A Piece of Our Mind

The Ultimate Ecommerce Reference Guide Part 1: Maximizing Your Store’s Usability

John Paul Narowski — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:50:16 +0000

Over the last decade, Ecommerce applications have evolved into a highly competitive art form - needing more than just a simple product listing to succeed. Thankfully, years of experimentation have allowed us to analyze and distinguish the successful Ecommerce techniques from the not-so-successful ones. This article is the first of a three part series [...]

Getting Started With DoFollow Link Building

John Paul Narowski — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:33:04 +0000

Recently, there's been a movement amongst bloggers to remove the NoFollow tags from comments posted on their blogs (What is NoFollow?). Removing NoFollow tags allows link juice from the URL included in your comment to be passed on to your site, helping it move up in rankings. This post will help explain how to locate [...]

Establishing Your Brand’s Legacy

Ian Wilson — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:31:17 +0000

When it’s your job to promote and nurture the brands of your clients, developing and promoting your own brand can often be an even tougher job. As people, we tend to define ourselves and those around us by what we do. It’s only natural, but when you begin to define your brand around what [...]

Change Is In The Air

Julie Cameron — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:58:51 +0000

Well, it’s been one very busy summer here, at MetaSpring! Unfortunately, we were forced to go on a bit of a blogging hiatus in order to keep up with everything, but we’re back now and we’re doing better than ever! These last few months have given us the opportunity to re-examine our goals [...]

Will You Follow the DoFollow Movement?

John Paul Narowski — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:16:08 +0000

What is Nofollow, Dofollow? Nofollow is an attribute that can be added to a hyperlink preventing Google from passing link credit to that site rel=”nofollow”. Link credit is one of the major factors Google considers when determining how authoritative your site is. You will these tags on to blog comments, and on sites like [...]

5 Ways Your Business Can Embrace Micro-blogging

Julie Cameron — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:45:22 +0000

As more and more people flock to these strangely addictive platforms, businesses are looking for ways in which they can participate, as well. Clearly, the biggest opportunity for micro-blogging in business is public relations, but I’ll be offering up a few other applications as well.

Using Rails Migrations as part of a Simple Installation Script

Carson Keith — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:00:24 +0000

Rails Migrations provide an easy way to make versioned revisions to your database structure over a period of time. When used properly they can make it easy to make modifications to your existing database programmatically as you need to make changes. This is extremely helpful for large up-and-running projects, but what about projects [...]

Foreign Key to Foreign Key Relationships and Single Table Inheritance in Ruby on Rails

Carson Keith — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:31:59 +0000

ActiveRecord is great and efficient for simple normalized databases, but once you start tread off the beaten path ActiveRecord starts to lose a lot of its mojo. A few months ago I had a rather abstract database that utilized a number of models based on Single Table Inheritance (STI). Prior to refactoring our our database [...]

Welcome to the MetaSpring Blog

Julie Cameron — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:10:17 +0000

Hello, and welcome to the new MetaSpring blog where we’ll be discussing a wide range of topics - from internet marketing and SEO tricks to web development trends and code snippets. You’ll most likely even find posts about philosophy, music, and the arts, since those are just a few of our core, creative inspirations. The [...]