SEO and Marketing

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/15 9:58:56
• JMorris

Much better! Many thanks. A little tweak of the colors and that will definitely do.

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/15 1:08:46
• david

Thank you both!

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/14 17:26:06
• skenow

Have a look - I've used the background from McDonald

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/14 12:25:03
• McDonald

Sorry, linked to the wrong image in my previous post.
Here's the correct link to the Twitter background (dimension: 1920x1707px).

http://members.chello.nl/rengelsman/icmstwit01.jpg

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/14 9:19:28
• McDonald

Probably not the best, but simple:

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/14 4:05:55
• bleekk

I like the idea and I would like to do that, at least to try it, but unfortunately I have no time this month. maybe next month there is more time ...

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/12 16:00:10
• McDonald

Quote:

The background on my Twitter page was created with TwitBacks.

Instead of having the background applied automatically by TwitBack I saved the background picture first to my hard drive, opened it with Photoshop and removed the TwitBack logo before I added it manually to my Twitter page.

The picture has a dimension of 1920x1707, instead of 1024x768 from the article.

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/12 15:01:48
• JMorris

Awesome! That will go a long ways to help!

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/12 14:22:48
• skenow

Here's an article with some dimensions for Twitter page elements - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/04/29/how-to-create-your-own-twitter-background/

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/12 10:51:52
• JMorris

Good suggestion, but that design doesn't lend itself well to twitter. Keep in mind there are static elements on Twitter you have to work around. A derivative of that design perhaps, but even then you have to accommodate for the wide variety of resolutions (netbooks?)

This is free promotion on Twitter, one of the most visited sites in the world now. Our twitter page is targeted directly at ImpressCMS users who will need a nice design. This will get the designer much exposure.

Don't be shy gang... Throw some more ideas out there! :D

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/11 13:51:43
• david

The PDF can be found on the CMSX page here: http://www.impresscms.org/content.php?page=ImpressCMS_at_CMSX

Re: Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/11 13:47:56
• david

Great idea

But as a suggestion - there's the excellent presentation material we put together for the CMSX show - the design of that would match very well with the current site design ...

But perhaps a new one ready to go with the site redesign could be worked on as well

Custom @ImpressCMS Twitter Design Needed

• 2010/5/11 13:32:19
• JMorris

Hey gang!

Currently, the ImpressCMS Twitter profile is using one of the lame default twitter profile designs and doesn't even remotely reflect our community and the outstanding pool of talent it contains. In the interest of helping the project stand out and attract more users, we'd like to have a custom background and color scheme developed for the project's twitter profile.

To thank the designer, as is the case with nearly all custom twitter designs, the designer is welcome to discretely include the following caption in the design to help gain some exposure for their work....

"Twitter Theme By: http://yourdomain.com/"

This can be placed horizontally or vertically, as long as it's discrete enough to not overpower the ImpressCMS branding.

The main requirements are thus:

* The design and color scheme MUST compliment current ImpressCMS branding
* It should incorporate visual queues that instantly help users understand *WHAT* ImpressCMS is
* It should look highly professional and modern
* It MUST be reasonably lightweight (background file size)

Any takers? It's free advertising! :thumbup:

Re: site.com/content.php?page=XXX to site.com/XXX

• 2010/3/18 17:36:58
• Will

Well, it is very easy in Drupal because they have a common handler "index.php"

so index.php?q=node/123

which with a little htaccess magic can be easily made into

node/123

then they also have path aliases - which allow you to do

some/path = node/123

then there is a contrib module that gracefully forces and access to nodes with existing alises to their alised path.

its so pretty... and I would love to do this for ICMS... but - we need aliases, we need them to be stored in the db - and we need the header to check the url for known aliases, and serve up the associated page - otherwise its a big old waste of time because everyone is gonna want different url structures.

http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/path
http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
http://drupal.org/project/path_redirect

Re: site.com/content.php?page=XXX to site.com/XXX

• 2010/3/18 9:53:49
• debianus

Those tips works on 1.1.3, but for 1.2.1, what is the key? Any help? I tried add modules to

but no success (my skills about rewrite are a joke)
More: seems that if there are a good solution for this matter, perhaps could be SEO for all IPF modules?
If this matter for content module would be solved, iCMS SEO out the box? (Looking for WordPress and Drupal way)

Re: how can I ranked my keyword fast in google ?

• 2010/2/2 5:37:14
• sato-san

done

how can I ranked my keyword fast in google ?

• 2010/2/2 2:48:08
• richardjome

*Spam post and sig links deleted*

Can someone please move this account into a spammer group, thanks.

Madfish.

Re: Email newsletters: HTML vs plaintext quandry

• 2010/1/21 7:38:25
• fiammybe

you might check out some HTML mail styling guides. Not all mail clients (Outlook 2003/webmail) has the same support for HTML tags.

You can find an extensive list of things to check out at http://www.anandgraves.com/html-email-guide

Re: Email newsletters: HTML vs plaintext quandry

• 2010/1/20 21:37:44
• Madfish

Ok HTML it is, the provider also allows a plain text alternative version to be sent with it.

I tried putting together a nice 2-column layout, but it doesn't render that well in email clients. So I'm dropping back to a simple single column design without images.

There's 2,000 people on my list so if it doesn't work well I guess I'll be hearing about it :)

Re: Email newsletters: HTML vs plaintext quandry

• 2010/1/20 19:57:32
• skenow

According to what I've read for best delivery to the most inboxes, email newsletters are best sent as both HTML and text. I kind of like to have both - the text version can't cloak links as easily.