Chris Jacoby

Chris Jacoby

Chris is an Information Systems Engineer who has great experience with the online web world. His strengths lie in website application development, user friendly website design and development, graphics design and website optimization. 

Nothing is impossible! ~Chris


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Want to submit a form without having to reload or refresh the current page you're on? jQuery can help you achieve this, and this kind of functionality is something we see more and more every day on modern websites. The first thing I wanted to learn about jQuery when I first started using it a few years back, was how to submit and retrieve information without having to reload a page.

In this tutorial I want to show you how you can submit a form using the jQuery framework. Basic PHP programming knowledge is required for the server side posting.

enhance-site-with-livechatRecently I found this great product that allows visitors on your website to chat with you live on your site. Does your company have a sales department or a support department, or do you have the need to chat with your visitors live? This product can great assist you or your company in turning visitors to your site into potential paying customers. This product is called Live!Zilla and can be found at www.livezilla.net.

This month I had the pleasure of integrating LiveZilla into our own website, www.gofishclientcatchers.com, and into some of our Gold clients’ websites - www.bestbeach.co.za, www.beachtag.co.za and www.howlo.co.za.

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 07:57

Avoiding Duplicate Content

Search engines consider http://www.gofishclientcatchers.com and http://gofishclientcatchers.com two different websites. As a result, if your website has been linked to from other websites using both of the two URLs, you are effectively splitting the potential benefit of valuable link popularity.

The Solution

You can use a 301 redirect on the "non-WWW" version of the URL which is basically a permanent redirect in simple terms. You can pretty much consolidate all your link popularity to a single, straightforward URL. This will help to increase your site's chance of obtaining and maintaining good rankings, especially with major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo.

codeigniter-v2If you haven’t been so busy writing your next big thing, then you probably heard about the upcoming major release of CodeIgniter which jumps directly from 1.7.2 to 2.0.

For those of you who don’t know what CodeIgniter is: CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP MVC framework built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured and powerful web applications. View CodeIgniter’s website for more information.
facbook

Facebook is offering up a set of plugins (also known as widgets) and they call them Social Plugins. These plugins can be used on any web page to make that a bit more like Facebook in a way. There is a Like button plugin, a Recommendations plugin that shows what other pages people's friends are reading, an Activity Stream plugin that shows a simplified version of the visitor's personal Facebook news feed, and a Facebook Bar, a toolbar site owners can float at the bottom of the screen that serves all of these things at once.

How to add the Like Button plugin onto your site.

Step1: Create an Application and Get App ID

You will need to create and save your new application on Facebook and save/copy the application ID. Create a Facebook application here.

Step2: Build and get XBFML code Customize your like button and copy the XBFML code.

Thursday, 15 April 2010 09:09

The Uncapped ADSL War – Let Loose the SEO

Earlier this month a few of the leading ISP companies in South Africa launched their new uncapped ADSL services at an affordable rate. This is great for us South Africans! Below are these mentioned ISPs.
  • Afrihost – Starting at R197 per month
  • Mweb – Starting at R219 per month
  • Axxess – Starting at R196 per month
  • MyISP – Starting at R159 per month
  • @lantic – Starting at R339 per month
Orignial Design and Development
When designing a new website, designing a new logo for your company or writing content for your new website or blog, it is important to be ORIGINAL. You don’t want to end up with a website that looks exactly like that of your competitors (this can easily happen when purchasing templates off of existing sites) and you don’t want to get punished* for duplicating another website’s content.

Let’s focus more on being original when creating content for your website for SEO purposes.

Search engine optimisation has changed over the years and search engines are growing much more concerned with original content. Although nobody knows the exact algorithm for the major search engines, it has become very clear that original content is rewarded by increased page rank, and duplicate content is punished* – sometimes quite severely. Duplicate content is content that is identical to material found on another website.

*Punished – Yup, Google almighty and other major search engines will punish your website if you duplicate another website’s content thus lowering your search rank.

Some websites that pull RSS feeds from other websites or news services might seem to hide away from the duplicate content issue, but there is always more to a site than just RSS feeds. The more original content on a page, the more highly it is regarded by search engines. If any portion of a website contains content that is seen elsewhere, the owner can expect the subsequent penalty.
Sunday, 28 February 2010 12:10

Video Optimization for Websites

Pros of having video content on your website:

If you have a blog or website with articles or posts, you can add a video to be unique and set yourself apart from other websites and from your competitor’s websites. More and more people love to watch video as compared to reading text. YouTube is great example of this. Adding videos to your website can greatly increase your target audience and increase traffic to your website.

Video explains better and it’s easier to understand the concepts you are trying to portray. It will attract many visitors to your site. For example if you have launched a new product or service, you can run you own little video advert on your website easily allowing visitors to watch and learn about it. With videos on your site, you are able interact with your visitors in a much stronger, more direct way. Secondly, if you want to develop your personal brand, video could help with that.


Email marketing has been around for a while and is still one of the cheapest ways to communicate. Email marketing will definitely increase your business’ target for online audiences when used correctly. When marketing through email, you need to comply with federal regulations that affect all commercial enterprises. If this is done incorrectly it can get you company listed as a spam abuser and will affect your marketing strategy and your business negatively.

When done correctly and the message to your target audience is crafted aptly, email marketing can help you deliver the right content to the right prospect at the right time in the selling cycle and continuously achieve high response rates from quality prospects.
Sunday, 07 February 2010 07:16

SEO and Online Marketing Misconceptions

Many people when they hear the terms Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Online Marketing immediately think possible short term investment and a quick way to increase their online business sales or increase their website traffic. They think that rankings happen quick, that they only have to do it for a month or two and that using SEO software should do the trick. (This is a big no no!) You as an investor in your own business should know that only from hard work can you reap what you sow; there is no quick way to jump the ranking queue with SEO.
Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing
Many people when having a website designed or developed don’t even know what SEO is for and what it does, but let us tell you if you’re planning to have an online business or need to use your website as an online advertising portal to attract potential customers, Internet Marketing and SEO are vitally important.

We have had experience with clients saying that they don’t need SEO (for the obvious reasons of not understanding what SEO does) or that they have a “friend” that will handle the SEO for them…SEO is a full time job which requires constant monitoring and updating, most times this is more than friends are willing to do. If you stop doing SEO work a site, you will soon notice a decrease in traffic and online sales. There is so much to learn every day and the industry changes all the time, the complexity of search engines rules have changes drastically over the years.
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