Cameron Singe

The art of web development

Cameron Singe header image 4

Finally finished an idea

December 15th, 2008 by
Respond

Sorry its been a while since my first post,

But I have a good reason, i’ve been busy working on a new idea.  So with out further a do, i introduce golf tuts - a free online golf lesson library, I personally found learning golf to be a fairly difficult experience and there is quite a lot of content out there,  however none of seemed to be that good.  It all seemed to be either super long or had a hidden motive like to sell their golf changing training aid.  I guess thats the main reason for developing it, was to give people the ability to learn golf in a straight forward, to the point way.  Developing it was fairly easy and fun, I used google app engine for the backend which relies on python I found it to be very easy to use and I love the purity of the language.  I guess the most interesting and challenging part is making it seo and google friendly.

A few tips i’ve learn’t so far

  • Avoid duplicate or repetitive content, i initially had information based on the category of the lesson, however I have now removed most of it.
  • Make links as human as possible, avoid the old ?=something
  • Google and yahoo take for ever to index initially, best to add a temp landing page just to get the ball rolling.
  • Wait for content before making final layout decisions.  I love to design and mock up designs however until you write the content and see how people react its hard to really create a truly orsm experience.
  • Be patient, like those old hair ads, it won’t happen overnight but it will happen

On another note one thing that I have implemented from the start is a good internal review process.  Creating reports and reminders to review content helps keep the content correct and relevant.

Tags:   · No Comments.

New theme, new start

May 26th, 2008 by
Respond

Woot, hooray New theme. Although not much at the moment, I hope to have code up in the next couple of weeks and random thoughts bi-weekly.

Cheers,

Camo

Tags:   1 Comment