dotProject - Open Source Project Management for free

Posted by Branko Ajzele under Tools @ 15th NOV 2008

Notice the word free in the title. If something is declared as open source this does not imply it should be free. Take a look at FogBugz. It is, one of the best open source project tracking tools currently available. However it’s quite expensive. Maybe not so expensive to larger companies but for small businesses and freelancers it sure is.

Yesterday I came across dotProject tool. If you are like me and came to PHP from .Net world then your first though might be that this is .Net application due to the “dot” in the title. Well, it isn’t, it’s a PHP powered collaboration tool.

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5 tips on using blogs to create relevant backlinks

Posted by Toni Anicic under Online Marketing, Wordpress @ 10th NOV 2008

Building backlinks is the most important part of SEO work. The only thing more important is how relevant the becklinks you build are. You could actually rank at number one spot on Google for a keyword you don’t have anywhere in your content solely based on your backlinks. This have been proven in practice many times and I have personally done this on several keywords.

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Advanced search in Magento and how to use it in your own way

Posted by Branko Ajzele under Magento @ 8th NOV 2008

It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been working on Magento quite actively last two months. I noticed this negative trend in my blogging; more I know about Magento, the less I write about it. Some things just look so easy now, and they start to feel like something I should not write about. Anyhow…. time to share some wisdom with community

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Online advertisement budgets will continue to grow

Posted by Toni Anicic under Online Marketing @ 6th NOV 2008

Most of the researches show that online advertisement, despite economic recession, will continue to grow. According to IAB’s Internet Advertising Revenue Report, first half of ‘08 was up by 15.2% compared to the same period in 2007. According to the same report, most of the revenue of online advertisement (44%) is generated by search engine advertisement followed by display adds (banners, rich media, digital video, sponsorship) which generated 33%. The last place is reserved (as usual) for e-mail (2%).

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Custom price filter in Magento

Posted by Branko Ajzele under Magento @ 3rd NOV 2008

Quite a few people have asked me for a price filter functionality that comes with Magento. Mostly, the questions are same: How does one put the price filter anywhere on the page? How does one set it’s on price ranges in that filter? What defines default price ranges. Is it possible to set price filter for all my products instead of just single category? Lot of questions. The answer might be simpler then you might think.

There are two ways to approach this problem. Head trough wall or stop and think approach.

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Getting started with iPhone development learning

Posted by Ivan Kalaica under iPhone development @ 2nd NOV 2008

To develop applications for iPhone and iPod Touch, first of all you will need a Mac OS X computer running the Xcode tools. Xcode is Apple’s suite of development tools that provide support for project management, code editing, building executables, source-level debugging, source-code repository management, performance tuning, and much more.

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How to track internal site search with Google Analytics?

Posted by Toni Anicic under Online Marketing @ 31st OCT 2008

Did you know that you can actually track what your visitors are searching for inside your website? We are going to explain you how it’s done via Google’s Analytics tool. It is possible to track your internal site searches if your internal search engine passes the search term in the query string as Google Analytics tracks everything entered in location bar of user’s browser.

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Revolution 2 is launched

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Wordpress @ 30th OCT 2008

Something wonderful happened today. Brian Gardner, the creator of the notorious premium Revolution themes for Wordpress, just released a new set of open-source Wordpress Themes under the name of Revolution Two. All of the themes on the new site will be made available under the open source/GPL license.

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Harvest CO-OP review

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Tools @ 29th OCT 2008

Do you work in a larger team? When a new project comes, it can be quite hard to determine what human resources are available. It is very hard to know what each one of 30 team members has on its queue list. This simple CO-OP online tool makes availability communication issues much easier and faster. We started using it in Surgeworks couple of days ago and it was extremely helpful. Some might have a feeling like they are in online Big Brother, but it is an useful tool.

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Kapitol Reef :: Magento store with 1 product

Posted by Tomislav Bilic under Magento, Wordpress @ 28th OCT 2008

Can online store have only one product? Sure it can and the one is now launched. Kapitol Reef was founded to develop, perfect, manufacture and market a new breed of snorkels based upon pressure-balanced breathing in the aquatic environment. The entire focus for this company is to deliver best-of-class products, starting with the snorkel. Kapitol Reef is in the market for many years and this week they published a new site. Similar to Teraflex project, here we also used Wordpress and Magento platforms for the development.

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