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Venture Skills is a New Media company based in the UK, their blog is a mix of Drupal, Reputation management and Search engine marketing and optimisation. The primary contributor is Tim Nash who is the co-founder of Venture Skills.

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  • Spare a thought for the outcasts

    Posted on Saturday October 20th, 2007 at 05:41 in SEM, accessibility, promotion, drupal, open-source, moodle

    I have had my hands full working on a Moodle an open source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) site this is not the first time I have worked with Moodle but I never had to attempt to optimise a moodle site before merely administrate it. We are spoi...

  • Are you really an SEO?

    Posted on Thursday August 23rd, 2007 at 11:31 in accessibility, xss

    Sorry for the long delay I’ve not been away and have been blogging elsewhere but have gone through a period where I feel I have had nothing to say about SEO or Drupal. Part of the problem with being one in a crowd is that you need to scream to be h...

  • Re-captcha your comments

    Posted on Monday July 30th, 2007 at 09:02 in Privacy, spam, accessibility, drupal, captcha, recptcha

    Comment spam sucks, its as simple as here at Venture Skills blog we get hundreds of spam a day most are caught by Akismet but not all are. If your hosting your own blog or site then no doubt you have tried many combinations. One simple method of redu...

  • Page not found again! 404 in depth

    Posted on Tuesday July 24th, 2007 at 04:44 in search, accessibility, apache, iis, site, errors, 404, 410

    I was chatting to a friend the other day about his newly created site (it looked really sweet) and I was looking at the CSS (very neat) but misstyped the URL my whole world came down no literally not only was he using IIS to host the site he had no...

  • Cloaking is ok says Google

    Posted on Friday July 6th, 2007 at 11:43 in css, search, flash, accessibility, blackhat

    A recent Google Webmaster blog post finally put the last nail into the coffin with regards to content substitution or to give it the demonic blackhat term Cloaking… A technique like sIFR still lets non-Flash readers read a page, since the conte...

  • 5 Accessible and pretty CSS tips

    Posted on Saturday May 5th, 2007 at 10:26 in css, accessibility, site

    We are in the last few bits of the new site and while designing it a major focus has been on accessibility and not just for search engines. For us accessibility is built into the design its about reaching as many people as possible and giving as many...

  • Are Flash only sites the SEO Devil?

    Posted on Thursday April 19th, 2007 at 09:42 in search, flash, adobe, accessibility

    Nothing gets up the semantic web developer lobby noses more then the bane of their lives Flash. After spending months developing perfectly semantic well formed XML compliant HTML some upstart art herbet comes along and ruins their day by showing the...