Unnecessary Obsession with Word?

I have been working as project manager to help build a website for a local school. There have been various difficulties, not least the obsession by some to send any if not all content in word documents.

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Brightcove Fun & Games

Started working to integrate Brightcove video players with a third party ad agency today. Should be done pretty quickly so there will probably be few points of interest for me to bang on about here. Still, this kind of thing is relatively new so any problems I encounter are probably worth documenting.

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VMWare & Oracle UCM Image Installation

Today I had the pleasure of getting an 15GB image of RedHat with Oracle UCM installed up and running on one of the development boxes we have in a data centre, deep in the guts of the building.

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60 SEO Tips, Tricks & Hacks

SEO is now a critical requirement for any website. Without consideration for SEO, a site cannot expect to compete for vital search traffic. While important for any webmaster, SEO is also a minefield of information, some good and some bad. Not to mention that the things you need to know are hardly ever all in one place.

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Cardboard Website

While working on a big media portal, I redesigned and added functionality to their content management system. This was a big achievement that really transformed the way the editors were able to publish content and so I was inspired to show the client what I had been built in a special presentation where  built the whole system out of cardboard. The highlights of this are above, and the whole presentation is at the end of this post.

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Google Analytics & Drupal

Today I installed the Google Analytics module for Drupal. For those who don’t know, Drupal is a powerful open source content management platform used by a number of big companies including MTV, Sony and Amnesty International.

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