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Florida SEO - Back to the SEO Blog After a Year

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:12:00 -0400

Well I've decided to start getting back to blogging after a year long hiatus. I really don't have a lot to say on this return post except that it's officially been one year since I've done any other writing and I figured that it's time to get back to the SEO Blog. That's It. :-)

Florida SEO » Blog Humbug » Blah Blah Blah

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:43:00 -0400

Okay ... I haven't been blogging too much as most of those that I speak to have mentioned ... Well ... I have to be honest ... I really haven't been interested enough in anything to write ... maybe I'm just being resistant to the "Once a Week" suggestions from the blogging pros ... For what it's worth ... the blog bug has somewhat returned ... so, I'll try to get back to writing at least once a week ... Blog ... Blah ... Blah ... Let's see how long this lasts ... Oh yeah ... Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ... If I don't blog again before their times arrive ... Blog Humbug ...

BlogCFC XML-RPC & Windows Live Writer

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:40:41 -0400

I recently decided to take a shot at creating Blog entries to BlogCFC through a desktop publishing application. ScribeFire, is a nice tool that offers the ability to create Blog posts directly to from Firefox. Yet, it lacked quality functionality and support that is required for those that are doing serious publishing. While searching through the ColdFusion Blogging community lately, I ran across several articles suggesting the use of Google Docs as a method for posting to BlogCFC too. I really didn't care for that method either.

So I managed to find a reference on Ray Camden's Blog to using Windows Live Writer via XML-RPC. BlogCFC has been supporting XML-RPC for some time now, so I was eager to start using it after I figured out what it was actually was capable of doing. For those that are not familiar with XML-RPC, it is a specification that allows connections between two computers through remote procedure calls to XML.

The reference on Ray's site was to a demo from Dan Vega, which explains how to get the writer up and running. Several things have to be pointed out though. First, the categories from BlogCFC are not editable from WLR. To edit those, you'll have to go in to the BlogCFC admin. Second, the style sheets from BlogCFC don't seem to import correctly. That doesn't seem to carry over in the post though so personally I can handle dealing with it. Another thing is, deleting posts from within WLR, will remove the entry from the Blog, but not from the xmlrpc.cfm cache or, rather the ScopeCache.cfm template ... in order to deal with that, you might want to add the code below to the xmlrpc.cfm file, just below the blogger.deletePost case switch statement around lines 185-190.

This way the Blog's cache will update whenever you delete a post ... Much thanks goes out to Shane for that.

All and all, I must admit that editing in WLR is very clean - much nicer than working directly in an online editor, and though WLR does not have the power of a word processor, or the design and HTML editing capabilities of an IDE, it is still a nice tool to use for creating blog posts.

Florida SEO Bringing on Visuals - CFlickr CFC

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:16:00 -0400

I recently decided that it was about time to start adding some imagery to my Blog. I am the first person to go to bat for Content being the King on the web, but straight text content can at times be a little boring to look at. So I went on the hunt for a simple way to add life to my blog.

I found an API called CFlickr, that is written in ColdFusion and provides the ability to work with Flickr's REST API. There are some really cool examples of the things that you can do with the API over at SixFive.

CFlickr's developer, (Chris Blackwell), gives some very good examples of how the API can be used to develop dynamic pages through working with the API. He has even gone through the trouble of setting up the CFC's Documentation.

If you haven't ever worked with ColdFusion Components, there are a few things that you have to do to make sure that the component works correctly. If you are in a shared hosting environment, you will have to ask your host to provide a mapping to the directory where CFlickr is under your web root. Make sure you are careful to get the mapping right ... if you aren't ... you will find out really fast.

I'm not going to try to go in to a tutorial on using the API just yet, but if you are interested in learning more about it, you can get more at the CFlickr Site.

Florida SMO A List SEO

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:35:00 -0400

While cruising around the Social Media Optimization world recently, I found my way to a very cool blog on SMO and SEM ... if you want to learn some inside info into the world of SMO ... check out A List SEO ... you might learn a little ...

SEO BlogCFC Moves In

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:21:00 -0400

This is the greatest... I have been eagerly awaiting the day that I could actually get to put the BlogCFC in to the site ... There were a lot of obstacles to work around to actually get the Blog together. First and foremost was that I had my site hosted at GoDaddy ... I am not much for slinging mud so I'll just try to leave my comment minimal. If you are looking for ColdFusion hosting ... there are much better alternatives to the shared plan that GoDaddy provides. Do your self a BIG favor ... Keep looking. I'm happy to say that though I have only been with my new host for three days, Host My Site has delivered fantastic customer service thus far. Next thing on the development list is to start chopping in to the CSS on this blog and see how well I can style the elements to mirror that of my site ... Well, onward to the world of CSS ... untill next time.