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Google is having a busy December. Amid the rumors and the product introductions here are just four news items that seem to stand out. Each topic highlights an important direction or issue for the online search giant....
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Online Trends for e-fulfilment Retailers Look for Alternatives
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DataHub Scripting Puts Live Data into ODBC Databases
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Community Server Tweaks, Latest Posts

Community Server can be a pretty powerful tool if you take your time to setup a decent site for your users.

Here are a few tweaks I've made to SCCAForums.com to make it a bit more user friendly.

On the home page there are sections for active, unanswer, and my posts(if logged in). These controls don't provide much information to the user though, by default only a link and portion of the subject of a forum post.

On SCCA Forums I've setup the controls to display the user who made the last post, link directly to the last post rather than the first post, and also display and link to the particular forum that the post was made in.

To do this you need to add the following script to your default.aspx page.

<script language='C#' runat='server'>

 int getPageNumber(int replies)
 {
  int page = 1;
  if (replies > 14)
  {
   page = 1 + replies /15;
  }
  return page;
 }
</script>

You also need to change the ItemTemplate section of the ThreadRepeater controls to look like the following

<ItemTemplate>
        <div class='CommonSidebarContentItem'>
    <strong><a href='<%# ForumUrls.Instance().PostPaged((int) DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, 'MostRecentPostID'), getPageNumber((int)DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, 'replies')))%>'><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, 'Subject').ToString() %></a></strong>
    - <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, 'MostRecentPostAuthor') %>
    (<a href='<%# ForumUrls.Instance().Forum( ((Thread) Container.DataItem).SectionID ) %>'><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, 'Forum.Name') %></a>)
        </div>
</ItemTemplate>    

More tweaks to come.

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Newsletter
Arjay Web Services has a free web hosting and domain name newsletter. Site and server news, special offers, and web site tips all in one convenient mailing sent once or twice a month (and in emergencies). Old issues are archived. Stay informed. Sign up today.
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Search Engine Optimization Tools
Plenty here, and nicely designed and programmed. A backlink checker, link popularity from MSN, Google and Yahoo!, a metatags generator, multi-rank checker (Alexa and PageRank), multi-server PR checker, PR predictor, speed test, spider view, and much more.
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Free ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 Hosting Now Available at Hosting.com
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How to fix Wordpress comments
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Comparing Amazon EC2 with VPS and dedicated hosting
I’ve been reading all the great things about Amazon EC2 (or Elastic Compute Cloud) and lots of pricing comparisons with VPS and dedicated hosting. I finally got an EC2 account and tinkered a bit and there’s a big difference between EC2 and Virtual Private Server or Dedicated hosting that most of the preliminary write-ups I’ve [...]
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Free Website Uptime Monitoring Services
Catch your web server as soon as it takes a nap next time. There are several free services to help you take a note of your website?s availability.Free website monitoring services send you a message as soon as your site goes down. Be Alert!
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Business Continuity Group Educates Businesses About Digital Disaster Recovery
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TempWorks Software Releases Latest Version of Staffing Platform
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SQL Server 2005 SP1 Release

Wow, this was a quick release, glad to see MS on the ball here for getting a SP out for 2k5 so quickly.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sanchan/archive/2006/04/19/579074.aspx

-         Learn about the new features and improvements included in SP1

 

A ton of new features have been added and a lot of improvements have been made in SP1 for SQL Server 2005.

 

You can learn more about it at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916940/

 

-         Bugs fixed in SP1

 

Refer to KB 913090 (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=913090) for the list of bugs that were fixed in SP1.

 

Note that not ALL bugs that were fixed in SP1 have an associated KB article yet. As pointed out in this KB, you can expect to see more KBs on bugs that were fixed in SP1 in the future.

 

-         Download SP1

 

You can download SP1 for SQL Server 2005 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913089/

 

          Note that there is a separate version for SQL Server Express.

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Similar URL Structure and its importance (www vs non-www versions)
It is commonly known that you can link to your site with www or non www ( http://www.yoursite.com or http://yoursite.com ) as on most of server your site will open with both. So there is no difference from user’s point of view as they will see the same site with both link structure. but the Search engines will treat your website differently if web pages link to http://www.yoursite.com/ or http://yoursite.com/ as they can also be pointed to different destination. Search engine will treat one URL as real and inbound links on the other URL may not be counted. The subject is also known as Canonical URL Issue in Search engine industry.
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Upgraded to CommunityServer 2.0

I've now updated all of my community server based websites to 2.0.

www.sccaforums.com

www.solo2.org

www.stlequestrian.com

and the latest upgrade (last night) www.chrishammond.com

I've still got quite a bit of skinning to do on stlequestrian.com, and hope to implement a calendar on both stlequestrian.com and sccaforums.com later this weekend.

 

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