Concrete Wind Blog http://www.concretewind.com/blog writings on designing and coding websites Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:20:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Great Article on WordPress SEO http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/ http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:59:03 +0000 admin http://www.concretewind.com/blog/?p=77 This is a very thorough article on how to optimize your wordpress site for search engines:

Yoast.com WordPres SEO Article

Yoast.com WordPres SEO Article

]]> http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/feed/ 0 Essential Guides to Moving a WordPress Site http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/ http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:48:00 +0000 admin http://www.concretewind.com/blog/?p=75 After moving a wordpress site and database files twice in a week, I think I’ve found my favorite tutorials on the subject:

1. Backing up your database with phpMyAdmin and wordpress files

2. If you are moving it to GoDaddy, this is very helpful info for setting up the SQL database and importing your backed-up database from the old wordpress site

3. My final step is a fix for when you redirected to the old site after you have logged into the new site. This tutorial show you how to fix what is probably the issue using phpMyAdmin to configure wp_options in your SQL database. Note: go to the section called “Changing the URL directly in the database” and do all the steps. I was amazed at how much this fixed my issues

]]> http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/feed/ 0 Daily Inspiration: World Builder http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/ http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:10:49 +0000 admin http://www.concretewind.com/blog/?p=73

World Builder from BranitVFX on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/feed/ 0 JQuery Sliders and Image Galleries http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/ http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:55:57 +0000 admin http://www.concretewind.com/blog/?p=69 To learn how I built the jQuery slider on my home page as well as the CPM East site, head over to http://www.serie3.info/s3slider/ and grab the codes. Once you get a hang of it, the s3Slider is ridiculously easy to implement.

Now, there are a lot of flash image galleries out there but you can’t see them on the iPhone and I personally like to be able to tweek the hell out of a gallery with CSS. Here is a killer list of jQuery image galleries that Steve Doll forwarded to me 25 jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials and Plugins

]]> http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/feed/ 0 Daily Inspiration http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/ http://www.concretewind.com/blog/http:/www.concretewind.com/blog/uncategorized/%tag%/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:27:16 +0000 admin http://www.concretewind.com/blog/?p=62 As a designer, I need to be constantly trying new techniques and reinterpreting my vision of the world around me. Thanks to crucible of information that the internet spews, I am able to find inspiration from other creative folks. I will start posting daily inspiration sources here as a way to share what get’s me in the design’n mood.

Today, Smashing Magazing posted a great article on black and white photography: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/09/beautiful-black-and-white-photography-2/

Walking in the Rain

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