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DoFollow-NoFollow?

April 13, 2009 in General News, Plugins, Site Development by admin | 2 comments

In order to better understand the relative merits of moving from NoFollow to DoFollow, I have begun a test on this site.

Basically I am using two new (for me) plugins.

The basic notion is that Lucia’s LinkLove allows for an automatic reset of the default NoFollow for comments to DoFollow, after pre-determined number (determined by me) of approved comments have been added by a given user to this site. The NoFollow Reciprocity module sets and/all comments to NoFollow if the receiveing site has their site set to NoFollow.

Hopefully this test will demonstrate an uptick in this site’s ratings and traffic without a significant additional burden in SPAM.  I’ll post the results of my test, as they become obvious.  If you have ideas of other plugins that I should add to this mix, please let me know.

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We’re Green!

August 20, 2008 in Did you know ..., General News by admin | 1 comment

We are pleased to announce that as of today, our website is “Green”. We have just moved to a new host that certifies a net zero carbon footprint. We know this is not a huge contribution, but every little bit helps.

To learn more about this please visit the Ambient Webs LLC We Are Green page.


HostPapa

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TreeMagic-Cypress & TreeMagic-Banyan Sites

March 2, 2008 in Did you know ..., General News, Plugins, Web 3.0 by mark | No comments

AmbientWebs is pleased to inform everyone that the following sites are now enabled with TreeMagic-Cypress or TreeMagic-Banyan:

Please let us know other sites that are using the plugin… oh and we are also interested in what you might want to see this plugin do next….

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Drop-down menu

February 28, 2008 in General News, Plugins by mark | No comments

Earlier I made some modifications to a WP-plugin for Drop-Down Menus.  I have placed the cleaned up code on this site for any/all to use. You should find it in the Downloads are.

The original plugin is: Copyright 2007 – Zoute snor

css cleaned up and validated by Mark Rabideau — 26 Nov 2007

All rights reserved by Zoute snor. You are free to use this software and redistribute it for free but may not include it in any commercial distribution without prior written permission.

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TreeMagic-Banyan Enabled.

February 24, 2008 in General News, Web 3.0 by admin | No comments

TreeMagic-Banyan

We are pleased to announce that this site is now TreeMagic-Banyan enabled.

In order to invoke TreeMagic-Banyan simply select a word or phrase and double-click. A small popup will appear. Select the “portal” option and a secondary window will open highlighting you query results. The Portal popup is a fully operational Banyan portal. You may conduct additional queries and information investigations from within the new page.

We will be adding additional information resources to our portal site in the coming weeks.

For more details on TreeMagic Banyan read here …

If you wish to contact AmbientWebs with questions or issues regarding TreeMagic-Banyan, please use our Contact page.

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Three cheers for WordPress!

February 10, 2008 in General News by admin | No comments

We are a small group of keen WordPress users who are happy and proud to offer something back to the user community.

We spent a long time exploring the merits of java, hoping its scalability and efficient code protocols would lead us into developing a specialized CMS. What we did not realize was that java makes high demands on server side processing and memory. To run an interactive, dynamic site with high traffic requires a dedicated server with heaps of processing power and even more memory. It’s an expensive overhead. Putting all that back end power into a php platform would provide suerb results also and it did not seem to make sense to pursue the java route without taking a closer look at the php alternatives again.

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