Posts Tagged ‘news’

We decided to convert the blogs on our other commercial sites from Blogger to WordPress, and have done nearly 10 conversions including several clients, as well. The experience of exporting Blogger content presents a series of technical challenges getting everything converted and properly imported into WordPress.

The reason for moving from Blogger to WordPress is that our blogs and many for our clients were self hosted and published through Blogger via ftp. Blogger announced earlier this year that ftp publishing support was being discontinued (first date was March but extended to May 1, 2010). To maintain better control our advice was moving to the WordPress platform.

WordPress and Blogger are different. Blogger uses labels instead of categories, plus may truncate file names sometimes dropping words like “the” or “and” in favor of mostly key words from the blog post title. In addition, redirects from the old file names for labels, archives, and some posts were needed for the new WordPress version to avoid page not found errors.

Based on our experience and the desire for maximum control of site content, our first choice for new blogs will continue to be WordPress in the future.

While checking traffic stats today and following one referral search, we learned a website hosted on DreamHost servers had scraped 39 pages of content from the blog section of one of our websites. The response time was excellent from DreamHost in reply to the Copyright Claim and DMCA Takedown Request.

Graphics, photographs, and video were hotlinked to files on our hosting account, so the offending party added insult to injury by draining bandwidth as well as copying the xhtml code and blog text verbatim.

DreamHost autoreplied to the request in 3 minutes, and then a person emailed a reply within 2 hours to report the infringed content had been removed from their servers.

A big thank you to DreamHost for their prompt action, and to attorney Carolyn E. Wright who posted her tutorial and advice on Blackstar Rising entitled How to Send a DMCA Takedown Notice.

Fight back if you encounter copyright violations of your intellectual property, yet make sure to fully document facts as outlined in the post linked above. Keep in mind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA, is a United States law, so readers outside the USA may need a different approach to ensure compliance.

Many owners go beyond their web design and matching blog content with a Twitter account for online business promotion without developing a brand awareness Twitter strategy. As in a custom cms web design or blog, site owners are encouraged to plan first before jumping into Twitter.

A new article by Custom CMS Design LLC owner Jim Degerstrom was published earlier today and is entitled “Danger Running Twitter on Autopilot” as featured on the Build Your Own Business article directory.

Here’s an excerpt from the article warning about automatic content feeds on Twitter:

You can tell an account holder is using a robot if their posting method is entirely API, Twitterfeed, or another RSS format. This means tweets are generated and put in queue to “drip feed” into their public timeline to show activity when in fact follower interaction is probably not being monitored.

Twitter is social media. The purpose is to socialize with your followers. The moment you choose efficiency over being personal, you dilute the value of being on Twitter. When people reply to an automated tweet or ask a question they won’t get an answer until a real person checks for replies.

Trust our team when it comes to advice about custom cms web design, blog design, search engine optimization, and Twitter strategy. View a list of Jim’s articles as a Build Your Own Business Top 25 Author out of 595 contributors, and then email us to begin discussing your brand awareness Twitter strategy.

If you own or manage an older version of a WordPress driven website or blog, the team at WordPress warns you MUST upgrade to the most recent version v2.84 because of a SERIOUS security threat taking place now.

In the announcement WordPress warns readers to upgrade immediately before reading their complete post it is that serious. Consider this comment from the official WordPress post linked above about upgrading:

If you are using a WordPress version after 2.7, the nag screen on the WordPress Administration Panels will alert you to upgrade. If you are using an older version, upgrade now. Don’t know what version you are using? Without a nag screen to tell you to update, you’re using an old version. Checking the Administration Panels footer will help, but don’t waste time looking. Just update now!

For our clients who have a custom WordPress blog designed and managed by us, your blog is not affected! Rest assured your WordPress installation was already at v2.84 before this virus attack began. In addition, we use automatic dBase backups as added security to avoid any recovery problems if needed in the future.

The main website of Custom CMS Design LLC of Kissimmee, Florida, was released today with content on custom cms design services, an about us page, seo or search engine optimization services, and a contact us page. Here is an excerpt from the About Us page:

Custom CMS Design LLC is a Florida corporation formed in July 2009 offering custom cms web design related services. The owners are Jim Degerstrom from Kissimmee, Florida, and Roger Degerstrom from Midlothian, Virginia USA. Jim and Roger are a father and son team.

Custom CMS Design LLC is operated as a virtual online corporation for collaboration on custom web design related websites that includes custom cms web design: services, advice, franchises, and an online school.

With the release of our main custom cms web design services (.com) website, the rest in the series that include 3 other websites for cms web design advice (.info), cms web design franchises (.net), and an online cms web design school (.org) will be developed and released later in 2009.

Content will continue to be released on the main site which is also the headquarters as well as the commercial site for offering custom cms web design services. News for all 4 sites will be announced on this Custom CMS Web Design blog.

During testing of the layout of our main custom cms web design website and custom matching blog, we decided on a Custom CMS Design LLC blog prelaunch to activate the blog.

The main site graphics, sidebar, and navigation match precisely and the look will carry over into the entire family of custom cms web design related websites including this .com domain and then .net, .org, and .info.

This corporate news blog is entitled Custom CMS Web Design, and each of the 4 websites in the group will have related themes covering a different aspect of the cms web design services niche within our core business of custom cms web design.

If you stumble upon this post and are anxious to learn more about our progress developing these 4 websites, subscribe to the rss feed or email us from any page. Your patience is appreciated as we look forward to adding more content soon.