development and digital online marketing, it’s finally time to show it to the world and open the floodgates for visitors. This is all great, but as everyone else is celebrating the launch, for Magento SEO specialists it’s just the beginning. There are number of checks and activities which need to be carried out straight after the launch. I list all known Magento SEO tips that are required for launch as well as some optional ones.

Magento SEO Tips 1: Make sure website is visible to search engines – Meta Robots Tag

This really is SEO textbook chapter 1.1. Make sure your website is actually accessible to search engine ‘spiders’. In Magento, you can easily do that by going to Configuration >> Design >> HTML Head and changing the value of Default Robots to ‘INDEX, FOLLOW’. You can test it by inspecting the source code and checking if the meta robots tag shows ‘INDEX, FOLLOW’.

Magento SEO Tips 2: Make sure website is visible to search engines – Robots.txt file

Robots.txt file is a standard text file which should live in the root directory of the Magento site, e.g. http://www.kabiri.co.uk/robots.txt. It includes simple commands which tell search engine robots what to index and what to exclude from indexing. There are many tutorials on the web, e.g. http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/robots.shtml.

You can disallow indexing by adding the URL you want to exclude or the whole path/directory containing URLs you want to exclude to the robots.txt file, e.g. http://www.kabiri.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/7828/category/568 is not indexed because Magento robots.txt file has the ‘Disallow: /catalog/’ command which excludes all URLs within the catalog/ path.

When you launch a new Magento website, good tip would be to make sure that the Disallow command DON’T block the access to the site. Note that the default value of robots is allowing all traffic, unless you block it with Disallow. Read more about it in Magento SEO Part 1 – URLs.

Magento SEO Tips 3: Magento page title optimisation

Another Magento SEO tip is to make sure your Magento category pages and content pages are optimised and include relevant search terms. Read more about Magento SEO Part 2 – Page Titles & Meta Descriptions.

Magento SEO Tips 4: Magento default meta tags optimisation

Go to Configuration >> Design >>HTML Head and fill in the Default Title and Default Description fields. This will ensure that new pages will have a generic but at least well optimised title and description in case you forget to enter the specific page title and description.

Magento SEO Tips 5: Create Google sitemap (sitemap.xml) in Magento

Magento has a great Google XML sitemap generation tool (System > Configuration > Google Sitemap) which allows you to customise pretty much anything there is to customise, including different frequency and priority value for different types of pages. For example, you may want to assign to category pages frequency ‘daily’ and priority of 0.8, but you may want to set those to ‘weekly’ and ‘0.5’ on all content pages.

The tool also lets you configure sitemap generation settings, including how often the sitemap.xml should be updated, at what time during the day and who’s the main point of contact if something goes wrong.

Once configured, all you need to do is go to Catalogue > Google Sitemap and generate a new sitemap.xml file.

Note: The path where you save the sitemap to must be writable – with appropriate server permissions

Read more about Magento SEO – Webmaster Tools & Features.

Magento SEO Tips 6: Install the Magento canonical link element extension

The extension (http://yoast.com/tools/magento/canonical/) is useful when removing duplicate content issues, e.g. issues relating to listings page pagination, when every page, e.g. ‘?p=1’, ‘?p=2’, etc., have the same title and meta description.

The full review of the canonical link element extension can be found here: Magento SEO URLs.

Magento SEO Tips 7: Add Google Webmaster Tools verification tag to Magento

Need to add Google Webmaster Tools verification meta tag to Magento website without having to involve developers in such small and easy task? No problem. Go to System > Configuration > Design > HTML Head and paste your Webmaster Tools verification code in Miscellaneous scripts section. Done!

Magento SEO Tips 8: Add Google Analytics tracking code directly to Magento

The default Google Analytics plugin in Magento provides the basic tracking code. All you need to do is go to System > Configuration > Google API > Google Analytics and enter UA number of you site (as shown in your Google Analytics account settings). This will automatically generate the standard tracking code and add your UA. If you want to start tracking ecommerce data you may need this extension Fooman_GoogleAnalyticsPlus.

Magento SEO Tips 9: Set up Magento Google Base feed

This is definitely one of the optional Magento SEO tips but you may as well set up the Magento Google Base feed straight away as the feed’s history seems to be one of the ranking factors for Google Shopping listings. I created a detailed step by step guide on How To Successfully Set Up Magento Google Base Feed.

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Adroll is an american site about advertisment, I dont want to reduce what they doing by writing their services in my blog, but I can tell you that it was funny building this site.

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This is a very good plugin called TwitMe by Johnny Mast – so you can publish your wordpress posts on twitter automatically.
TwitMe allows you to configure your wordpress blog to automatically send out a tweet notifying your followers of your latest blog post.
here you can find even more information about how to set it up.
If you also want to follow his creator and all the updates about this plug-in go here

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Facebook is the largest social networking platform with more than 250 millions users. It has become the tool of choice for individuals from varied backgrounds and industries. It is not only a networking tool but it’s the best platform for bloggers to promote the blog.

Many Facebook applications; WordPress plugins are available to promote your blog on Facebook.

I mean you can publish cross-posts to your Facebook account automatically from WordPress blog.

Wordbook is a WordPress plugin and it allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.

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Clean, Nice, Easy, another wordpress project!!!
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