A friend of mine just forwarded me this video by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper), and I enjoyed it so much that just had to break my DBD blogging silence to share it here.

The song lays out, with some…

I recently stumbled upon Stuart Bruce’s “Top ten ways not to choose a social media consultant“. Bruce offers some solid advice for anyone looking to hire a consultant, advisor, or otherwise “expert” in the social media field.

My favourites:

• They describe themselves…

As a Web design professional, I am often asked by clients if I can help them with search engine optimization (SEO), to which I almost always say “not really”, and then spend 20 minutes typing out the information I am…

Just stumbled upon this list of humorus taglines for the newly “officially named” Windows 7 and thought I’d share. The list contains more than this, but I wittled it down to my top 20:

• Windows 7: We heard it’s a lucky number
• Windows…

I’ve been using Drupal quite a lot recently, and one of the things that was bothering me was the Recent Comments block. It’s excellent that Drupal includes this functionality right out of the box, but that it offers no way…

One of the first posts I wrote on this blog was a tiny little script that detects whether your visitor is using a particular version (or less) of Internet Explorer and then redirects them to a page explaining that they should…

Man, since I released SEOSimple v1.2 a few weeks ago I’ve learned a massive lesson - WAY too many people are still using servers that employ PHP4 - the php engine that was replaced with PHP5 four years ago.

For anyone that…

As some know, Dao By Design doesn’t just create sites for others, we began with and continue to develop sites for ourselves, generally based on my wide-spanning interests.

One such site is the Hao Hao Report, a Digg-like social bookmarking/link sharing…

Close on the heels of the release of v1.1 I’m releasing v1.2 of the SEOSimple Joomla 1.5 plugin.

I’ve just tweaked a few things to better support UTF-8 encoding, word wrapping of the descriptions and better handling of the Section and…

Just a quick note to say that version 1.1 of the SEOSimple plugin has been released. This was just a quick release to add some additional front page title tag configurations.

You can now totally and independently control your Joomla 1.5 front…