Open Source, Yes or No

The last weeks I spend a lot of time using the open source CMS Drupal. Not the CMS itself, that's really great stuff, but the contributed modules make me a little itchy. The lack of professionalism bothers me. Maybe a tip for the developers of the core, go for quality not for quantity. Organize a quality team, let them check the modules before letting them lose into the big bad world.

Why publish something that isn't working right? "It's all right because it's free". No, it's not all right because it's free. OK, there is no software in the world that's bug free but at least you can do some decent testing in the first place.
Secondly, there barely is a minimal installation guide and almost never a decent manual or some "how-to"s, nothing of the kind. All they do is ask you politely that when you figured it all out by yourself to post your findings in one forum or another.
For solving problems, if your not a decent programmer, you mostly have to rely on one good soul or another who experienced the same problems and luckily found a work-around.

My advise is, if you have time but no money try open source, if you have money and no time to lose buy the commercial stuff. At least you have someone to blame.

Hey, I'm not telling all the open source is bat. I admire all the guys and girls hanging behind their computer all for the greater good of things.

Ciao bambini. Sleep tight.

Yahoo versus Google

I finally found out what went wrong with pinging Yahoo. I had something to do with the rss feed url in the new version of Blogger.

A few days ago I checked the domain www.web4u2.be on Yahoo and yes it was listed and almost fully indexed. No sign of it in Google yet.

Since I live in Belgium and almost everybody searches with Google Yahoo isn't much of a help for me but it was a fine exercise.

We don't do a search anymore we do a "Google". I google, you google, he googles, ....

May your live be prosperous.

Help Wanted! Urgently!

For a few years now I'm looking in into SEO and SEA. The more I'm looking the more I'm loosing my way.

Every day my mailbox is filled with "Do this, do that, buy this, buy that, ...". I think by now I registered with every internet marketing and every SEO guru on the planet earth.

Help! Is there somebody out there who can tell me: "These are the people you should listen to!"
Most of all I begin to understand that most of them are a bunch of buddies with a large subscribers list promoting each others "fantastic" products.

In the meantime I hopefully bought some good books on real paper. I think I'm gone stick with the real books and try their methods.

Except for a few lucky bastards nobody became rich overnight. It's hard work and blood, sweat and tears aren't optional. For the time being I praise myself lucky if I get my bills paid on time.

Ciao bambini, see you on your next virtual visit.

BTW if you come across a "bockereyer" on the net, it's probably me.