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Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

Deploying Sculpin Sites to GitHub Pages

I wanted to be able to use Sculpin to generate GitHub pages. Here's what I did...

Created a super awesome Sculpin site from the Sculpin Blog Skeleton
Make sure everything is under version control in my master branch (except things that shouldn't be. see the .gitignore)
Updated publish.sh:

#!/bin/bash

This won’t get into setting up multisite in wordpress, but it will help you set up multisite domain mapping on a grid server from media temple. If you need to see a good intro article on setting up multisite mode in wordpress, check this article out or this article for a good multisite .htaccess intro.

First, install WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin, and follow the instructions for setting that up.

Now, to add a new domain to media temple that will show up on your site, the big catch is to redirect this domain to the existing main domain.

For example, originalsite.com is the main root domain, and I am going to create newsite.com.

Add the domains you’d like to use (newsite.com in this example) as alternate domains in the AccountCenter.
Log into your (gs) via SSH, move into the domains direc

External SEO

External SEO is concerned primarily with how your website is being linked or referred to.

Backlink Profile

Your backlink profile plays a huge role in helping the search engine to understand the quality and trustworthiness of your site.

If a link is from a high quality website, it's likely to be seen as a vote of trust, likewise if the link or the linking website is of a low quality it can have a negative effect. So, with that in mind it's important to make sure where possible that your links are of as high quality as possible.

Links from external websites always play an important role in determining how valuable one website is in comparison to another. Where possible, it's recommended that any external links are altered to reference the new destination URLs. This will save a search engine having to go through a redirect before reaching their final destination, and can therefore mitigate negative effects of additional load speed, algorithmic damping, etc.

	<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteBase /prerender-test/

	# Virtual/pushState URIs (requests not matching an existing file get forwarded to index.html)
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
	RewriteRule .* index.html [L]

	<IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>

	# Change YOUR_TOKEN to your prerender token and uncomment that line if you want to cache urls and view crawl stats
	# Change http://example.com (at the end of the last RewriteRule) to your website url

	<IfModule mod_headers.c>
	#RequestHeader set X-Prerender-Token "YOUR_TOKEN"
	</IfModule>

	<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On

	<?php
	// change vars here
	$cf = 1; // set to 1 if you are using cloudflare
	$debug = 0; // set to 1 if you wish to see execution time and cache actions
	$display_powered_by_redis = 0; // set to 1 if you want to display a powered by redis message with execution time, see below

	$start = microtime(); // start timing page exec

	// if cloudflare is enabled
	if ($cf) {

	// api/controllers/AuthController.js

	var passport = require('passport');

	var AuthController = {

	login: function (req,res)
	{
	res.view();
	},

	<?php
	/**
	* Inflector for pluralize and singularize English nouns.
	*
	* This Inflector is a port of Ruby on Rails Inflector.
	*
	* It can be really helpful for developers that want to
	* create frameworks based on naming conventions rather than
	* configurations.
	*

	/**
	* Welcome to Pebble.js!
	*
	* This is where you write your app.
	*/

	var UI = require('ui');
	var Vector2 = require('vector2');

	var main = new UI.Card({