Ryan Jauregui

I am pleased to announce the official release of services and community by Geek!Coders, the development and design end of DotResolve Consulting. Here is a snippet from the website to give you an idea of what services are offered by Geek!Coders:

Geek!Coders strives to create turn-key web-based applications so our community can take advantage of our knowledge and research. All of our applications are and will always be resource efficient, easily configurable, and highly expandable.

We also provide custom programming and script installation services, even if the program is not ours! We have experience installing programs such as WordPress, SugarCRM, phpBB, etc. and are willing to assist with installations for a nominal fee.

Geek!Coders offers competative pricing on custom PHP/MySQL programming and program installations. Check it out, bookmark it and refer to it if you ever need anything custom written. Do not forget to join the community!

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Greetings!

Man has the time passed rather quickly or am I just crazy? Things have been so busy, crazy and overwhelming, it seems that I have made little progress with my projects.

So… I have been working with Smarty on my phpZIPdir project as mentioned in my prior post Beginning Development with Smarty. I must say that I really do love that template engine! I have rewritten my code on The Gutter Directory, truthfully I only have about 80% of the code fixed/completed, but by following the “Why Use Smarty” page I am quite sure that I have removed all application logic from the templates which will ultimately make phpZIPdir a fully functional, turn-key application.

I still have a lot more work to do to get phpZIPdir into a release state, but I have read the Smarty Documentation about 2 times through, so I am beginning to really grasp everything that happens behind the scenes, which helps me understand the line between Designers and Coders.

I hope to have some time to code within the next couple of weeks to get phpZIPdir into a release state so strenuous public testing can occur. I will update again when I have made such progress.

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I have helped with a few projects in the past couple years which have used the Smarty template engine as a backbone for their template/presentation framework. It is really useful in projects and scripts because it keeps the PHP code separate from the design of the website. You can read a detailed overview of Smarty at the official website.

Like I stated before, I have helped troubleshoot/design for projects using the technology, but I never really sat down to learn more about Smarty, but today I found some time to continue development on my phpZIPdir project (which I have not touched since the initial code write), so I decided it is time to get Smarty integrated so the product can finally get to its public beta testing stage. I fiddled around with the setup for a couple hours and read the documentation to get myself started. Through quite a bit of trial and error, I have successfully integrated Smarty into about 65% of the phpZIPdir project thus far. Once you get the hang of the syntax it is really easy to move forward.

Once I finish phpZIPdir I will open it up for a public beta, and hopefully I will find a few good testers. I will post more about it when the time comes. I urge anyone interested to in phpZIPdir to take a look at The Gutter Directory to see the latest version in action (with Smarty 65% integrated -although you will not really be able to tell from the front end!). I would like some feedback on it if possible!

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This past week I have been busy going to customers places of business to help them with their computer and network issues. This has been one of the most busy weeks I have encountered in a while, but it seems to be a continuing trend. This is good, but stressful at the same time.

On my free time, mainly at late hours of the night, I have been working on my web development. One of my project sites , Geek!Coders, consists of web software that I have developed in PHP. The project that I am proud of, although it is not near its first release, is my piece of software entitled “phpZipDir“. Live demos can be found at my niche directories IT Consultant Directory and Gutter Directory. I want to focus more of my time developing my phpZipDir project so that I can get in into first release stages and hopefully detract some users from the competition.

Another item I have been working on is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I have applied some basic SEO techniques to most of my websites and my client websites.

Here is a list:

• DotResolve Consulting
• Geek!Coders
• IT Consultant Directory
• Gutter Directory
• National Rain Gutters
• Henry’s Parts Depot

I understand there is a multitude of factors that go into SEO which can help you get a better placement within Google, but there is no way to guarantee results. There are many companies who make a living by saying they guarantee number one results in Google for only USD$1500/mo! I have saved at least one of my customers the trouble of spending that sort of money for no guarantees.

Personally I have a decent track record with getting higher rankings in Google (and the other search engines) for most of the websites I work on. I am planning on offering SEO consultancy as one of my services in the near future. I can guarantee it will not cost you USD$1500/mo. but I cannot and will not guarantee you will get a number one search ranking on Google. I can get you close to it though!

Anyway, that is my update / rant for the day.

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