Tim's Blog

Fitness Centre SEO

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

I have just completed some SEO for a client of ours - Hilton Brown Fitness.

NetPotential developers attend the first Auckland Start-Up Weekend. Our team wins!

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Tim, Phill and Vasily have just attended the inaugural Auckland Start-Up weekend. An event that brings entrepreneurs together to pitch ideas and form teams to build a start-up business in a full-on 54 hour event.

Tim and Vas were thrilled to have worked on TaxiSurfer which took first place, and won prizes valued at over $13,000.

Contiune to read more and watch video coverage of the event.

Support Wikipedia

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:00:00 GMT

If you get value from the great information website - Wikipedia, why not donate and help them meet their $6m goal. I have...

Google Chrome

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Google has entered the browser market! The first thing I noticed when opening my browser this morning, was a glaring note on Google asking me to try out their new browser - Chrome.

In the Media - Our Xero Case Study

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT

We are featured on the Xero website, in a case study on the integration of web applications WorkflowMax and Xero for our job management and accounting systems. We love the two applications. What it means for our clients is ...

iPhone from $199. Yeah Right!

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT

I've been drooling over the new 3G iPhone for weeks now. Yesterday Vodafone NZ announced their pricing plans, which were nothing more than a slap in the face.

Sliverlight set to 'light up the Olympics'

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT

I've just read an interesting article on how Microsoft Sliverlight will be used to power live web broadcasts of this years Olympics.

DotNetNuke (DNN) Login control takes focus on page load

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT

By default, the Username field of the account login module takes the focus on page load. This was a problem for a particular website's homepage since the account login module was quite low down on the page, causing it to scroll down when the page loaded. Here's the fix...

.net 3.5 now available on all servers

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:39:36 GMT

Last year Microsoft released version 3.5 of the .net framework. It is now available on all web hosting servers so you can take advantage of the new features available for both ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX

Media Player Classic - set as default player in Vista

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:51:28 GMT

After installing Media Player Classic on windows Vista, I couldn't seem to get it to act as the default video player even though all the settings in windows explorer suggested that it was the default player. Here's how I solved the problem...

Visual Studio 2008 RTM

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:37:25 GMT

Microsoft has Released To Manufacturing (RTM) Visual Studio 2008, a software development platform that I'm sure any ASP.NET developer would be aware of, and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5

Logitech MX700 driver for Windows Vista and Windows 7

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:25:17 GMT

I love my Logitech MX700 which I've had since 2001! When I upgraded to a new Asus G1 running Windows Vista Ultimate I was dissapointed to find that Logitech won't be supporting their MouseWare software on win Vista/7. Here's how I got it working...

TechEd NZ 2007

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:16:13 GMT

I didn't get a chance to go to TechEd this year, thank goodness for techedlive.co.nz

Useful tools for web designers/developers

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT

It's been a couple of weeks since my last blog post - I've been very busy, but do want to make my blog posts regular so here goes another one...

Google XML SiteMap - DotNetNuke component with Provider support

tim@netpotential.co.nz — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT

We've just finished our new website, it's no secret that we're running DotNetNuke - an awesome feature rich, open source web application framework. After launching the site, the next step was to get it indexed by major search engines. The best way to do that is to start by creating a Google Sitemap. I was pleased to find out that the latest version of DotNetNuke came with standard install /Sitemap.aspx file which rendered an XML Google Sitemap. This was great, but it fell short - it didn't map the abundance of content we store in the Blog module. Here's how we got a richer Google Sitemap running, which mapped all pages including all blog/article entries.