Archive for August, 2005

Free Beer

August 15th, 2005 by Sarah King
tui beer chick

But only Tui!

And only in New Zealand

And only this Wednesday

And only if you cut out their ad from your local paper!

And congrats to the marketing girls, a great piece of viral marketing!

A simple little seo game!

August 12th, 2005 by Sarah King

Children and their games, huh? Over on seo-guy there’s a veeery long thread which has spawned an SEO contest on about page 27!

Our goal is to see who can get the best ranking for the phrase “simple seo” on Google Read the rest of this entry »

Title Tags give SEO advantages

August 11th, 2005 by Sarah King

Title Tags are hugely important from an SEO perspective because Search Engines use them to identify the major focus of the page.

They are, however, frequently overlooked when coding up new modules as they can be hard to integrate with modularised headers.

Mambo makes it dead easy. Read the rest of this entry »

Essential change to Blogger Templates

August 11th, 2005 by Sarah King

I love blogs, love reading ‘em. However Blogger blogs have a major flaw in their templates when it comes to the links to the single page posts. Some of the templates have addressed it but in the older blogs the problem still remains.

Take a look at Spam Bank and you’ll see that the heading for every post is a link and the footer information includes the heading. Take a look at most other blogger sites and it won’t be. That causes problems when the posts are long, you want to make a comment, or return to read comments and it’s really hard to find the end of that post.

Well, read on for the solution… Read the rest of this entry »

Vorb Mobile launched

August 11th, 2005 by Sarah King

This doesn’t really affect me with my ancient old 025 phone but congratulations to Tama for tackling the opportunities provided by Vodafone New Zealand’s 3G network.

Vorb is an excellent site for NZ Mountain Bikers and I probably visit more often than I ride (not that that says much ;) )

Check out:

Mambo Templates

August 11th, 2005 by Sarah King

I’m trying to put up a quick mambo site for the Waitakere BMX club. I like solar flare but wanted something a bit easier on the eye for this site so went hunting for free templates.

Below is a list of some of the sites I found helpful along the way. I’m really grateful to all those who make templates available! Read the rest of this entry »

Aspartame (E951) detox?

August 10th, 2005 by Sarah King

I went to a talk recently with Damian Kristof, an Australian naturopath practicing in both Australia and New Zealand. Like many before him he had a wee rant on the evils of nutrasweet and it’s active ingredient Aspartame. Given that my diet coke consumption is epic I decided that perhaps I needed to find out more… Read the rest of this entry »

Indigenous DNA search

August 10th, 2005 by Sarah King

From a letter to the editor in today’s Herald in response to an opinion piece last week: Raymond Bradley: Charlatan tohunga alive and kicking Read the rest of this entry »