Testing your website design is one of the best ways to determine how well things are working. Testing doesn’t have to be hard either. A lot of times simple adjustments can make a huge difference.
Getting easy inbound links (IBLs) isn’t always the easiest assignment. The most straight forward way is to create good useful content that other users will naturally want to link to. This method is great but it takes time. Another technique for getting easy inbound links is to follow the leader. Just like with keyword research, it’s often suggested that you look at your competitor to see what terms they are targeting. This works the same way for inbound links.
In today’s economy, building and expanding your business is more important than ever, but with limited resources, how can you expand? Reevaluate your company’s marketing strategy and identify areas where you can cut expenses without affecting the quality or marketing opportunities available. For some companies, professional translation services are substituted for cheap machine translations, but the pitfalls of an inaccurate translation can be tremendous.
Cake has a wonderful shell script function built into it called extract that will run through your code and create a .po file full of all of the text contained within your __('My text here') calls. You can then pass these files onto to translators to modify them for your languages. When you want to add variables though, you have to break it up into pieces which may change the context of the phrase. Here's a way around that.
As a result of our current economic state, many companies are looking for avenues to cut costs and achieve the maximum ROI. The following tips will assist you in reducing your translation costs when planning your next international marketing strategy.
I couldn't find any resources on setting up WYSIWYGPro with Cake so I developed this helper along with instructions for total integration with your system. If you've never used WYSIWYGPro, you should check out the demos. I've tried every WYSIWYG editor out there and none of the other ones even come close as far as I'm concerned.
PublishableBehavior allows the use of datetime fields for start and end ranges on content. Included functionality allows for checking published status, toggling to published / unpublished status, and adding conditions to a find to properly filter those results.
In any economic state, every business-minded individual knows that one of the best tactics for growing market share is expanding into new markets. Considering our dire economic situation today, marketing budgets are shrinking not increasing. Because of this, the idea of entering new markets is seen as quite risky rather than advantageous. What can you do when funds are not available for international advertising? Website translation is your most cost effective marketing tactic to reach your foreign consumer base.
Social media is all about getting involved with other members of the community and interacting with them. Whether you’re a cyclist, fortune 500 CEO, or candle maker…social media has a place for you.
While working with the date/time input fields in Cake I got tired of having to select 3/6 drop down boxes to choose all of the date/time information and specifically of having to select 3/6 drop down boxes if I decided to clear the date. A little bit of jQuery will clear this right up though.