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November, 2007 Archive

Free Beer at PubCon = Free Access to Raven SEO Tools

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Scott and I soon will be on our way to PubCon Las Vegas 2007. We are simple men with a simple need — to obtain cold beer at little-to-no cost. In return for cold beer, we will give the beer provider six months free access to Raven SEO Tools (when we start charging for it [...]

Posted in Conferences, Humor, Just for Fun | No Comments »

“CSS Based” Showcases Raven Website for Design Quality

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Since launching Raven (Sitening’s premier SEO Toolkit) earlier this week, the website continues to gain recognition for Shelly’s modern and elegant design. CSS Based, a project providing Web designers a database of well-designed CSS based websites from around the world, is the most recent design showcase website to feature Raven.

Posted in Company News, Web Design | No Comments »

CSS Mania Features Raven SEO Tools

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

CSS Mania, one the Web’s most respected showcase sites for CSS design, today is featuring Sitening’s Raven SEO Tools.
Raven is the professional version of Sitening’s free search engine optimization tools. Our public beta version launched - please try it and let us know what you think.

Posted in CSS, Company News, Web Design | No Comments »

Sitening Celebrates Turkey/Tofurky Day

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Sitening’s office will be closed on Thursday and Friday to celebrate Thanksgiving. Have a happy holiday!

Posted in Company News | No Comments »

Avoiding the Digg Effect on Textpattern: How to Install Page Caching

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Textpattern is a fast content management system (CMS). In fact, many tests have shown it to be much faster than its competitors, like WordPress. However, it’s still a CMS, which means its content is dynamic and it requires a connection to a database to serve complete pages to a Web browser. That can be a [...]

Posted in How To, Open Source, TextPattern | 3 Comments »

The End of Stag Hunting

Friday, November 16th, 2007

It used to be that conducting a search for “sitening” in Google would result in Google asking you if you meant “stag hunting.” As always, I would say to myself, “no, I didn’t mean stag hunting you stupid #$*@(# search engine!” Although the first result was always our website, that nasty did you mean [...]

Posted in Commentary, Google | 1 Comment »

How to Install iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 on iTunes

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Apple made their iPhone firmware update available to the public before making it available via iTunes. The file itself weighs in at 160MB and can be downloaded here: iPhone Firmware 1.1.2
The only problem has been the lack of information on how to install the giant file. Although many people have linked to the file, a [...]

Posted in Apple, How To | 15 Comments »

Tan Joins Sitening as Web Developer

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Jason Tan has joined Sitening as Web developer.
Prior to Sitening, Tan was a research assistant and Ph.d. candidate at Vanderbilt University. He worked with the The Teachable Agents Group, (affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Software Integrated Systems). Tan contributed by researching and developing AI-based educational technology [...]

Posted in Company News, Press Releases | No Comments »

12 Steps for Creating Beautiful HTML Code

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

There’s been a movement in the past several years to cleanup HTML code. Messy markup has contributed to rendering bugs, difficult maintenance and also poor search engine performance. For example, using HTML that doesn’t display the data (content) semantically can have a severe impact on a website’s SERPs.
Using modern HTML is not difficult to do. [...]

Posted in How To, Web Accessibility, Web Design | No Comments »

Review of Flock 1.0 - Get Your Flock On!

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Having never heard about Flock before, I was curious to see if it was just another browser jumping on the social networking bandwagon. Being a dedicated Firefox user, taking advantage of its rich user experience at work and at home, Flock will have to work its pants off to get me to use it as [...]

Posted in Commentary, Review, Web Browsers | 1 Comment »