The time has come to re-brand this site!
As a company we are doing more development, WordPress and social network work these days, and whilst we still do a lot of marketing with AdWords, we need a new website that works better for us.
So, we’ve bought a new domain name: necessarymaterials.com, but how do we re-brand and keep all the nice link juice and SEO flowing? We need to maintain all of the Sky Rocket posts and traffic under this new brand and domain name.
If anyone has any tips or tutorials for this, please let me know in the comments…
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The Google map app is easily one of the most useful apps on the iPhone. Indispensable when getting driving directions, and much better than a paper map or an annoying Garmin or TomTom unit. However, the big drawback is you need a good internet connection to use it. Which can be especially painful when overseas, where data roaming charges can cost a small fortune. The map app downloads a lot of images so you can quickly blow through hundreds of dollars if you use it heavily. Well, here is a quick tip to allow you to cache your maps for offline reading and save some money when abroad.
Google driving directions cached for offline use
The iPhone has a really neat screen grab feature. Simply press the home and power button together at the same time to make a picture of the entire iPhone screen. The image will be saved to your photos app. If you do this when using the Google map app you effectively record your maps as images into the photo app library. They can be viewed again when en-route to your destination without any need for an internet connection.
Here’s an example:
So, Google driving directions from home and screen grab the pages you need before you leave. Who needs a Garmin if you have an iPhone?
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google driving directions,
iphone
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This website is currently using a WordPress theme called Thesis, but unless @pearsonified has a change of heart and stops violating the WordPress GPL license, we will cease using Thesis on this website and all other websites under our control.
We are now actively looking for alternative themes. We have mainly been using Thesis to sketch out sites and build mock-ups for clients, so we’re looking for another GPL compliant theme that does the same. We are currently looking at Canvas, Genesis and Hybrid. If you have other suitable suggestions, we would love to hear about them!
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Gravity Forms is easily one of my favourite WordPress plugins. The developer license is a bargain at $199 USD, because you’ll find all-sorts of uses for it on all-sorts of websites.
Gravity Forms for WordPress is a full featured form builder plugin that features a drag and drop interface, advanced notification routing, lead capture, conditional logic fields and the ability to create posts from external forms. Version 1.3 adds support for conditional form fields. This means you can show or hide a field or entire sections of the form based on a value selected in another field. And the address field for 1.3 has several new options. Choose from US, Canadian or International address types, set the default state, province or country and toggle field visibiltiy.
Recently we used Gravity Forms to build a real estate listing form on Barbados Property List. You can see the finished form here. It took about an hour to build this form, and we didn’t get our hand dirty with code once. Gravity Forms allows you build the forms from a user-friendly drag ‘n’ drop interface.
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Dashboard Widget
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Notifications
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Embed Form
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Confirmation Querystring
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Post Category
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Post Image
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Role Management
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Reply To
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Limit Entries
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Schedule Forms
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Predefined Choices
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Dynamic Field Population
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Enhanced Address
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Enhanced Post Custom Field
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Notification Routing
We used to use a free plugin called TDO Mini Forms, and whilst it was pretty good, it does not compare to the professional functionality and support you get from Gravity Forms.
I find it mind-boggling what you can achieve these days with Content Management Systems and plugins. There is far less-need to write bespoke code to build a website these days if you understand the functionality a quality CMS like WordPress. Spend less time talking to nerds and more time designing websites. Gravity Forms is a powerful way to add even more functionality, that wasn’t really possible before without learning a server side scripting language and database.
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